Israel Foreign Ministry Rebukes NYC Mayor Over 700,000 Nakba Post as It Cites 850,000 Jewish Refugees
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Updated · JNS.org · May 16
Israel Foreign Ministry Rebukes NYC Mayor Over 700,000 Nakba Post as It Cites 850,000 Jewish Refugees
10 articles · Updated · JNS.org · May 16
Israel’s Foreign Ministry publicly attacked New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after he marked Nakba Day with a video of a New Yorker he called a “Nakba survivor.”
Mamdani said the day commemorates the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during Israel’s creation and the following year.
The ministry rejected that framing, saying the 1948 exodus followed Arab rejection of the 1947 U.N. partition plan and a war launched to destroy Israel.
It also pointed to roughly 850,000 Jews forced to flee Arab countries from 1948 to 1970, casting them as the conflict’s overlooked victims.
Is the 1948 'Nakba' a closed historical chapter, or an ongoing process visible in Gaza and the West Bank today?
Why is the displacement of 850,000 Jews from Arab lands often excluded from the 1948 refugee narrative?
As historical narratives fuel modern conflict, what would a shared Israeli-Palestinian account of 1948 even look like?