Public diplomacy in Israel, known as hasbara, is a well-known and until recently successfully deployed PR effort to positively spin information about Israeli actions around the world.In 2015, columnist Gideon Levy wrote that hasbara “is the Israeli.
Azzi: Bye-bye, Hasbara. It’s not about Hamas
Robert Azzi
Public diplomacy in Israel, known as
Hasbara, is a well-known and until recently successfully deployed PR effort to positively spin information about Israeli actions around the world. In 2015, columnist Gideon Levy wrote that hasbara “is the Israeli euphemism for propaganda” and there are some things …[…] … that are not hasbarable. One of them is Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.”
Between Israelis and Palestinians there are competing and seemingly irreconcilable narratives; one driven by hasbara, the other by displacement and occupation.
Each side has a choice: either to idolize their own narrative at the exclusion of the other or to acknowledge the other’s legitimacy and seek a path for justice and peace, recognizing that peace isn t something simply to be desired but follows from justice - which itself follows from truth.
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Mohammed Al-Hajjar
For many people in Gaza, pieces of paper are their most treasured possessions. These are the deeds for land from which their families were expelled.
Adam al-Madhoun is the custodian of documents showing how his grandfather Salim owned a 37 acre farm in Majdal.
Located on the southern coast of historic Palestine, Majdal was seized by the newly formed Israeli army in November 1948. A mass expulsion of its residents occurred then.
Those who managed to stay put came under attack by Israel again in December the following year.
The remaining Palestinians left Majdal as a result of that attack, mainly ending up in Gaza’s refugee camps.
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May. 1, 2021 12:22 AM
1. Ramat Hasharon is flanked on both sides by security facilities. When I was a kid we called them “the factory” and “the camp.” Today they’re called “the Ta’as compound” – using the Hebrew acronym for Israel Military Industries – and “Unit 8200” – referring to the famed elite intelligence unit. Both of these areas have been earmarked as real estate.
My mother used to tell me about the previous residents of these lands – to the east was Abu Kishk, where IMI was set up along with the Morasha neighborhood. To the west was the village of Jalil, which contributed its name to Glilot Junction.