Afforestation: Memory, and the Politics of Landscape in Jerusalem
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This article examines the Zionist afforestation campaigns—spearheaded by the Jewish National Fund—as tools of settler colonialism aimed at reshaping Palestine’s natural and historical landscape. Far from environmental restoration, these efforts concealed dispossession and transformed indigenous spaces into symbols of erasure. Through historical and environmental analysis, this article explores how trees became instruments of ideological domination, replacing rooted Palestinian life with manufactured narratives of belonging.
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