Theft of the Nakba Narrative - Left Curve

Israeli academia systematically floods the bookshelves
with Nakba narratives. Nevertheless, these narratives
are still an integral part of the Zionist project to
erase the Palestinian civilization, so that it can be produced
as Israeli academic texts. I am an Arab-Jew. I have
witnessed the parallel complete erasure of the Arab-
Jewish civilizations by Ashkenazi Zionists. The extent of
the academic cultural appropriation that our communities
have lived through is discussed by other members of
this panel. I therefore echo and support the Palestinian
call for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel.
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End Note by the author: Rahela Mizrahi signed the
Palestinian call for the cultural boycott of Israel in 2006.
She has a degree in fine arts from the Betzalel Academy in
Jerusalem and a Master’s Degree in Arabic Language and
Literature. She has completed her Masters Degree without
thesis due to the demand of Tel Aviv University to drop the
part which discusses the Israeli academia in her Master’s dissertation
about the “Patterns of Expropriation, Conversion,
and Appropriation of Palestinian Heritage through Israeli
Art”.