The New York War Crimes | “All the Consent That’s Fit to Manufacture”

What follows is the first English translation, by Alex Jreisat, of the Palestinian revolutionary intellectual and martyr Basel al-Araj’s essay Al-dhakirah al-jarīhah lil-nakbah (“The Wounded Memory of the Nakba”), which explores political questions of memory during and after catastrophe through unflinching portraits of several geographies that faced Zionist annihilation campaigns from 1947 to 1949, including Tantura, Deir Yassin, and al-Dawayima. The study then presents three narrative themes focused on the tools of extermination during the Nakba: extermination by incineration in al-Tira, by biological warfare in Akka, and by death march in al-Lidd and al-Ramleh. While the work below is harrowing and brutal, it is a fitting rejoinder to any who believe the destruction of Palestinian life to have begun with the al-Aqsa Flood operation.
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