Anziska, S;
(2019)
The Erasure of the Nakba in Israel's Archives.
Journal of Palestine Studies
, 49
(1)
pp. 64-76.
10.1525/jps.2019.49.1.64.
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Abstract
A 2019 investigation by the Israeli NGO Akevot and Haaretz newspaper has uncovered official suppression of crucial documents about the Nakba in Israeli archives. The Journal is publishing print excerpts and a full online version of the buried “Migration Report,” which details Israel’s depopulation of Palestinian villages in the first six months of the 1947-48 war, a document that clearly undermines official Israeli state narratives about the dispossession. In methodical fashion, this report provides contemporaneous documentation of Israeli culpability in the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and the systematic depopulation of so-called Arab villages in the first six months of the war. Alongside a discussion of key revelations in the newly available document, this introduction situates the broader pattern of erasure within historiographical debates over 1948 and questions of archival access. It examines how accounts of Israel’s birth and Palestinian statelessness have been crafted in relation to the underlying question: who is permitted to narrate the past?
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Erasure of the Nakba in Israel's Archives |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1525/jps.2019.49.1.64 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1525/jps.2019.49.1.64 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10085594 |
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