Israeli and Palestinian Memories and Historical Narratives of the 1948 War—An Overview

Sela,; Kadish, David

doi:10.2979/israelstudies.21.1.1

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“…The year of the Nakba holds significant importance in the Palestinian people's history, representing a momentous disruption in the continuous progression of historical events and the passage of time in Palestinian history (Masalha, 2009). Also, 1948 is considered a significant event in the Middle East, particularly for the Israelis and Palestinians who were directly involved (Sela & Kadish, 2016). Israel's initial engagements with the Arab world were characterized by upheaval, originating from the dispute over Palestine under Ottoman rule and intensifying during the British Mandate, and culminating in the 1948 war (Zisser, 2023).…”

Section: : Palestine-israel War (Nakba) and Palestinian Refugee Crisismentioning

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Media Portrayal of Child Refugees in Photographs during Two Distinct Historical Events: The Nakba in 1948 and the Syrian Civil War in 2015

Alghamdi,

Alotaibi

2024

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This paper investigates the media portrayal of child refugees in photographs during two distinct historical events: The Nakba in 1948 and the Syrian Civil War in 2015. It focuses on the evolution in representations of child refugees in journalistic photographs at different times. The study draws on various sources, including archival photojournalism and academic literature, to analyze photographs from these two periods. The 1948 photographs, mostly of Palestinian children, reflect themes of vulnerability and disempowerment amidst the Nakba, a significant event in Palestinian and Middle Eastern history. These images often portray refugee children in the context of their families, highlighting the human ramifications of conflict and displacement. In contrast, the 2015 Syrian Civil War photos, particularly of Alyan Kurdi and Omran Daqneesh, display a stark difference in media representation. These images, capturing individual suffering, garnered global attention, prompting political and humanitarian reactions. The paper argues that while the Kurdi photographs temporarily disrupted degrading discourses, they alone cannot fully depict the depth of the crisis. The paper concludes by noting significant shifts in media portrayals of refugee children over time, emphasizing the importance of both humanitarian and political perspectives for understanding these representations. This analysis contributes to the discourse on the media portrayal of refugees, highlighting the impact of visual media in shaping public perception and political response.

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Section: : Palestine-israel War (Nakba) and Palestinian Refugee Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Media Portrayal of Child Refugees in Photographs during Two Distinct Historical Events: The Nakba in 1948 and the Syrian Civil War in 2015

Alghamdi,

Alotaibi

2024

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“…The elderly still carry the memory of their displacement, but the documentation and transmission of these memories to the younger generations has been complicated. On the one hand, due to political pressures from the outside (Israeli Military Rule) and inside (the Palestinian National movement), these memories became infused with political agendas (Masalha, 2005;Sela & Kadish, 2016). On the other hand, many of these memories had been silenced and suppressed.…”

Section: Arab-palestinian Citizens In Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the past decade, the Arab-Palestinian narrative of the 1948 war has been gaining renewed scholarly attention (Masalha, 2012). Oral history projects are being launched, recollections are being documented, memoires are being written and researched (Sela & Kadish, 2016). For example, Sorek (2015) investigates the development of collective memory and national commemoration among the Palestinian citizens of Israel.…”

Section: Arab-palestinian Citizens In Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing Cultural Competence through Children’s Literature in Training Educational and Psycho-Social Professionals

Mirsky,

Hayik,

Shmuel

2023

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Present day educational and psycho-social services deal with broad cultural diversity. Educators and psycho-social professionals need to become culturally competent to be able to work with people from different cultural backgrounds including race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, etc. To be able to do so, it is important to cultivate cultural competence among these workers, the perquisites to which are the awareness and acceptance of differences between people as well as reflection upon their own attitudes and feelings. To create a profound and long-lasting effect of the training, creative and experiential teaching methods are often applied. This paper describes the use of children's books in academic training for cultural and context awareness and presents two training modules. The application of this methodology is demonstrated with university students in social work and with students in an Arabic-speaking teachers' college in Israel.

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“…Nakba commemoration among Palestinians and in Israel in general is conflictual and power driven. Palestinians living in Israel, for example, carry a unique position in Palestinian society, as they are able to commemorate the Nakba in physical proximity to where it actually happened in present-day Israel, where exiled Palestinians are not allowed to set foot (Sela & Kadish, 2016). However, as Israeli citizens, their memory processes operate under complex and contested interactions.…”

Section: Commemorating and Negating The Nakba In Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, as Israeli citizens, their memory processes operate under complex and contested interactions. What for Palestinians living in Israel is a catastrophe, for Jewish Israelis subscribing to the Zionist ideal, is the fulfillment of a dream and a redemptive moment (Sela & Kadish, 2016; Sorek, 2015). As such, a zero-sum game between the narratives exists (Sorek, 2015), as for many Jewish Israelis “even the slightest symbolic gesture [of reminding the Nakba] raises the fear of entering a slippery slope that would end Jewish national sovereignty” (Sorek, 2015, p. 8).…”

Section: Commemorating and Negating The Nakba In Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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Israeli and Palestinian Memories and Historical Narratives of the 1948 War—An Overview

Cited by 10 publications

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Media Portrayal of Child Refugees in Photographs during Two Distinct Historical Events: The Nakba in 1948 and the Syrian Civil War in 2015

Media Portrayal of Child Refugees in Photographs during Two Distinct Historical Events: The Nakba in 1948 and the Syrian Civil War in 2015

Developing Cultural Competence through Children’s Literature in Training Educational and Psycho-Social Professionals

iNakba, mobile media and society’s memory

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