Israel Studies Roundtable Lunch: Shattered Sites, Silenced Stories: The Destruction of Palestinian Heritage

This talk examines the dual destruction of heritage sites and living stories across the Palestinian landscape, where the shattering of physical monuments is inseparable from the silencing of the oral traditions they sustain. It explores a systematic process of memoricide?the attempt to rewrite the stratigraphy of the land by erasing the material evidence of historical continuity. By analyzing t...