Opinion: How Palestinian writing fights erasure

Art has always played an essential role in Palestinian resistance to Israel’sattempts at symbolic and factual erasure. Palestinians protest, testify and document creatively through stories, music and videos circulating on social media, among other things.

However, Palestinians cannot tell their stories unhindered. Palestinian perspectives are marginalised, questioned, or supplanted by Israeli ones.

European guilt for the Shoah and the persistence of the Zionist myth of the return to the promised land have strongly hindered different perspectives on Israel’s establishment in the Global North.

Israel’s dominant narrative has overruled the reality of Palestinian victims of the Nakba, i.e. the transformation of historic Palestine into the state of Israel, established on 78 percent of its territory.

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