Until the year 1948, the Palestinians who were to become citizens in the State of Israel following its establishment were an integral part of the fabric of Palestinian society, and of resistance to the colonialist project of the Zionist movement, which strove to create an exclusive Jewish state in Palestine. In the aftermath of the Palestinian Nakba, which constitutes the other side of the founding of the State of Israel on the greater part of the Palestinian homeland, and the fragmentation and collapse of Palestinian society, a new chapter unfolded in the history of the Palestinians in Israel–indeed of all Palestinians–the roots of which lie in the period before the Nakba that started in 1948. The start of the Nakba in 1948, and its consequences, is a defining event in this history, one that has affected all the formations of Palestinian society, socially, politically and culturally, in a variety of ways that have yet to be studied.
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