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    This document summarizes Ariella Azoulay's book "Constituent Violence 1947-1950" which uses over 200 photographs from state archives to reconstruct the processes by which Palestinians became a minority in Israel between 1947-1950. It challenges the Zionist narrative of Israel's founding and the Palestinian narrative of the Nakba by showing how the division between Jews and Arabs emerged and how the Nakba transformed into an essential component of establishing Israel's regime of violence. The photographs tell the story of how the Palestinian majority became a minority ruled by the new Jewish majority.

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    This document summarizes Ariella Azoulay's book "Constituent Violence 1947-1950" which uses over 200 photographs from state archives to reconstruct the processes by which Palestinians became a minority in Israel between 1947-1950. It challenges the Zionist narrative of Israel's founding and the Palestinian narrative of the Nakba by showing how the division between Jews and Arabs emerged and how the Nakba transformed into an essential component of establishing Israel's regime of violence. The photographs tell the story of how the Palestinian majority became a minority ruled by the new Jewish majority.

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    This document summarizes Ariella Azoulay's book "Constituent Violence 1947-1950" which uses over 200 photographs from state archives to reconstruct the processes by which Palestinians became a minority in Israel between 1947-1950. It challenges the Zionist narrative of Israel's founding and the Palestinian narrative of the Nakba by showing how the division between Jews and Arabs emerged and how the Nakba transformed into an essential component of establishing Israel's regime of violence. The photographs tell the story of how the Palestinian majority became a minority ruled by the new Jewish majority.

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    Constituent Violence 1947-1950 - Ariella's Cargo 5/13/16, 3:40 PM

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    Constituent Violence 1947-1950

    Ariella Azoulay offers a new perspective on four crucial years in the history of Palestine/Israel. She reconstructs the processes by which the Palestinian majority in Mandatory Palestine
    became a minority in Israel, while the Jewish minority established a new political entity in which it became a majority ruling a minority Palestinian population. She does so by reading
    some 200 photographs from that period, most of which have never been seen by the Israeli public. Almost all the photographs in this book come from State archives. Through the use
    of photography, Azoulay recounts the events and the stories that for years have been only partially acknowledged by Israeli Jews, that have been silenced, denied or distorted, pushed
    to the margins of the hegemonic tale of “building the country.”

    Azoulay’s approach challenges two principal narratives: the Zionist narrative, that opens with the dream of returning to Zion and culminates in the establishment of the state of Israel,
    and the Palestinian narrative (which many post-Zionists have also adopted) that views the nakba as the foundational event in Palestinian existence and identity, but ignores the
    contribution of the Palestinian catastrophe to the establishment of the Israeli regime and to shaping its modalities of violence. These contradictory narratives assume as self-evident a
    rigid division between Jews and Arabs. Since both accept this division as an accepted fact, neither is capable of reconstructing the process by which this division itseld came into
    existence. Azoulay uses the photographs to tell that story. She sees the nakba – the disaster that befell the Palestinians – as the event that made the division between Jews and
    Arabs possible, while that division, which gradually became fixed, is seen as responsible for the fact that this catastrophe was viewed by the Jews as the unavoidable price of the war
    for Jewish sovereignty and a disaster only from the Palestinian perspective. Azoulay rejects this view; for her, the nakba is an absolute catastrophe, and she explains how its
    transformation into “what they see as a disaster” became an essential component in the establishment of the Israeli regime.

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    Constituent Violence 1947-1950

    The Catastrophe, Lectures by Ariella Azoulay and Issam Nasser, Documentary Forum, Berlin link

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