Leafing through this book upon receiving it, the discrepancy between the thriving life in Palestine before the Nakba and the Zionist narrative of the barren land was striking. Reading and becoming familiar with the content, Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba (Haymarket Books, 2024), is a vivid testimony that shatters all the myths of Zionism and puts to shame the UN’s role in aiding the European colonial ideology to devastate Palestine to the ultimate genocide being experienced now by Palestinians in Gaza. Mohammed El-Kurd’s foreword impacts immediately with the difference in language. The book is a bilingual English-Arabic edition and El-Kurd notes, “In English, there is a need to riddle the page with facts and figures … Continue reading Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba