Throughout the entirety of world history, we can see racism played into the mass relocation of entire groups of people. One of the best-known and most drastic cases of this is known as the Palestine Nakba. The word, Nakba, translates from Arabic meaning “disaster,” it is the term used to define the “exodus” of the Palestine people in 1948. Born from Zionist ideology, majorities of the Palestine people were kicked out of their homes and relocated in order to make room for a Jewish State. In Nur Masalha’s book, “The Palestine Nakba,” she discusses the methods that were used to try to cover up this wound in Israeli history, and refers to it as, “memoricide.” She also goes over how we can keep the memory of the tragic events alive. The events of the Nakba can be closely related to the war in Palestine, which occurred at the tail end of the 1940’s. This war brought a resurgence of Zionist groups; “The 1948 war was presented by the Zionist leadership in messianic terms as a ‘miraculous cleaning of the land’” (Masalha 68). Zionism appeared in the late nineteenth century as a national revival measure, but now refers to the events of the Nakba. Zionist groups worked to sustain and restore Jews to their original homeland in Palestine.
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In the last twenty years, Palestinians that remain in Israel have started to challenge the erasure of their history. Such as, Nakba Day, celebrated on May fifteenth every year, “has been more widely commemorated by this community than in the previous four decades” (242). Masalha suggests the making the People’s Nakba Memorial Fay a day to be recognized Nationally. She also suggests projects such as the creation of a Nakba museum. In my personal opinion, the most beneficial way to hold onto the memory would be to include in the history curriculum taught in schools. It needs to be talked about, denying its existence will get no one
In the last twenty years, Palestinians that remain in Israel have started to challenge the erasure of their history. Such as, Nakba Day, celebrated on May fifteenth every year, “has been more widely commemorated by this community than in the previous four decades” (242). Masalha suggests the making the People’s Nakba Memorial Fay a day to be recognized Nationally. She also suggests projects such as the creation of a Nakba museum. In my personal opinion, the most beneficial way to hold onto the memory would be to include in the history curriculum taught in schools. It needs to be talked about, denying its existence will get no one