Tag: Palestine: 1948 Holocaust

NOVANEWS By Richard Falk Global Justice in the 21st Century Controlling the Discourse Israel has been brilliant over the years in shaping and misdirecting the public discourse on the future of Palestine. Among its earliest achievement along these lines was the crucial propaganda victory by having the 1948 War known internationally as the ‘War of Independence.’ Such a designation erases the Palestinians from political consciousness, and distorts the deeper human and political consequences of the war. Language matters, especially in vital circumstances where there are winners and losers, a reality that applies above all to a war of displacement. It took decades for the Palestinians to elevate their experience of the 1948 war to even the consciousness of those on an international ...