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The contemporary Nakba narrative is a masterpiece of ahistorical distortion and antisemitic propaganda. It casts the events of 75 years ago as a monstrous crime successfully committed by Jews against Palestinians
BOSTON GLOBE The real origin of the Palestinians’ catastrophe Jeff Jacoby May 14, 2023 MAY 15 IS the anniversary of Israel’s birth in 1948. It is also the date on which Palestinians in recent years have commemorated their Nakba, or … Continue reading
“In violating the UN Charter and violently seeking to prevent the implementation of Resolution 181, the Arab coalition in 1948 was also attempting to block the first major UN effort at peacemaking in an international conflict”
UNHERD The UN is distorting the meaning of the Nakba Shany Mor May 15, 2023 …The political evolution of the word nakba in the decades following 1948 is the story of how a defeat was refashioned into an injustice. The … Continue reading
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Bernie Sanders assists Democrat congresswoman commemorating “catastrophe” that created Israel
NEW YORK POST Rashida Tlaib hosts anti-Israel event at the Capitol despite Kevin McCarthy’s move to block it Victor Nava and Josh Christenson May 10, 2023 Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Wednesday held an event at the Capitol decrying the … Continue reading
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The Nakba story, “perhaps the most persistent big lie of the past 75 years”
COMMENTARY The Truth Behind the Palestinian ‘Catastrophe’ Sol Stern March 2023 Israel will soon celebrate the 75th anniversary of its independence. Around the same time, Palestinians will stage their annual Nakba Day, the official commemoration held every year on May … Continue reading
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United Nations to commemorate Palestinian Nakba next year after 90-30 vote with 47 abstentions
I24NEWS UN resolution calls Israel’s founding a ‘catastrophe’ Josh Marks December 1, 2022 The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution to mark the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948 as a “catastrophe.” Palestinians consider … Continue reading
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The term “Nakba” was first referenced in George Antonius’s influential 1938 book “The Arab Awakening” and had nothing to do with Israel; it referred to the “post-WWI creation of the modern Middle East”
BESA CENTER The False “Nakba” Narrative by Col (Res.) Dr. Raphael G. Bouchnik-Chen April 16, 2019 The term “Nakba,” originally coined to describe the magnitude of the self-inflicted Palestinian and Arab defeat in the 1948 war, has become in recent … Continue reading
At the new Palestinian Museum, lights are on, but nobody’s home
JEWISH PRESS What If They Built a $24 Million ‘Palestinian Museum’ and There Was Nothing to Show by David Israel May 16, 2016 The $24 million Palestinian Museum is slated to open on Wednesday this week in Bir Zeit, about … Continue reading
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Tagged Nakba, Palestinian Museum, Welfare Association
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A “Nakba” Museum in Washington, DC?
MIDDLE EAST FORUM by Michel Gurfinkiel April 24, 2015 Bshara Nassar — a self-described “peacebuilder and social entrepreneur, a graduate of Bethlehem University, Palestine,” with “a master’s degree in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University” – leads a campaign called … Continue reading
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Tagged Holocaust, Nakba, Nakba Museum Project of Memory and Hope
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From The Arab News, May 15: Nakba or defeat?
THE ARAB NEWS By Abdulateef Al-Mulhim May 14, 2014 A few weeks ago, many people in the Arab world heard a name, Joshua Teitelbaum, an Israeli senior fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Goldman visiting … Continue reading
Palestinians harness technology to create iNakba app to find their former homes
TIMES OF ISRAEL By AFP May 5, 2014 Israeli NGO’s project aims to promote campaign to recognize right of Arab refugees to return to their homes An Israeli NGO launched a smartphone app on Monday that allows users to find … Continue reading
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