Agnotology in Palestine/Israel: Tantura and the Teddy Katz Affair Twenty Years On.

This article examines the "Teddy Katz Affair," a controversy originating in 2000 when a Jewish Israeli master's thesis, based largely on oral testimonies, alleged that Israeli soldiers committed war crimes in the Palestinian village of Tantura during the 1948 War. The thesis was annulled following a libel suit and institutional pressure, highlighting the broader dynamics of how Palestinian narratives have been marginalized within Israeli historiography. The authors introduce the concept of "agnotology"—the study of culturally and politically produced ignorance—to describe the mechanisms that have silenced Palestinian testimonies and privileged Jewish Israeli accounts in historical discourse. The article also discusses the ongoing challenges faced by Palestinian memory activism and the persistent hierarchies of knowledge that shape the contested remembrance of 1948 within Israel.