Tracing Homelands is a beautifully written memoir that traces the author’s gradual coming to terms with the human cost to Palestinians of Israel’s emergence as a state in 1948—or as she puts it, the “slow and painful process of peeling the film off my eyes.” Growing up in Mandate Palestine, Linda Dittmar was raised by Jewish parents who seem to have been dovish in their political inclinations, but still fell in line with the Zionist project. Although they knew about the Deir Yassin massacre and were aware of the depopulation of the village of Summayl, which was practically on their doorstep, these matters were not spoken about. The myth of a God-ordained refuge for much-abused Jews was too soothing to question.
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