A 2019 investigation by the Israeli NGO Akevot and Haaretz newspaper has uncovered official suppression of crucial documents about the Nakba in Israeli archives. The Journal is publishing print excerpts and a full online version of the buried “Migration Report,” which details Israel’s depopulation of Palestinian villages in the first six months of the 1947-48 war, a document that clearly undermines official Israeli state narratives about the dispossession. In methodical fashion, this report provides contemporaneous documentation of Israeli culpability in the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and the systematic depopulation of so-called Arab villages in the first six months of the war. Alongside a discussion of key revelations in the newly available document, this introduction situates the broader pattern of erasure within historiographical debates over 1948 and questions of archival access. It examines how accounts of Israel’s birth and Palestinian statelessness have been crafted in relation to the underlying question: who is permitted to narrate the past?

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以色列非政府组织 Akevot 和 Haaretz 报纸在 2019 年进行的一项调查发现，官方压制了以色列档案中有关灾难的重要文件。该杂志正在出版被埋葬的“移民报告”的印刷版摘录和完整的在线版本，其中详细描述了以色列在 1947-48 年战争的前六个月内对巴勒斯坦村庄的人口减少，该文件显然破坏了以色列官方关于剥夺的叙述. 本报告以有条不紊的方式提供了以色列在战争头六个月将巴勒斯坦人驱逐出家园和所谓的阿拉伯村庄的系统性人口减少的同期文件。除了讨论新可用文件中的关键启示外，本介绍将更广泛的擦除模式置于 1948 年的史学辩论和档案访问问题中。它考察了以色列的出生和巴勒斯坦无国籍状态的描述是如何与潜在问题相关的：谁被允许讲述过去？