Both Citizens and Strangers in Post-1948 Israel
hosted by Graham Auman Pitts
The Palestinian Arabs who remained within the borders of Israel after the 1948 war became citizens of the new state. But in those early years Arab villages lived under military rule that would last nearly two decades. In this episode, Shira Robinson discusses the research for her book Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler State, which examines the crucial and neglected experience of Palestinians in the early years after the founding of the state of Israel. In our conversation, we explore how the ideal of liberal democracy and the promise of equal citizenship were at odds with the project of the nation-state.
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Shira Robinson is the author of Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State. She teaches History and International Affairs at the George Washington University. |
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Graham Auman Pitts holds a doctorate in history from Georgetown University's Department of History. His dissertation, "Fallow Fields: Famine and the Making of Lebanon," probes the intersections of ecology, capital, and colonialism in the modern Middle East. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at North Carolina State University.
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CREDITS
Episode No. 273
Release Date: 20 October 2016
Recording Location: Baltimore, MD
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Sound excerpts: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi; Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Egil Daglar Ustunden Asam - Viktoriya Hanim; Turnalar Turnalar - Darulelhan Heyeti
Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the outro music
Images and bibliography courtesy of Shira Robinson
IMAGES
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| 18 April 1956, Umm al-Fahm village—Palestinian citizens of Israel charged with violating emergency regulations inside a makeshift military tribunal. (Source: Courtesy of the Israel Defense Forces and Defense Establishment Archive) |
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| 18 April 1956, Umm al-Fahm village—Palestinian citizens of Israel charged with violating emergency regulations inside a makeshift military tribunal. (Source: Courtesy of the Israel Defense Forces and Defense Establishment Archive) |
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| Caption: 2 January 1956, location unspecified (possibly a village depopulated in 1948)—Military police inspect the paperwork of Palestinians as part of a "Manhunt for Illegal Wanderers.” (Source: Courtesy of the Israel Defense Forces and Defense Establishment Archive) |
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| 1 May 1958, Nazareth—Palestinian communists march on May Day in boycott of the celebrations of Israel's tenth anniversary and in solidarity with the Algerian Revolution. (Source: Courtesy of Na’ila Naqara) |
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| Citizen Strangers by Shira Robinson Stanford University Press, 2013 |
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