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To Kill Twice
“For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. … Continue reading →
DISPUTES OF NANKING
Painting by Hung Liu, 2003 This image above is a painting by Hung Liu and it depicts a young girl surrounded by destruction and death. The colors used in this painting are culturally considered colors of devastation and death as well as ghosts. Hung Liu uses these artistic elements to represent the darkness and desolation …
A Sight No More
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a decorated Black soldier with the rank of sergeant, was returning home to South Carolina after serving in WWII. He was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police ruthlessly beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The incident made national headlines and, when …
Reframing Africa
Like much of the study of history, a study of colonialism in Africa in the postwar period is incredibly complicated. Over the years, we have been given many different, and yet predominantly monolithic, lenses with which to view this phenomenon. … Continue reading →
Living Memory
Return to Haifa is a novella by writer and political activist Ghassan Kanafani who was assassinated by Mossad in 1972. The story was written in 1969 in the aftermath of the 1967 June War (or Six Day War), in which … Continue reading →
What They Lost: Palestinians after Israel
Earlier this semester, we spent a lot of time talking about the displaced persons created in the wake of World War II. They were often unable to physically return to their homes, and lost their cultures and communities to the destruction caused. In Lila Abu-Lughod’s article Return to Half Ruins, she talks about how many …
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Returning Home?
Palestine was drastically changed due to the increase of displaced persons and the creation of Israel. The betrayal and distrust that stemmed from this era is still prevalent in the region today. On both the Israeli and Palestinian sides of the Israel debate are feelings of betrayal as well as entitlement to a home and …
Zionism in Practice
If you were to visit the estate of notorious Nazi propagandist and war criminal Julius Streicher in 1946, you may have been surprised to see that the property had become the home of a group of Jewish teens and young … Continue reading →
Zion: At What Cost?
Before the beginning of World War II, Zionists in Palestine, Europe, and America, were hard at work trying to create a national homeland for the Jewish peoples. Many different views were present within the Va’ad Leumi (National Council) of Palestine on how the ambition of Zionist ideology could be achieved. There was a distinct splitContinue reading “Zion: At What Cost?”
Beneath the Surface
Although the war ended with Japan surrendering following the United States dropping the second atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the suffering for the people of Japan would continue. The casualties from this attack did not stop with the initial explosion, as people would continue to ultimately perish due to complications such as radiation sickness. The battlesContinue reading “Beneath the Surface”
