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A Palestine man holds the key to his former home left behind in front of his house, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, May 15, 2016. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Mapping the Palestinian villages erased and replaced with Jewish towns

A new map seeks to provide new information on the Palestinian cities, towns, and villages that were erased and replaced since the inception of the Zionist movement. By Tom Pessah Immigrants coming to Israel are unlikely to know the name “Mlabes,” but Israelis are more acquainted with it. After all, it is the name of a…

By +972 Magazine January 29, 2017

The remnants of the mosque in the destroyed Golan Heights village of Sur'aman. (Natasha Roth)

Finding home in a new memory: A journey to the Golan

Maintaining a boundary between support, solidarity and an acknowledgment of Israel’s wrongdoing toward Palestinians without appropriating the memory is an ongoing and constant effort. In Mansura, I found something different. By Eitan Bronstein Aparicio For years, I have been acting in the realm of the political memory, the construction of memory, deconstructing and erecting myths. I…

By +972 Magazine June 4, 2016

Palestinians put a sign marking the destroyed village of Lajjun in northern Israel, Nakba Day, May 15, 2015. (Photo by Omar Sameer/Activestills.org)

A small step toward recognizing the Nakba

Putting up signs marking destroyed Palestinian towns and villages could bring about a more moral discourse about the Nakba and its victims. By Eitan Bronstein Aparicio About two weeks ago, far from the public eye, something with potentially far-reaching and serious consequences occurred in Israel: An inspector on a local planning committee recommended that a sign…

By +972 Magazine December 19, 2015

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