On Recent Hebrew and Israeli Sources for the Palestinian Exodus, 1947–49
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12016060 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nur-eldeen Masalha (Nur-eldeen Masalha is a Palestinian researcher from the Galilee who holds an M.A. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of London., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121-137 |
| Publication date | 1988-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Palestine Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0377-919X • E-ISSN: 1533-8614 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2537599 |
| OpenAlex | W2072828003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
Since the Palestinian refugee exodus of 1948 a controversy has raged concerning its causes and circumstances. Palestinians have always maintained that the refugees were either directly expelled or terrorized into flight. They point out that simultaneous to the Haganah and Irgun Zvai Le'umi's (IZL) offensives of 1947-1948, a series of massacres was carried out against the unarmed Arab population, a tactic which precipitated population flight thus fulfilling the solution of population transfer long-advocated by Zionists. Although the issue of the exodus is a critical turning point in the Palestinians' history, only a small number of Palestinian academics-'Arif al-'Arif, Walid Khalidi, Elias Shoufani, Nafez Nazzal-have investigated its roots and causes. And the official historians of the Haganah and Zionist apologists in the West continue to advance their claim that the Palestinians either left of their own accord or were advised and ordered to do so by their own leaders. These allegations, including the stories about Arab radio broadcasts, were examined and discredited by Walid Khalidi and Erskine Childers in the early 1960s as being part of an Israeli disinformation campaign. 1 However, extremely useful Hebrew and Israeli primary sources, both memoirs of the 1948 war by participants and archival materials, have recently become available and these irrevocably undermine the official
Ancient history · Art · Disinformation · Hebrew · Media studies · Memoir · Palestinian refugees · Political science · Population · Refugee · Sociology · Turning point · Classics · Demography · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
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| Citation span | 1996 - 2023 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |