This year Palestinians commemorate the 60th 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.
About this Journal
The Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies (formerly Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal) was founded in 2002 as a fully refereed international journal. It publishes new, stimulating and provocative ideas on Palestine, Israel and the wider Middle East, paying particular attention to issues that have a contemporary relevance and a wider public interest. The journal draws upon expertise from virtually all relevant disciplines: history, politics, culture, literature, archaeology, geography, economics, religion, linguistics, biblical studies, sociology and anthropology.
The journal deals with a wide range of topics: ‘two nations’ and ‘three faiths’; conflicting Israeli and Palestinian perspectives; social and economic conditions; religion and politics in the Middle East; Palestine in history and today; ecumenism, and interfaith relations; modernisation and postmodernism; religious revivalisms and fundamentalisms; Zionism, Neo-Zionism, Christian Zionism, anti-Zionism and Post-Zionism; theologies of liberation in Palestine and Israel; colonialism, imperialism, settler-colonialism, post-colonialism and decolonisation; ‘History from below’ and Subaltern studies; ‘One-state’ and Two States’ solutions in Palestine and Israel; Crusader studies, Genocide studies and Holocaust studies. Conventionally these diversified discourses are kept apart. This multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary journal brings them together.
Editors and Editorial Board
Editor
Professor Nur Masalha, SOAS, University of London
Founding Editors
Michael Prior (1942-2004) and Nur Masalha
Editorial Board
Stephanie Cronin (Oxford)
Ilan Pappé (Exeter)
Yasir Suleiman (Cambridge)
International Advisory Board
Nahla Abdo (Ottawa)
Faiha Abdulhadi (Ramallah)
Ismael Abu-Saad (Beer Sheba)
Tayseer Abu Odeh (Amman)
Naim Ateek (Al-Quds/Jerusalem)
Oren Ben-Dor (Southampton)
Haim Bresheeth (London)
Saad Chedid (Buenos Aires)
Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts)
John Docker (Sydney)
As’ad Ghanem (Haifa)
Sherna Berger Gluck (Long Beach, CA)
Mary Grey (Winchester)
Tahrir Hamdi (Amman)
Dina Matar (London)
Peter Mayo (Malta)
Duncan Macpherson (London)
Karma Nabulsi (Oxford)
Eiji Nagasawa (Tokyo)
Dan Rabinowitz (Tel Aviv)
Rosemary Radford Ruether (Berkeley, CA)
Ahmad Sa'di (Haifa)
Rosemary Sayigh (Beirut)
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (Al-Quds/Jerusalem)
Martin Shaw (Barcelona and London)
Salim Tamari (Bir Zeit)
Akira Usuki (Tokyo)
Salim Vally (Johannesburg)
Oren Yiftachel (Beer Sheba)
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