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It frames the Nakba as central to Palestinian collective memory, social history, and identity, and connects it to ongoing resistance against ethnic cleansing and politicide. The work critically analyzes Zionism’s settler-colonial narratives, memorial practices, and erasures of Palestinian presence.","The Palestine Nakba  \nAbout the Author  \nNur Masa lh a is Professor of Religion and Politics and director of the Centre for Religion and History at St Mary’s University College, UK. He is also editor of Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal (Edinburgh University Press).  \nThe Palestine Nakba  \nDecolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory  \nnur masa lha  \nzEd booKS London & New York  \nThe Palestine Nakba􀀺 􀁄e􀁣􀁯l􀁯nisin􀁧 􀁈ist􀁯􀁲􀁹􀀬 Na􀁲􀁲atin􀁧 the Subalte􀁲n􀀬 Re􀁣laimin􀁧 Mem􀁯􀁲􀁹 was first published in 2012 by Zed Books Ltd, 7 Cynthia Street, London n 1 9 j f, uk and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, ny 10 010, usa [www.zedbooks.co.uk](www.zedbooks.co.uk)[ ](www.zedbooks.co.uk)Copyright © Nur Masalha 2012  \nThe right of Nur Masalha to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988  \nDesigned and typeset by illuminati, Grosmontin ITC Bodoni Twelve  \nIndex by John Barker [Cover designed by www.alice-marwick.co.uk](Cover designed by www.alice-marwick.co.uk)  \n[All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be](All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be)[ ](All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be)reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of Zed Books Ltd. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data available isbn 978 1 84813 972 5 eb  \nContents  \nacknow ledgement s  \nIntroduction  \n1 zionism and European Settler-Colonialism  \n2 The Memoricide of the Nakba: zionist-Hebrew Toponymy and the de-Arabisation of Palestine  \n3 Fashioning a European Landscape, Erasure and Amnesia: The Jewish National Fund, Afforestation and Green-washing the Nakba  \n4 Appropriating History: Looting of Palestinian Records, Archives and Library Collections, 1948–2011  \n5 Post-zionism, the Liberal Coloniser and Hegemonic Narratives: A Critique of the Israeli‘New Historians’  \nvi  \n1  \n19  \n88  \n120  \n135  \n148  \n6 decolonising History and Narrating the Subaltern:  \nPalestinian oral History, Indigenous and Gendered  \nMemories 205  \n7 Resisting Memoricide, Reclaiming Memory:  \nNakba Commemoration among Palestinians in Israel 229  \nEpilogue: The Continuity of Trauma 251  \nreferences 258  \nindex 279  \nAcknowledgements  \nThis book could not have been written without the intellectual and emotional support of my family and friends. First, I would like to thank the many friends and colleagues who have encouraged me over the years and help me, directly and indirectly, with ideas, conversations, criticism, material, logistics and moral support, including Ahmad Sa’di, Sherna berger Gluck, Ilan Pappé, Isabelle Humphries, oren ben-dor, Mary Grey, John docker, duncan Macpherson, Claire Norton, Mark donnelly, Ghada Karmi, Isma‘el Abu-Sa‘ad, Seif d’ana, david Evans, Sari Hanafi, Saad Chedid, Keith Hammond, As’ad Ghanem, Abbas Shiblak, Ronit Lentin, Haim bresheeth, Rahela Mizrahi, bernard Regan, Colin South and Sam Kuruvilla. At zed books I am particularly indebted to editors Jakob Horstmann and Tamsine o’Riordan for their comments and practical help. Last but not least, I owe enormous gratitude to my wife dr Stephanie Cronin, a highly original historian of the modern Middle East, and my daughter Maryam Masalha for their tremendous enthusiasm and emotional support. Stephanie, in particular, helped me with brilliant ideas and sharp comments without which this volume would not have been completed. Any credit for this book should be shared with Stephanie and the people above, but all shortcomings are mine alone.  \nIntroduction  \n1948 was the year of the Palestine Nakba (Catastrophe), the uprooting of the Palestinians and the dismemberment and deArabisation of historic Palestine. 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