Category: #8 Postcolonialism

the Arab-Israeli conflict is one rife with contradiction and confusion.  What started it? Who started it? Why does it continue to this day?  For the most part those people who were educated in Westernized schools like most students in the United States learn about this conflict from the perspective of the Israelis, Europeans and Americans … Continue reading “Right of Return, Who’s is It?”

“Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews are a people without a country,” – Israel Zangwill, a prominent British Zionist, in the New Liberal Review in 1901. This argument for a Jewish state appealed to many of the 250,000 Jewish DPs living in camps in Germany, Austria, and Italy after World War II [1]. They…

This is probably one of the best set ups for a reading.  The two main readings involved the perspective of the Palestinians who were being pushed out of their home to make way for the Zionists, or in 1948 better know as the Israelis.  The other reading however is a critique of the exodus of … Continue reading “The Displaced Displaced Others”

Many years after World War Two, displaced persons were able to begin a return trip home, or rather where home used to be. But rather than finding a nostalgic community of their old friends, family, and neighbors, these DP’s were Continue reading The Pain of a Disappearing Home→

After World War II, Europe and its people were damaged. As we’ve discussed millions of people were displaced from their homes and their countries. Many left defenseless, homeless and some left for dead. The United Nations and many other worldwide organizations worked hard, and sometimes not efficiently to help these people find a place to […]

It is no secret that millions of people on the European continent were displaced from their countries and homes after World War II. The years of fighting and destruction left millions in a state of limbo while being corralled into … Continue reading →