'Israel... is not really interested in imposing social amnesia about the events of 1948, but rather aims to shape and control Palestinian memory.' Neve Gordon on Nakba
On the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, it seems apt to think about how the events of 1948 have shaped not only the history of the Palestinian people, but also their present colonial reality.”—to use a phrase first introduced by sociology professor Avery Gordon. It has become a psychic force that ceaselessly haunts the present.
Israeli state’s strategy to create new memories of violence among Palestinians and thus ensure that the Nakba remains a constant presence seems to contradict its official policy of denying it ever occurred. In 2009, the Israeli Education Ministry banned the use of this word in textbooks for Palestinian children.
Israel, however, is not really interested in imposing social amnesia about the events of 1948, but rather aims to shape and control Palestinian memory. This paradoxical policy—wavering between memory and commemoration, where the first is continuously reproduced and the second is banned—is an essential component of the settler-colonial logic which aims to violently erase the history and geography of the native people in order to justify their displacement and replacement by settlers.
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