🇵🇸 Birzeit University (@BirzeitU): "The Israeli occupation destroys the central #archive of #Gaza #municipality, executing thousands of historical documents, and deliberately razing all life forms; erasing the city and its #history. It is worth noting that the archive holds #documents more than a hundred years old." | nitter –
Dec 6, 2023 · 7:15 PM UTC
Dec 6, 2023 · 7:15 PM UTC
🇵🇸 Palestinians see the #censorship as part of a wider trend of physical and #cultural erasure that began in 1948 and has continued ever since. Concealing the archival record denies them the tools to communicate their own #history, what the Palestinian intellectual and literary theorist #EdwardSaid called "permission to narrate."
"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."
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"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."
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