Nakba

Why deradicalizing Gaza’s youth will be the hardest battle - opinion

“All Jews are sh**...” “I want to be ‘shaheed’ [martyr] next week,” and “Hitler is the best,” reads an exercise book found by the IDF in Gaza during the war.

|ByIAN LLOYD NEUBAUER
UNRWA COMMISSIONER-GENERAL Philippe Lazzarini speaks in Cairo in September. He had claimed that UNRWA didn’t know what was ‘under its headquarters,’ and fired a handful of terrorists, but it wasn’t just a few bad apples, says the writer.
People rally to mark the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on February 24, 2023.

Jewish group urges halt to ‘Nakba’ exhibit at Canadian Museum of Human Rights

Introducing the exhibit just two years after the October 7 Hamas attacks "raises further alarm," says AGPI, warning the display risks emboldening extremist rhetoric.

|ByTHE MEDIA LINE STAFF
An UNRWA photo of Palestinians having an open-air school in Jericho after what they have dubbed the Nakba.

Britain created the first wave of Arab refugees from Palestine

The Palestinian disaster as dispossessed, stateless refugees precedes the founding of Israel by more than two decades and can be blamed on Perfidious Albion (aka the UK) rather than the Jewish state.

|ByGIL ZOHAR
THEN-US PRESIDENT Joe Biden is joined by President Isaac Herzog and then-prime minister Yair Lapid at Yad Vashem in 2022. Israel ferries foreign officials to the Hall of Remembrance instead of focusing on the Jewish connection to the land, says the writer.

Politicizing the Holocaust: It has come back to bite Israel - opinion

Instead of politicizing the Holocaust, Israel should have focused its efforts on demonstrating the Jewish historical connection to the land.

|ByJULIAN WOOD

There must not be a second Nakba - editorial

Itamar Fleischman suggested that the best way to deal with Palestinian nationalist sentiment in Israel was to make them live in constant fear.

DECEMBER 14, 2021ByJPOST EDITORIAL
ARAB-ISRAELI STUDENTS at Tel Aviv University mark Nakba (‘catastrophe’) Day commemorating Israeli independence, on May 14, 2018.

Arabs need to be reminded of Nakba - ex-Bennett, Netanyahu spokesman

A former spokesman for Naftali Bennett said that Arabs needed to be "reminded of the Nakba" on a Channel 14 panel.

DECEMBER 9, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Screenshot of tweet of Channel 14 panel with Itamar Fleischmann

Grapevine May 14, 2021: Getting worse before it gets better

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MAY 13, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN with Muslim ambassadors and local Arab leaders at the Iftar dinner that he hosted at the President’s Residence.

Canceling election, Nakba Day and Ramadan could cause eruption - analysis

The most immediate milestone could arise if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas calls off the election for the Palestinian Legislative Council

APRIL 29, 2021ByUDI SHAHAM
PALESTINIANS CELEBRATE Nakba Day at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate in 2014

Deir Yassin Massacre: What really happened? - opinion

The Friday tour is not an exercise in the memorialization of a tragedy, but the attempt to pervert the historical record.

APRIL 7, 2021ByYISRAEL MEDAD
PALESTINIANS CLASH with Israeli security forces during a protest last year, marking the 72nd anniversary of their ‘Nakba’ in the West Bank village of Sawiya, near Nablus.

Palestinians in bid to secure renewal of UNRWA mandate

PA urges donors to honor financial obligations to Palestinians.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
A child walks in front of a mural painting depicting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on her way to a school run by United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus on August 29, 2018

North African tolerance

“Why not build a memorial for the victims of the Israeli Holocaust against the children of Sabra, Shatila, Deir Yassin, Jenin, Gaza and Qana?”

AUGUST 29, 2019ByJPOST EDITORIAL
THEN-PRESIDENT Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and his wife Rachel Yana’it Ben-Zvi with new immigrants from North Africa, aboard the ship ‘Negba’ in 1955.

The Pink Flour Mill – history as romance

While Hannun’s account is kitchen-table history, what actually happened was that the overwhelming majority of Mandate Arabs left what was then the newly-established State of Israel on their own accor

MAY 25, 2019ByALAN MEYER
Demonstrators hold Palestinian flags during a protest marking the 71st anniversary of the 'Nakba', or catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands fled or were forced from their homes in the war surrounding Israel's independence in 1948, near the Israel-Gaza border fence, in the southern Gaza Strip May 1

Hamas ‘salute’ Jeremy Corbyn for Nakba rally support

Chairman of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, Gideon Falter, said: ‘Clearly Hamas feels that when it comes to Jews, Jeremy Corbyn is a brother in arms.

MAY 17, 2019ByBENJY SINGER
Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn acknowledges his audience prior to giving his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, Britain, September 27, 2017.

Pro-Israel students counter Nakba Day at Tel Aviv University

Arab-Israeli students decried the 'catastrophe' of 1948 while Jewish-Israeli students celebrated the founding of the State of Israel at Tel Aviv University.

MAY 16, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A poster shown at the Nakba Day commemorations in Tel Aviv University