Israel-Palestine

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• 6/25/2023
  

  Martha Hodes Talks "My Hijacking" with HNN

  by Michan Connor

  In 1970, when she was 12, Martha Hodes was held hostage for nearly a week in a campaign of airline hijacking that captured world attention. She discusses trauma and erasure in the historical record, the roles of remembering and forgetting in shaping views of the past, and how she investigated herself as a historial actor. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  6/12/2023
  

  Martha Hodes Turns Historian's Training to Reach Memory Hidden by Trauma

  A memoirist of her own experience of terrorist hostage-taking reviews Martha Hodes's effort to apply the tools of historians to recover memory of being held in the Jordanian desert on a hijacked plane in 1970. 

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• SOURCE: American Historical Review
  9/19/2022
  

  "As if I Wasn't There": Writing from a Child's Memory

  by Martha Hodes

  Writing her own memory of being held hostage by terrorists forced the author to put herself at the center of the story. 

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• SOURCE: mesana.org
  2/28/2022
  

  Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Letter to University of Washington

  The association is concerned that the University of Washington defunded an endowed chair in Israel Studies after donors complained about the faculty member's statements as a private citizen criticizing Israeli policies in Gaza.