Narrazione storica e storiografia come strumenti indispensabili per la costruzione di un sistema coloniale di insediamento: il caso sionista israeliano

The aim of the research is to analyse the evolution of the official Zionist/Israeli historiography around the year 1948 and the creation of the State of Israel, through the prism of the Settler Colonial paradigm. As a matter of fact, this historiography has been strongly linked to the Zionist and Israeli settler colonial establishment and served it in spreading a compromised version of the historical facts around the Israeli “War of Independence” and, in particular, around the birth of the Palestinian refugee problem. What is new in settler colonial contexts compared to other types of colonialism is the so-called logic of elimination of the natives, that means that the aim of the settler is to eliminate the native, both physically and discursively. This logic has been largely used in this research to demonstrate the Israeli responsibility in creating the Palestinian refugee problem. In historiographical terms, the logic of elimination of the natives has been translated into what has been called as the “narrative transfer”, a narrative expedient to literally transfer the natives away from history and from historiography.