The Hebrew original omits the word humanity when describing displaced Arab villagers

Evidence

Signs of the base, an empty Arab village, became more frequent. Interrupted echoes. An abandoned anthill. The stench of desertion, the rot of humanity [the word “humanity” is not in the Hebrew original], infested, louse-ridden. The poverty and stupefaction of wretched villagers. Tatters of human existence. A sudden exposure of the limits of their home, their yards, and of all within. They were revealed in their nakedness, impoverished, shriveled, and stinking. Sudden emptiness. Death by apoplexy. Strangeness, hostility, bereavement. An air of mourning-or was it boredom?-hovered there in the heat of the day. Whichever it doesn’t matter. (297-98/H94-95) Between life and death, what insists through the complex multiplicity of voices is a peculiar “unconcern,” then. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 588

Categorization

• XREF: Directly engages the antisemitism-Islamophobia bridge — the Hebrew omission of ‘humanity’ for Arabs parallels how the genre denies the humanity of its figures.