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Israeli historian Rona Sela has spent 20 years uncovering Palestinian visual history that has been kept in the dark in Israel's state and military archives. She says the methodical plunder of Palestinians <https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2012/05/20125915313256768.html>' cultural assets predates the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, what Palestinians call the 'Nakba <https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2013/05/20135612348774619.html>' or 'catastrophe.' "The looting and seizure, as far as I found, started in the 1930s in a systematic and organised manner ... by Haganah forces [Zionist paramilitary group]. The seizure intensified, of course, with the Nakba in 1948. I found materials taken in 1967, 1982, 1991 and ... in the last few years." "Israel is terrified of the contents of its own archives, and doesn't want its history to be exposed," says Mahmoud Yazbak, a professor at the University of Haifa. "The government's ... aim is to hide the past from researchers in order to prevent it from being part of the present and the future." "The fact that these documents have been taken away from Palestinian hands is a sign of contempt for Palestinian history," says Yazbak. "It's an attempt to suggest Palestinians have no history, no documents, no belongings." https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2018/11/history-suppressed-censorship-israel-archives-181110122100217.html _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
