From Silence to Resistance: Second-Generation Palestinians in Germany.
Germany, home to Europe's largest Palestinian community, excludes Israeli state violence from public discourse. Although the ongoing Nakba—the systematic and continuing forced displacement of Palestinians from historic Palestine—is deeply entangled with the history of German Nazism, it remains unack...
| Publicado en: | Middle East Critique Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 127 - 150 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2026
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