Publisher's Synopsis
The Zionist pedagogical narrative reproduced in schoolbooks views the migration of Jews to Israel as the conclusion of the journey from the Holocaust to the Resurrection. It negates all forms of diasporic Jewish life and culture and ignores the history of Palestine during the 2000-year-long Jewish 'exile'. Thus, a rhetoric of victimhood and power evolves, and a nationalistic interpretation of the 'never again' imperative is inculcated, justifying the Occupation and oppression of Palestinians and the marginalization of non-European Jews. The present study, which advocates a multidirectional memory, proposes an alternative Hebrew-Arabic, multi-voiced and poly-centered curriculum that would relate the accounts of the people whom the pedagogic narrative seeks to conceal and exclude.
