Cautious commemoration: Localism, communalism, and nationalism in Palestinian memorial monuments in Israel

Tamir Sorek

doi:10.1017/S0010417508000169

Cautious commemoration: Localism, communalism, and nationalism in Palestinian memorial monuments in Israel

Tamir Sorek

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In March 1998, the political leadership of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel was looking for ways to commemorate al-Nakba ("The Disaster," in Arabic), referring to the war of 1948, during which about 700,000 Palestinians were uprooted and hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed. This leadership, organized in the Follow-Up Committee (FUC), nominated a Nakba and Steadfastness Committee (NSC) chaired by the author Muhamad Ali Taha. Among the Committee's several initiatives, one gained front-page headlines in the Arabic media: a call for Arab municipalities to establish memorial monuments for the Palestinian martyrs (shuhada) of 1948.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	337-368
Number of pages	32
Journal	Comparative Studies in Society and History
Volume	50
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417508000169
State	Published - Apr 2008

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