Abstract
The chapter presents the case of an Israeli law that bans commemoration of Palestinian displacement in the 1948 war during the annual Israeli Independence Day celebration. Focusing on the public debates surrounding the law from 2009 to 2017, the legislation process is analyzed within the Israeli context as one legal technique in the service of a larger political effort to silence criticism and control public debate. This case demonstrates how antidemocratic legislation radicalizes the inherent tension between nation-state memory and democratic law. In Israel, this is done by introducing an escalating degree of minority exclusion—from omission of minority memories from the national calendar, to active banning of minority commemoration. Yet the study also reveals the limitation of state power to control public debate using memory laws.KeywordsMemory LawsThe “Nakba Law”Israel-PalestinePublic debateNational Memory
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