Jewish organizations and elected officials criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after his office released a “Nakba Day” video that they said omitted key historical context surrounding Israel’s founding and promoted an anti-Israel narrative.
United with Israel The video, posted Friday by the mayor’s office, focused on so-called “Palestinian” displacement during the 1948 war surrounding the establishment of the State of Israel. It includes testimony from a “Palestinian” resident describing her family’s departure from Jerusalem and characterized the Nakba as an ongoing experience for Palestinians. Critics also said the video ignored the expulsion of Jewish populations from multiple Arab countries after Israel’s establishment.
The post drew immediate backlash from Jewish groups and pro-Israel lawmakers, who argued that the presentation failed to mention Arab military attacks following Israel’s declaration of independence, the rejection of the United Nations partition plan, and the displacement of Jewish communities across the Middle East. “Twenty-two Arab states launched a war to destroy Israel on May 15, 1948,” the UJA-Federation said, adding that the conflict also resulted in the expulsion of more than “800,000 Jewish refugees from Arab nations across the region.”
The controversy unfolded as demonstrations marking “Nakba Day” took place in Manhattan. Protesters marched through the streets carrying Hezbollah flags and chanting slogans calling for the destruction of Israel.
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The mayor’s office video described Palestinian displacement as part of a continuing historical experience, a framing that opponents said lacked historical balance and excluded the experiences of Jewish refugees displaced from Arab countries after 1948.
Until Israel was re-established as a nation in 1948, Palestine was the term for the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The word Palestinian was applied to anyone living in that area.
r/IsraelPalestine What many are unaware of is that, historically only Jews in the 30s and 40s used to referred to themselves as Palestinian. There were Palestinian soccer teams, the Palestinian Post (later the Jerusalem post) all created by and run by Jews. In 1948, after the establishment of Israel, the jews started to call themselves Israeli, and the name Palestinian essentially evaporated. You ask an Arab in 1950 in Gaza if he was Palestinian and he’d proudly tell you NO. He was an Arab.
Why? Because Arabs in the region at the time just viewed themselves as Arabs, with no meaningful distinction between Arabs in the levant and Syria/Jordan etc. In fact, many Arabs back then didn’t want their own country but rather to be part of Greater Syria.
Pro-Palestinian activists are so adamant about diminishing any Jewish connection to the land, and are so passionate about arguing that the land is exclusively Palestinian, it’s important to be aware of the full story and not let propaganda get in the way of actual history. The idea that Palestinians existed as a distinct ethnicity – different from surrounding Arabs – is simply not true.
This all changed when Yasser Arafat (himself an Egyptian) decided in the 1960s to starting using the name Palestine to create a new national identity that previously did not exist. In doing so, Arafat also stole ‘ Free Palestine’ – previously used by Jews in the levant, and much more.
The Palestinian identity is young and, contrary to propaganda, doesn’t stretch back for thousands of years. The Palestinian identity – in using the term Jews used to refer to themselves as – was purposefully used to deligitmize Israel and assert an Arab claim to the land.
Back then, no one suggested Arab Muslims should be known as“Palestinians,” and for good reason. Palestine, then a secular way of saying Eretz Israel, embodied a purely Jewish and Christian concept, one utterly foreign to Moslems, even repugnant to them. Further, there has never been an independent state in Palestine ruled by Muslims; such states that were brought into existence were ruled either by Jews or Christians.
In other words, the term “Palestine,” which today symbolizes the Arab rejection of Israel, served the Jews not long ago as the symbol of Jewish nationalism.
Ultimately, Palestinian nationalism originated in Zionism; were it not for the existence of another people who saw British Palestine as their national home, the Arabs would have continued to view this area as a province of Greater Syria.
I really don’t believe how people fell for the lie that he is a Democrat, a socialist or whatever, when he is a Muslim. A Muslim, by definition cannot be democratic, because Islam does not consider all people equal and with equal rights, and with freedom of exression.
And if they claim they are atheists [like Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker], unless they explicitly say that Allah is not God, they are faking. They so easily say that Jesus Christ is not God, why wouldn’t they say it for Allah, too?
So, please, Bonni, when you have a post about such deceivers working for the destruction of our judeochristian civilization, don’t forget to always mention, that “A Muslim by definition cannot be democratic, because Islam does not consider all people equal and with equal rights”. Maybe,possibly, hopefully, there might be a chance that people will get it.
Good advice.
The “Nakbah” was the sole making of the countries of Egypt, Transjordan (Jordan), Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, along with local Arab militias. They got the word out to the local Arabs living in the British Mandate to lock up their houses and temporarily go to Transjordan while they attacked Israel and wiped its Jewish inhabitants off the map. In 1948, immediately after Israel declared independence, the Arab armies and local Arab militia attacked Israel simultaneously.
After the war, the local Arabs that, went to Transjordan, were supposed to come back to their homes and Israel was supposed to have been obliterated. It did not work out according to their plan, and Israel would not let the Arabs that left return. On the other hand, in the wake of Israel’s War of Independence, Arabs that did not leave were granted Israeli citizenship, although they were subjected to martial law until 1966 at which point, they had equal citizenship rights.
Mamdani and his video conveniently omits this bit of history. Mamdani has to go, even if he has to go by force. He is on a path to bankrupting the City, and his vile hatred of the Jews and his pro-Muslim stance sanctions the Muzzies to invade the Jewish areas of the City and cause trouble, and it emboldens the Muzzies to snarl traffic and block off Times Square and other areas of the City to stick their asses in the air in praise of Allah, may he and Muhamad be cursed!
From your lips to God’s ears.
Vidal Sassoon was fighting for Israel in the War of Independence — he was one tough hair stylist!
As for the Arabpigs: Happy Nakba futhermuckers!
The true Nakba occurred the day Mohammad was born.
Or when the Arbs kicked every last Jew out of heir countries in 1948.
Who in their right mind would want to live in an islamic sh!tehole state? Thank G-d for Israel!
Especially a shithole of monumental proportions like Egyptstan, the worst simmering Hellhole on God’s green 🌎 Earth 🌎.