TY - JOUR
T1 - On media, memory and laws
T2 - The Israeli ‘law commemorating the exile of Jews from Arab countries and Iran’ (2014) as a case study
AU - Tirosh, Noam
AU - Gutman, Yifat
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Intellect Ltd Article.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - This study joins the ongoing, yet marginalized, scholarly attempt to connect between law, memory and the media. We focus on a unique memory law: The ‘Law Commemorating the Exile of Jews from Arab Countries and Iran’ enacted in the Israeli parliament in 2014. The law aims to make official a long-silenced memory of the dispossession and suffering inflicted on Jewish residents of major Arab states and of Iran by local authorities as a reaction to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. By a systematic analysis of the law, the mediated discourse that followed its enactment and of the media fare on these commemoration days, this study uncovers the complex interrelations between law, media and society’s memory. This study highlights an interesting process. At the ‘negotiation stage’, which precedes the actual enactment of the law, different memory actors promote varied narratives and create a public atmosphere that might support the political processes that lead to the enactment of a new memory law. When the law is enacted and by dictating special commemoration events and designated memorial days, the law creates signified temporal structures that the media, in turn, identify as important and highlight
AB - This study joins the ongoing, yet marginalized, scholarly attempt to connect between law, memory and the media. We focus on a unique memory law: The ‘Law Commemorating the Exile of Jews from Arab Countries and Iran’ enacted in the Israeli parliament in 2014. The law aims to make official a long-silenced memory of the dispossession and suffering inflicted on Jewish residents of major Arab states and of Iran by local authorities as a reaction to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. By a systematic analysis of the law, the mediated discourse that followed its enactment and of the media fare on these commemoration days, this study uncovers the complex interrelations between law, media and society’s memory. This study highlights an interesting process. At the ‘negotiation stage’, which precedes the actual enactment of the law, different memory actors promote varied narratives and create a public atmosphere that might support the political processes that lead to the enactment of a new memory law. When the law is enacted and by dictating special commemoration events and designated memorial days, the law creates signified temporal structures that the media, in turn, identify as important and highlight
KW - Arab-Jews
KW - Collective memory
KW - Commemoration days
KW - Israel
KW - Law and memory
KW - Media-memory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067928075&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1386/macp.15.1.49_1
DO - 10.1386/macp.15.1.49_1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067928075
VL - 15
SP - 49
EP - 68
JO - International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics
JF - International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics
SN - 1740-8296
IS - 1
ER -