Miracles and Snow in Palestine and Israel: Tantura, a History of 1948

Confino, Alon

doi:10.2979/israelstudies.17.2.25

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“…The events of the Nakba occurred before, during, and after the 1948 war between Jewish armed forces, located in what was then the British Mandate over the colony of Palestine, and local Palestinian–Arab forces alongside the armies of neighboring Arab countries. As such, it is a politically charged term for events with widespread, long-term consequences that affect the lives of both Palestinians and Israelis to this day (Confino, 2012; Kimmerling and Migdal, 1993; Manna, 2017; Morris, 2001; Pappe, 2007).…”

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Political ‘apptivism’ in the Middle East: The case of iNakba

Golan

Tirosh

2019

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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The use of social media in the Arab world has drawn an increasing amount of scholarly attention. Research addressing ‘Arab Spring’ upheavals and Islamic military movements has demonstrated grassroots level and often spontaneous uses of social media platforms. However, little attention has been paid to political apps as an emergent means of communication. Specifically, this study asks how users and developers view the use of political apps within the Israeli–Palestinian context by focusing on iNakba – an app that enables users to navigate Palestinian villages that were destroyed during the 1948 war and its aftermath. Ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative analysis of interviews with iNakba users and developers uncover three key facets of the app: (1) crowd mobilization, (2) educational tool that reanimates the invisible landscape of pre-1948 Palestine, and (3) promoting the Palestinian narrative. The study illuminates the role of political apps as agents of change for identity building and shaping users’ political consciousness.

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Political ‘apptivism’ in the Middle East: The case of iNakba

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Tirosh

2019

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“…The Nakba also had far-reaching social consequences. The memory of the Nakba, the Palestinian “foundational past” (Confino, 2012), became a mobilizing force that promotes political activism and consolidates a coherent national Palestinian identity (Masalha, 2012; Sa’di & Abu-Lughod, 2007). Numerous Palestinian political organizations correlated the private longing for the old village home with the national Palestinian aspiration for a sovereign state and independence (Milshtein, 2009).…”

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“…The iNakba is a tri-lingual—Arabic, Hebrew, and English—mobile application based on GPS navigation technology that helps people to remember and learn about the Palestinian Nakba. The Nakba (in Arabic, “catastrophe”) is the Palestinian name for the events that took place before, during, and after the 1948 war between Jewish armed forces and local Palestinian-Arab forces supported by the armies of neighboring Arab countries following the withdrawal of British Mandate from the colony of Palestine (Confino, 2012; Morris, 2001; Pappe, 2007).…”

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iNakba, mobile media and society’s memory

Tirosh

2018

Mobile Media & Communication

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The iNakba is a new mobile application that allows users to locate, and learn about, Palestinian villages that were destroyed during and after the Nakba, the consequences of the war between Jewish forces and local and external Arab forces following the withdrawal of British Mandate from the colony of Palestine in 1948. As such, the iNakba, as a new mobile application, is a mnemonic device utilized in a heated memory contestation that exemplifies how contemporary technological capabilities operate as a reminder for a society that seeks to forget. This study reveals that when marginalized groups struggle for recognition in society’s memory sphere, while capitalizing on contemporary media’s unique characteristics, they benefit from the blurring of the familiar distinction between communicative and cultural memory (Assmann & Czaplicka, 1995). The unique characteristics of new media create a new opportunity to make many more narratives and group memories known, officially organized, and mediated for mass audiences. These new memory affordances may contribute to establishing a culture of just memory that takes into consideration memory ethics and promotes the “duty to remember” the stories of the oppressed and marginalized.

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“…9 Some scholars understand what happened as ethnic cleansing (Masalha, 1992; Pappe, 2006). Others interpret the Nakba as a case of forced migration (Bessel and Haake, 2009: 1–12; Confino, 2012) to offer a less contentious framework to further historical debates, not least because using the term ‘ethnic cleansing’ causes ‘reflexive denials’ in the Israeli mainstream (Confino, 2012: 39). Some Jewish Israelis fully acknowledge the Palestinian losses and suffering of 1948.…”

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Entangled suffering and disruptive empathy: The Holocaust, the Nakba and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin

Fischer

2020

Memory Studies

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Discussions of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict are rarely far from the topic of the Holocaust, often taking the form of competitive victimhood, as supporters of both sides politicize the memory of the genocide for their political gain. In her 2010 novel Mornings in Jenin, Palestinian–American Susan Abulhawa interweaves a Palestinian narrative of history – including the Nakba, that is, the destruction of historical Palestine in 1948, the ongoing conflict and the Israeli occupation – with Holocaust memory. By acknowledging rather than minimizing or denying the Israelis’ cultural trauma, she takes a stance of empathy, which researchers consider a prerequisite for peaceful conflict transformation. I contend that Mornings in Jenin exemplifies how cultural texts not only provide a space to explore how new mnemonic links are being drawn up against contested and reified national narratives in Israel/Palestine but also play a political role by performing a narrative that acknowledges the cultural trauma of the other side.

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Miracles and Snow in Palestine and Israel: Tantura, a History of 1948

Cited by 26 publications

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Political ‘apptivism’ in the Middle East: The case of iNakba

Political ‘apptivism’ in the Middle East: The case of iNakba

iNakba, mobile media and society’s memory

Entangled suffering and disruptive empathy: The Holocaust, the Nakba and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin

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