Gaza’s landmarks carried centuries of Palestinian history before Israeli bombardment reduced many to rubble. Their destruction reveals a wider campaign to sever a people from their culture and land.
Destruction of architecture, communities, institutions, and homes is an important to the Israeli genocide as the murder of Palestinians. Israel wants all history of Palestine gone so the only story left will be the lie about an Israeli homeland, 3,000 years old. Truly an evil culture.
I actually just wrote something eerily similar, but through a different historical lens—the Roman practice of "damnatio memoriae". Thank you for highlighting the broader implications of erasing Palestinian history and their connection to the past.
To me, the attempt to erase Palestinian culture and memory is one of the most horrfic forms of violence. It's an attempt to erase not only people, but the stories, places, and history that prove they were there. That's why preserving those memories matters so much.
If anyone is interested, I'd love for you to check out my latest post on "Damnatio Memoriae" and how this ancient Roman practice reverberates in modern realities of suppression.
As Jason Stanley’s book Erasing History describes, this is a tool of all fascists. Like the bodies in mass graves now bulldozed and erased by the Israelis, Israel is erasing the history of Gaza with the goal of replacing both the people and the history with an Israeli fabrication.
Destruction of architecture, communities, institutions, and homes is an important to the Israeli genocide as the murder of Palestinians. Israel wants all history of Palestine gone so the only story left will be the lie about an Israeli homeland, 3,000 years old. Truly an evil culture.
I actually just wrote something eerily similar, but through a different historical lens—the Roman practice of "damnatio memoriae". Thank you for highlighting the broader implications of erasing Palestinian history and their connection to the past.
To me, the attempt to erase Palestinian culture and memory is one of the most horrfic forms of violence. It's an attempt to erase not only people, but the stories, places, and history that prove they were there. That's why preserving those memories matters so much.
If anyone is interested, I'd love for you to check out my latest post on "Damnatio Memoriae" and how this ancient Roman practice reverberates in modern realities of suppression.
Greatful to be kept informed. Thank you. Wish there was something one could do to change things.
Hallmarks of Genocide.
I pray for Palestine every day
As Jason Stanley’s book Erasing History describes, this is a tool of all fascists. Like the bodies in mass graves now bulldozed and erased by the Israelis, Israel is erasing the history of Gaza with the goal of replacing both the people and the history with an Israeli fabrication.