An example of Tel Aviv's Bauhaus architecture (Photo via)
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Sharon Rotbard
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The Etzel Museum, which celebrates the history of the Irgun, a Zionist militia
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"When my book came out it was a great shock for people that thought they were not part of it," he told me. "Tel Aviv preferred to write itself an architectural history that excludes certain political facts. So a lot of young people read the book and were astonished that their park was once a Palestinian neighbourhood." This realisation was an uncomfortable one for Israelis who had no desire to be complicit in dispossession. "Some people living in gentrified Jaffa or the White City in Tel Aviv told me that they had to change their apartment. That happened about ten times."After leaving the cafe we walked around the area that inspired much of the book, taking in just a few of the places left out by the city's official architectural narrative from crumbling wells that once served to water Jaffa's orchards to the land where the oranges were once made.If these stories are easy to forget in favour of the White City myth, others are not. Just across the road from Rotbard's house, we paused outside a Kindergarten recently used by the children of African refugees. From 2006 to 2012 tens of thousands of asylum seekers flooded across the Sinai desert looking for a better life in Israel – many of them ending up in South Tel Aviv. To counter what they saw as a threat to the Jewish character of the city, a group of West Bank settlers moved into the area in what ultimately lead to anti-African riots and an attack on the school.Over on Noisey: We Asked Deep Philosophical Questions to People at Stone Circle
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