For the past 75 years, all attempts to erase Palestinians’ memory have failed to prevent the indigenous people of Palestine from reacting to Israel’s creation.
“For Palestinians, the date marks the climatic point in the expulsion of most of the Palestinian population by Zionist forces, which was had been happening since December 1947 and resulted in the destruction of half of Palestine’s villages and towns. Some 750.000 Palestinians became refugees, losing their homes and property, and Palestine as a recognized country ceased to exist.”
For over 75 years, Colonialism, evangelism and the Zionist project have been trying to erase What was life in Palestine like during the Victorian age?
“Various dates are associated with the colonisation of Palestine, notably 1917 which ties into the Balfour Declaration, and 1948, the year of the Nakba.”
“Gabriel Polley’s new book, Palestine in the Victorian Age: Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land (I.B. Tauris, 2022) sets the scene earlier, with the Victorian era travellers to Palestine when it was under Ottoman rule in the 19th century.”
“However, as the book illustrates through drawing upon lesser-known writings on the subject, early narratives on Palestine adopt the language of alleged discovery as other European travellers, thus alluding to external domination over the indigenous even before the entrenchment of the Zionist settler-colonial project.“
During that period, the 75 years of Israeli Apartheid and Settlers Colonization of Palestine, Hummus, the cultural fixture in Palestinian cuisine heritage.
“With the rise of the hummus category, Palestinian and Arab American entrepreneurs have been largely left out of the conversation — until now. Enter: Baba’s, an award-winning Arab American/ Palestinian American owned brand founded by second-generation Palestinian American siblings Rana Kamal and Khalid Ansari.”