El postsionismo y la cuestión palestina-israelí. Fisuras, reacciones y continuidad

Abstract

The article aims to analyze the concept and phenomenon of post-Zionism, focusing on the academic debate that took place in the 1990s, led by a current of revisionist historians who formed the so-called “new Israeli historiography”. These schoolars, who had access to primary and direct sources of information until then classified, deconstruct the main founding myths of the State of Israel, questioning the official ideology of the State, Zionism, and validating the previous work of Palestinian authors that had been ignored. This event, coinciding with the First Intifada, had a great impact on Israel's international image and on future researches on Palestine.

Likewise, we consider the generational component and the influence that the so-called “post-Zionism” and especially its academic manifestation, could have on the collective memory of Israeli society and on the historiography regarding Palestine and Israel, both internally and in the international arena. We consider essential the ideological context, where Zionism remains hegemonic and the decisive political thought in the history of Palestine and Israel. For this reason, it is also essential to assess the possible fractures and disagreements in this regard, focusing on the academic field, especially historiography, due to the influence that this can have on the formation of opinion regarding the Palestinian-Israeli question and as a bibliographic base of other investigations.