Palestine Nakba : Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory.

About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Structure and Themes -- 1 Zionism and European Settler-Colonialism -- Blood, Soil, Race and Land Conquest -- Creating a Zionist Language -- European Zionist Narratives and Colonial Reality -- Framing the Conflict: Settler-colonialism, Herrenvolk Democracy, Ashkenazi Ethnocracy -- Colonialism, Anti-colonialism and Post-colonialism -- How Unique is the Zionist Settler-Colonial Project? -- Settler-colonialism and the Yishuv's 'Transfer Committees' and Schemes, 1937-48 -- 1948: A Pattern of Repeated Atrocities -- Dayr Yasin, 9 April 1948 -- Rape and Sexual Assault by Jewish Forces in 1948 -- The Galilee Atrocities -- 2 The Memoricide of the Nakba: Zionist-Hebrew Toponymy and the De-Arabisation of Palestine -- Silencing the Palestinian Past -- The Importance of Toponymy and the Politics of Renaming -- Renaming as Self-reinvention: The Hebrewisation of Names after 1948 -- The Zionist Superimposing of Hebrew Toponymy -- Biblical Myths, Old and New: The Complicity of the Israeli Academy -- European Artists' Colonies as Places of Amnesia and Erasure -- The Reconsecration of Muslim Shrines as Jewish Shrines -- From Al-Majdal to Biblical Ashkelon, 1948-56 -- Appropriating Palestinian Place Names -- 3 Fashioning a European Landscape, Erasure and Amnesia: The Jewish National Fund, Afforestation and Green-washing the Nakba -- Forests as a Space of Amnesia and Erasure -- Fashioning a European-biblical Landscape? -- The Liberal Coloniser Facing the European Forests -- The Destruction of al-Araqib, July 2010 -- 4 Appropriating History: Looting of Palestinian Records, Archives and Library Collections, 1948-2011 -- The Beirut Archives of the Palestinian Research Centre, 1965-82 -- The Jerusalem Archives of the Arab Studies Society/Orient House, 1979-2001.

5 Post-Zionism, the Liberal Coloniser and Hegemonic Narratives: A Critiqueof the Israeli 'New Historians' -- The Myths of Zionism -- A New Regime of Knowledge? -- A Historiographic Revolution? -- 'New History' and the Liberal Coloniser: Khirbet Khiz'ah and Zionist Narratives -- The New Myths of Liberal Zionism: 1967 -- Shared Responsibility for the Catastrophe? -- A Post-colonial History? -- The Impact of the 'New Historians'/Post-Zionists -- The Historian's Methodology and Bridging the Narrative Gap -- Racism, Justification of Ethnic Cleansing and the Resurgence of Neo-colonial Epistemology -- The Israeli Academy and the Political-Military-Security Establishment -- 6 Decolonising History and Narrating the Subaltern: Palestinian Oral History, Indigenous and Gendered Memories -- The Nakba as Site of Palestinian Collective Memory -- Archiving Popular Memory and People's Voices: Palestinian Oral History and Subaltern Studies -- Palestinian Oral History, Gendered Memories and Liberating Experiences -- Oral History of the Holocaust, Yad va-Shem and Dayr Yasin -- The Limits of Israeli and Colonial Records, Documents and Archives -- Silencing Palestinian Women's Voices within the Subaltern Story -- 7 Resisting Memoricide, Reclaiming Memory: Nakba Commemoration among Palestinians in Israel -- History Textbooks in Jewish and Arab Schools -- Nakba Day and the Struggle for Collective Rights inside Israel -- Grassroots Activism and Palestinian Civil Society inside Israel -- Epilogue: The Continuity of Trauma -- References -- Index.