Posts Tagged: Nakba
Will Seattle ‘Nakba Day’ Rally Celebrate Axe Murderers?
The Seattle "Nakba Day" rally poster includes a massive dog whistle for glorifying terrorists. The top line says, "All glory to our land and life defenders,"...
AP Conflates Palestinian ‘Refugee’ Myth With Millions Displaced During Pandemic
The Associated Press (AP) on June 18 promoted a contentious Palestinian narrative in an article ostensibly focused on a United Nations report detailing the plight...
The Unlearned ‘Nakba’ Lesson About Compromise
JNS.org - Palestinian Arabs continue to learn the wrong history lesson. On May 15, as they do every year, they relive the sorrow of 1948,...
May 14, 1948 — Miracle or Catastrophe?
On May 14, 1948, Israel declared its independence. Shortly thereafter, five Arab states invaded to join Palestinian fighters in a campaign to destroy the new...
The Legacy of the ‘Nakba’ and Lies About Israel on College Campuses
JNS.org - Many students on college campuses these days hear the lie that Israel has murdered entirely innocent, unarmed protesters in the Gaza Strip. They...
Shocking Antisemitism in Brooklyn
As Israel celebrated its 71st anniversary last month, a group called Within Our Lifetime-United for Palestine, an offshoot of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP),...
The True History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and the ‘Nakba’
To be clear, and contrary to Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)'s fake "narrative" (where Palestinian Arabs are the innocent victims of the Jewish people regaining sovereignty...
Palestinians Need to Rethink the ‘Nakba,’ Not Refight It
JNS.org - The debates about Holocaust references made by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) are starting to die down. Like almost everything that happens these days,...
‘Nakba Day’ Simply Infantilizes Arab Aggression
JNS.org - Imagine if Germans annually mourned the fact that Nazi Germany lost World War II, and called its failure to wipe out the Jews...
The Real Catastrophe for the Palestinians
JNS.org - Every year on May 15, Palestinians commemorate Nakba Day. The nakba or “catastrophe” refers to the displacement of Palestinians after Israel’s independence in 1948. This concept...
‘Nakba,’ ‘Naksa’ … Nowhere
JNS.org - When it comes to the Palestinian “original sin” theory of Israel’s creation, there are two key milestones: the flight of approximately 750,000 Arab refugees...
Did the Palestinians Ever Really Recognize Israel?
According to reports in various news outlets, including Al Jazeera and The Times of Israel, the Palestinian National Council (PNC), the legislative body of the PLO and the official...
Ten Basic Facts About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
In all the discussion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- and the quest for a solution -- some basic facts are too often missing, neglected, downplayed or skewed. Not...
Arabs and Turks Welcomed the Balfour Declaration
"One hundred years have passed since the notorious Balfour Declaration, by which Britain gave, without any right, authority or consent from anyone, the land of...
