Abstract
A popular large Israeli postcard features a picture of a serving of falafel in half a pita, into which an Israeli flag has been stuck. The postcard, produced by a Jewish publishing house, bears the caption: ‘Falafel—Israel's national snack’ (figure 1). This apparently innocuous postcard is in fact a most telling metonymy of the political as well as symbolic domination of Jews over Arabs in contemporary Israel: Falafel, little balls of ground chick-peas fried in oil, is an Arab dish which was appropriated by Israeli Jewish culinary culture and made into an Israeli dish; it becomes an expression of political domination by means of the Israeli flag stuck into the food.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 210-220 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | History of Photography |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1995 |
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