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In May, 2008 the world will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba. Nakba is the Arabic word for "catastrophe", and it refers to the displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people. For some, this anniversary will be a cause for celebration, for others mourning or protest. There are often different understandings of the history of 1948 and its ongoing significance. We believe that an honest discussion and accounting of this period is central to any lasting and just peace between Palestinians and Jewish Israelis. Below are educational resources AFSC has collected on the history of 1948 and its continuing relevance to our peace work today. Palestinians and Israelis Remember 1948
With introductory and concluding statements by Edward Said, this study in oral history is more than a handful of reminiscences. This video documents the collective nature of the stories from 1948 Palestinian survivors. It describes their daily life before the war, their flight from the conflict and their lives in exile. Collecting Stories from Exile weaves together interviews from the 1948 survivors with scenes demonstrating the process of oral history. Attempts to inspire Arab Americans and other communities to use oral history to preserve personal stories and memories often ignored or excluded from traditional historical narratives. The untold stories "Untold stories of the Nakba - A series of moving stories about Palestinian Americans who survived the Nakba, recounting their experiences before, during, and after their forced exile." Israeli anniversary voices This series produced by Al Jazeera tells the story of the beginning of Israel through the stories of individual Israelis. Stories include Uri Avnery, Tamar Eschel and Shmuel Shilo. Dual-Narrative ResourcesThe Lemon Tree From Bloomsbury: In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into the town of Ramle, in what is now Jewish Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes; their families had been driven out of Palestine nearly twenty years earlier. One cousin had a door slammed in his face, and another found his old house had been converted into a school. But the third, Bashir Al-Khairi, was met at the door by a young woman called Dalia, who invited them in. The Lemon Tree grew out of a forty-three minute radio documentary that Sandy Tolan produced for Fresh Air. With this book, he pursues the story into the homes and histories of the two families at its center, and up to the present day. Their stories form a personal microcosm of the last seventy years of Israeli-Palestinian history. In a region that seems ever more divided, The Lemon Tree is a reminder of all that is at stake, and of all that is still possible.
Narratives revisited BitterLemons brings together the writings of four scholars on the role of "narrative" in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The page features The Palestinian narrative clashes with a two-state solution by Yossi Alpher, Mind the gap by Ghassan Khatib, Photo Essay: Two Sides to Sixty Historical BackgroundPalestineRemembered.com was created "to preserve the memories and the experiences of the Palestinian people around the world, especially the 726,000 Palestinians refugees who were ethnically cleansed from their homes, farms, and businesses as a result of the 1948 war." Al Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 "AL NAKBA tackles the tragic events surrounding the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem and examines how and why 750,000 Palestinian Arabs became refugees by the end of the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Arab and Israeli eyewitnesses, together with Professor Benny Morris of Ben-Gurion University, describe what happened rather than what successive generations of Israeli and Arab propagandists have said happened." - From ArabFilm.com
The Sons Of Eilaboun "The Sons Of Eilaboun is a documentary film about the massacre, expulsion and return of a small Palestinian village in the Galilee. In the film the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe introduce the history behind the Nakba events. And the Eilaboun (Eilabun) people tell their story." - From Sonsofeilaboun.com. United Nations Relief and Works Agency UNRWA was established in 1949 to provide humanitarian assistance to Palestinian refugees following the 1948 War. On their web page, they have collected images from the camps established in the West Bank and Gaza.
Organizations
BADIL Resource Center for Badil takes a rights-based approach to the Palestinian refugee issue through research, advocacy and promoting the participation of refugees themselves. Zochrot ["Remembering"] Founded in 2002, Zochrot seeks to educate Jewish Israelis about al-Nakba, the Arabic word for “catastrophe” which refers to the 1948 displacement and dispossession of Palestinians. Jewish Voice for Peace Jewish Voice for Peace is a nationwide organization of activists inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, and human rights. JVP supports the aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians for security and self-determination.
AFSC ProgramsLegacies of 1948: Sixty Years of Searching for Justice The "Legacies of 1948" delegation will focus on the pivotal role of 1948 in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The group will tour the ruins of Palestinian villages within Israel and Palestinian refugee camps which testify to the events of 1948. The group will meet with Palestinian and Israeli activists, historians, and public figures who will share perspectives on the past 60 years and consider prospects for peace and historical justice. Find out moreFor more information about AFSC's program around the 60th anniversary of 1948, contact Adam Horowitz at ahorowitz@afsc.org.
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