Memoricide

The Canaanites clearly suffered a great evil at the hands of the Jews, who also tried to commit memoricide by casting down the religious structures of Canaan.

Although continuing some of the pre-Nakba patterns, Zionist toponymic strategies in the post-Nakba period pursued more drastically memoricide and erasure and the detachment of the Palestinians from their history.

However, memoricide is a phenomenon much broader and more complex than the rubble and ash of its emblematic imagery: Sarajevo’s burning National Library; Afghanistan’s exploded Bamiyan Buddhas; before-and-after satellite images of Syria’s Palmyra.