ifk Lecture: Molly Bernstein: Filastini Footnotes. Palestinian Israeli Literature Across Time and Space

The Palestinian citizens of Israel have always lived between a rock and a hard place, watching as their country goes to war against their nation. A lacuna in research on this group continues to this day—a group sometimes perceived by the Arab world at large as turncoats, sometimes recognized as the core of Palestinian steadfastness, but consistently overlooked for their active influence from within the Israeli parliamentary system.