ABSTRACT
Through the collection, arrangement and interpretation of materials, institutional archives provide an epistemologically secure authority for the state and other hegemonic interests. B'Tselem's multi-media interactive map is a cartographic archive of expulsion, physical abuse by colonial settlers and the Israeli security forces, as well as an archive of resistance, documenting the demonstrations that have taken place and the often excessive force used against peaceful demonstrators. Countless websites and blogs were established to host, document and disseminate information about the revolution. Israel has made significant attempts to erase the existence of Palestinians from a range of discursive arenas, in the media, textbooks, cartography, the landscape, histories and archives. The exhibitions and projects undertaken by the new Palestinian Museum also attest to the importance of archiving as a means of forestalling erasure. There is an absence in the Algerian archives. The 'withdrawal of tradition' and archival absence is also addressed in Katia Kameli's film, The Algerian Novel (Chapter One).
