Holocaust and Nakba were catastrophic episodes in Jewish and Palestinian history, respectively. Both events affected the two peoples’ future history, education, and identity. Since the 1970s and 1980s, the Holocaust has been central to Jewish identity in Israel and worldwide. Since 1948, Palestinian-Arab ownership has been shaped by the Nakba and its aftermath. For Palestinians, the Nakba is about conquering, ethnic cleansing in Palestine, and losing their country (Bashir & Goldberg, 2019). Moreover, it depicts living as refugees and a distinct minority in their settlements. The Nakba refers to the destruction of hundreds of cities and towns and the Palestinian people’s cultural, economic, political, and social backgrounds. Violent and irreparable interruption of the Palestinian state’s modern development in terms of culture, society, and understanding.
The siege of Gaza, the expulsion of towns, and Jewish settlement are all examples of Palestinian colonial policies and practices that continue today. Millions of Jews perished during World War II as a result of persecution, gunfire, and gas chambers operated by the Germans and other aggressor nations. The Romans and Sinti, Poles, gays, communists, Soviet war prisoners, political opponents, the disabled, and the disabled were just some of the other groups and races targeted by the Nazis (Bashir & Goldberg, 2019). The war ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany’s defeat, but its memory and consequences profoundly altered the path of Jewish history and awareness in general. In a short period of time, a thriving civilization was flattened. Both the State of Israel, which was established in 1948 in Palestine, and the Jewish Agency for Israel in the United States superseded a broader European area.
Not the Holocaust or the Nakba, but the Zionist movement and modern Jewish settlements in Palestine sparked the conflict between Jews and Arabs over Palestine. As a result of the Great Depression and World War II, many people’s opinions and rivalries shifted. The Holocaust and the Nakba are not the essential topics of Judaism and Palestine in the early 21st century, but they are crucial to an individual’s identity and awareness of these two people (Bashir & Goldberg, 2019). Alon Confino calls the Holocaust and the Palestinian Holocaust with many Arabs “the past tense,” and Vamik Volkan identifies it as “chosen agony” (Bashir & Goldberg, 2019). The universe and the national narrative center around victimhood and loss, where tragedy and trauma play a significant role (Bashir & Goldberg, 2019).
Even though the histories of Zion and Palestine are distinct, their syntax and grammar are comparable. Opposition to another tragedy and the ability (whether public or direct) to assist a large disaster are the foundations of the two historical records. Each side believes that it is the last victim of history while ignoring or downplaying the suffering of the other. Structuralism semiotics uses arguable questions based on binary reasoning (Bashir & Goldberg, 2019). It strives to overcome these global stories’ binary, diverse bounds in history, memory, and identity. It suggests a new register of history and memory that acknowledges the heterogeneity of each event, its contexts, and outcomes while providing a common historical framework and concept for both narratives. We present a new historical and memory syntax and grammar in which “Holocaust and Nakba” are established.
People suggest that traditional stories’ peculiar, distinct worldview is historically wrong, ethically and politically damaging, and potent in deciding the clash between Jewish and Palestinian nationalism (Bashir & Goldberg, 2019)s. There has been an attempt to avoid a national syntax in the symbolic role of national news and history and less crucially in the mortal plane of ethics dealing with individual rights and collections. Walter Benjamin said the work paraphrases the grain’s history (Bashir & Goldberg, 2019). Benjamin’s statements have become a joke, yet they describe what want to do with this book (Bashir & Goldberg, 2019). Since the Peel Commission in 1937, the Israeli/ruling Palestinian paradigm has failed, in our opinion. Politics and bilingualism must be built instead of divisiveness. Khoury’s thought-provoking and uplifting musings on the placement of Jewish and Palestinian calamities continue in this comprehensive masterpiece.
References
Bashir, B., & Goldberg, A. (2019). The Holocaust and the Nakba: A new grammar of trauma and history. Columbia University Press. Web.