Summary
An Israeli NGO — ‘remembering’ in Hebrew — whose members, in Pappe’s Epilogue to The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, stubbornly put up signs with the names of destroyed Palestinian villages in places where there are today Jewish settlements or a JNF forest.
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Pappe locates the political wisdom the peace-brokers lack among Israelis who recognise that the refugee problem stands at the heart of the conflict; they can be seen in action as members of NGOs such as Zochrot, who make it their mission to signpost destroyed Palestinian villages (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.297).
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The same Israelis are found standing alongside the ‘internal’ Palestinian refugees, almost half a million people, in joint annual pilgrimages to the destroyed villages on the day official Israel celebrates its Independence Day, and speaking at the Conferences for the Right of Return and Just Peace that began in 2004 (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.297).
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In Manna’s methodology discussion, the important work being carried out by Zochrot, an Israeli nonprofit organization, in conducting interviews with eyewitnesses of the Nakba is noteworthy (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.46).
Related pages
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Right of Return, Memoricide, Nakba