Catastrophe, Memory and Identity: Al-Nakbah as a Component of Palestinian Identity

Sa’di, Ahmad H.

doi:10.2979/isr.2002.7.2.175

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“…Although the main theme of the curriculum for Jewish schools focuses on national content, the curriculum in Arab schools has been sanitized of any national content. For example, the Nakba ('catastrophe' in Arabic), which represents for Palestinians the loss of the homeland in 1948, is ignored by the Jewish-Israeli narrative (Sa'di 2002). In 2011, a new legislation, known as the Nakba law, prohibits any state institution or state-funded organization to mention the Nakba and hence infringes on the Palestinian-Arab minority's right to free speech and equality with regard to its historical memory.…”

Section: The Palestinian Citizens Of Israelmentioning

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Passing as hybrid: Arab-Palestinian teachers in Jewish schools

Sion¹

2013

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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In this paper I examine how Arab-Palestinians who teach Arabic in Jewish schools appropriate performative identity strategies through passing as hybrid to gain inclusion into the schools. The paradox is that although these teachers are recruited specifically because they are Arabs, they are expected by teachers and students to conceal their Arabness. I argue that because of the ethno-national bright boundaries in Israel, which do not encourage integration but hybridization into roles defined by the state, Arabs cannot and mostly do not want to pass as Israeli-Jews but as good Arabs who do not reside beyond the binarism Jew/Arab but are in-betweens.

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Section: The Palestinian Citizens Of Israelmentioning

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Passing as hybrid: Arab-Palestinian teachers in Jewish schools

Sion¹

2013

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…The 1948 establishment of the Israeli state was a contentious issue in the Arab world. Described by Arab peoples as ''Al-Nakbah'' (catastrophe), 1948 represents to Palestinian peoples the loss of their homeland, the disintegration of society, the frustration of national aspirations, and the beginning of a hasty process of destruction of their culture (Sa'di, 2002). Arabs made up the majority of inhabitants of Palestine prior to 1948.…”

Section: Arab In Israeli Contextmentioning

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Mental health help-seeking among Arab university students in Israel, differentiated by religion

Al‐Krenawi

Graham

2011

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

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“…In the last two decades we have had major contributions by Palestinian authors, many of whose accounts have been based on oral history of the refugees themselves and 'social history from below'. Palestinian authors have also been producing data and memory accounts of the Nakba (Masalha 1992;Sanbar 1984;1994;2001: 87-94;Khalidi 1992;Abu Sitta 1998;Al-Azhari 1996;Sa'di and Abu-Lughod 2007;Sa'id 1992;1999;Ashkar 2000;Cabaha and Brazilai 1996;Wakim 2001;Badil 2001;2002;2002a;2003a;al-Qalqili 2001), compiling and recording oral history and encouraging annual commemorations designed to preserve the memory of the catastrophe, while emphasising the link between refugee rights, collective identity and the challenge of return.…”

Section: Internal Refugees and Nakba Commemoration: Articulating A Nementioning

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Remembering the Palestinian Nakba: Commemoration, Oral History and Narratives of Memory

Masalha

2008

Holy Land Studies

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This year Palestinians commemorate the 60 th anniversary of the Nakba -the most traumatic catastrophe that ever befell them. The rupture of 1948 and the 'ethnic cleansing' of the Nakba are central to both the Palestinian society of today and Palestinian social history and collective identity. This article explores ways of remembering and commemorating the Nakba. It deals with the issue within the context of Palestinian oral history, 'social history from below', narratives of memory and the formation of collective identity. With the history, rights and needs of the Palestinian refugees being excluded from recent Middle East peacemaking efforts and with the failure of both the Israeli state and the international community to acknowledge the Nakba, '1948' as an 'ethnic cleansing' continues to underpin the Palestine-Israel conflict. This article argues that to write more truthfully about the Nakba is not just to practice a professional historiography; it is also a moral imperative of acknowledgement and redemption. The struggles of the refugees to publicise the truth about the Nakba is a vital way of protecting the refugees' rights and keeping the hope for peace with justice alive.

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Catastrophe, Memory and Identity: Al-Nakbah as a Component of Palestinian Identity

Cited by 75 publications

References 8 publications

Passing as hybrid: Arab-Palestinian teachers in Jewish schools

Passing as hybrid: Arab-Palestinian teachers in Jewish schools

Mental health help-seeking among Arab university students in Israel, differentiated by religion

Remembering the Palestinian Nakba: Commemoration, Oral History and Narratives of Memory

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