Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Languages of Discrimination and Racism in Twentieth-Century Italy
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2022) 99-135
Keywords:
Arab-Israeli conflict 20th century
;
Palestinian Arabs
;
Jews
;
Jewish-Arab relations
;
Europe Ethnic relations
;
Italy Ethnic relations
Abstract:
This essay investigates the manifold ways in which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict spilled over in Europe in the 1960s, with a focus on Italy. The 1960s proved a crucial decade in the consolidation of juxtaposed memories, narratives, and identities for Israelis and Palestinians and the same happened in the Diaspora for Palestinians and Jews. Several factors shaped such a consolidation: memories of recent individual and collective traumas, the Eichmann trial, youth politics between 1967 and 1969, and, obviously, the Six Day War. Using hitherto unpublished primary sources collected in Italy, the UK, and the Netherlands, and oral history interviews with Palestinians in Italy and Italian Jews, I analyze how during this decade the Israeli-Palestinian conflict interlocked with local and national politics, and with perceived or real anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. This chapter suggests that Europe too was one of the theatres of this war, in terms of identity politics, collective traumatic memories of the Holocaust, grassroots mobilization, and also terrorism.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-98657-5_5
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