"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a slick, four-minute City Hall-produced video on Friday afternoon, timing it just before the Jewish Sabbath, marking Nakba Day, the Palestinian commemoration of Israel’s founding. The move drew immediate and furious condemnation from Jewish leaders across the city. What made it more than a political provocation was what the video left out: Arab armies that invaded a nascent Jewish state with the stated goal of its destruction, the 800,000 Jews expelled from Arab lands, the Jewish neighborhoods ethnically cleansed in Jerusalem, and the Arab rejection of a partition plan that could have created a Palestinian state without a single shot being fired." FULL STORY at above link.
“Nakba is Arabic for ‘catastrophe,’” the text in the video said. “It refers to the expulsion and displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.”“The Haganah, Irgun and Lehi militias, among others, destroyed more than 400 Palestinian villages and cities, killing thousands of Palestinians and carrying out dozens of massacres,” the video said. “May 15 is the annual commemoration of the Nakba. For Palestinians, their displacement and the Nakba continue to this day.” FULL STORY at above link.