{"id":8488,"date":"2022-05-15T11:11:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T09:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=8488"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:18:50","slug":"from-the-editor-on-being-palestinian-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/from-the-editor-on-being-palestinian-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Editor: On Being &#8220;Palestinian&#8221; in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8490\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8490 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tmr-21-\u2022-palestinian-israeli-banner-1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tmr-21-\u2022-palestinian-israeli-banner-1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tmr-21-\u2022-palestinian-israeli-banner-1200-600x422.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tmr-21-\u2022-palestinian-israeli-banner-1200-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tmr-21-\u2022-palestinian-israeli-banner-1200-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tmr-21-\u2022-palestinian-israeli-banner-1200-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fouad Agbaria, &#8220;Across the Borderline,&#8221; oil on canvas, 150x200cm, 2015 (courtesy of the artist).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Jordan Elgrably<\/h4>\n<p>What precisely to call our May 15th, 2022 issue was a prickly matter, leading to a heated discussion and volleys of emails back and forth to several Palestinians with Israeli citizenship. Some still prefer to be thought of as &#8220;&#8217;48 Palestinians,&#8221; born west of what Israel called the Green Line; and still others refused to address the matter at all, while almost everyone concerned identified simply as &#8220;Palestinian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/can-the-bilingual-speak-thoughts-on-the-arabic-hebrew-mind\/\">Anton Shammas<\/a> \u2014 a Palestinian Arab author and translator living in the United States, suggested that we &#8220;stick to the definition &#8216;Palestinian citizens of Israel,&#8217; and avoid using the oxymoron &#8216;Palestinian Israeli(s),&#8217; as there\u2019s no such thing, let alone a &#8216;Palestinian identity in the context of Israeli nationality&#8217; &#8230; There\u2019s no &#8216;Israeli&#8217; nationality, and there are no &#8216;Israelis&#8217; in Israel \u2014 citizens of that state, which defines itself, by law, as a Jewish state, are defined according to their ethnicity. Under &#8216;nationality&#8217; in the Israeli ID it would say either &#8216;Jewish&#8217; or &#8216;Arab,&#8217; not &#8216;Israeli.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8491\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shireen_Abu_Akleh\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8491\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pictures_of_Shireen_Abu_Akleh_in_the_streets_of_Jerusalem-598x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pictures_of_Shireen_Abu_Akleh_in_the_streets_of_Jerusalem-598x1024.jpeg 598w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pictures_of_Shireen_Abu_Akleh_in_the_streets_of_Jerusalem-600x1027.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pictures_of_Shireen_Abu_Akleh_in_the_streets_of_Jerusalem-175x300.jpeg 175w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pictures_of_Shireen_Abu_Akleh_in_the_streets_of_Jerusalem-768x1314.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pictures_of_Shireen_Abu_Akleh_in_the_streets_of_Jerusalem.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posters of Shireen Abu Akleh seen in Jerusalem, following her May 11, 2022 murder in Jenin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Shammas was referring to the stark reality of Israel&#8217;s 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/palestinian-filmmaker-israeli-passport\/\">Nation-State Law<\/a>, which made it clear to Israel&#8217;s Arab citizens that they were going to remain less than equal in the eyes of the law. Some Palestinian citizens of Israel, including prominent actor Makram Khoury, who was the first Arab to win the Israel Prize, the highest civic honor in Israel, feel conflicted about identifying as an Israeli when it comes to the state funding that backs their film and theatre projects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m not prepared to sign a loyalty declaration, and then to go represent Israel around the world when I\u2019m not really considered a citizen in the total sense,&#8221; Khoury told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-great-exodus-of-palestinian-filmmakers-out-of-israel-1.9751091\">Haaretz<\/a>\u00a0last month. &#8220;I\u2019m made to feel like I\u2019m a guest here, and people forget that I\u2019m the real native for generations in this land. So the lack of respect, or the lack of recognition, is disturbing. Today I\u2019m hesitant to submit my screenplays to the foundations, and I imagine that there are many others like me,\u201d he says.\u00a0\u201cI am a citizen, for all the dismay of [Culture Minister Miri] Regev and people like her, and I\u2019m confident that the nation-state law will be amended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Markaz Review is pleased to feature work from Jenine Abboushi, Asmaa Azaizeh, Maurice Ebileeni, khulud khamis, Brett Kline, Sheren Falah Saab and Anton Shammas, among others. Our featured artist this month is <a href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/fouad-agbaria-featured-artist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fouad Agbaria<\/a>, a native of the Galilee whose paintings have been exhibited from Beirut to Ramallah and beyond. We dedicate our 21st issue to the memory of slain Palestinian American journalist, the much-beloved <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shireen_Abu_Akleh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shireen Abu Akleh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to continue the discussion on the &#8220;Palestinian Israeli?&#8221; question, or respond to anything writers present in their work, please forward your comment to us at editor@themarkaz.org, and we&#8217;ll put you directly in touch with that writer or artist.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading and supporting The Markaz Review.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TMR&#8217;s chief editor reveals the behind-the-screens reality of naming the May 2022 issue, when &#8220;Palestinian Israeli&#8221; is a contested identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":23723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24,70],"tags":[1297,1811],"article-category":[],"article-type":[4659],"coauthors":[2196],"class_list":["post-8488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial","category-review","category-tmr-21-palestinian-israeli","tag-palestinian-citizens-of-israel","tag-who-is-palestinian-what-is-an-israeli-nation-state-law","article-type-editorial"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.5 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>From the Editor: On Being &quot;Palestinian&quot; 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