Palestine: From the Nakba to Apartheid. A People's Struggle for Liberation
Authors: Martín Martinelli, David Comedi, Miguel Ibarlucía, Liliana Cordova Kaczerginski, Nadia Silhi Chahin, Berenice Bento, Guiltherme Cardim, Natalia Brizuela, Verónica Gago, Pablo Nolasco Flores, Lautaro Masri,
Fernando Coll, Daphna Thier, Ilan Pappé, Zulema Beatriz Gonzalez
CounterhegemonyWeb
Special Group Al Zeytun Magazine/CLACSO Palestine and Latin America
July 2021
At a time when new massacres loom over the Palestinian people, while bombs fall on children and adults in Gaza, while a new anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe) is commemorated – a catastrophe that continues over time and began long before 1948 – we at ContrahegemoniaWeb attempt with this dossier to understand, to offer different and complementary perspectives, and to try to find a thread of rationality amidst so much horror.
A rationality at odds with neutrality and passivity. Because we aspire for this dossier to be a door (or window) to glimpse perspectives that contribute to overcoming the situation, channels of intervention for those of us who can no longer silently endure—Palestinians, Jews, anyone whose humanity has not been stripped by the system—so much horror and injustice that Zionism and its Frankenstein, the apartheid state of Israel, inflict on the Palestinian people, without managing to subdue them.
La Nakba It represents a turning point in the history of the Palestinian people, a breaking point, a rupture that altered every aspect of society. But it is neither the beginning nor the culmination of that colonialist, racist process of extermination and displacement perpetrated by Israel. It is certainly a devastating and traumatic moment for Palestinian society as a whole, a time when a plan of ethnic cleansing was set in motion that would continue for the next 73 years—a process that would involve massacres, the destruction of hundreds of towns and villages with the extermination of a large part of their inhabitants, the expulsion of the native population to become refugees, the demolition of homes from which they were forcibly removed, the burning of crops and centuries-old olive trees, the attempt to eliminate, conceal, and/or deny all historical records that attest to the existence of this people, and the attempt to erase them from collective memory.
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