Catastrophes: Thinking Shoah and Nakba Together RFG

Catastrophes: Thinking Shoah and Nakba Together

One of the most systematically ignored roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the intimate connection of two catastrophes, the Shoah (“catastrophe” in Hebrew) and the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic). The annihilation of European Jewry by the Nazis (commonly referred to by the catachresis “Holocaust”) and...