The Nakba didn’t always mean what it means today. It is a political construct with a political purpose. The displacement happened, the experience was real and profound. It happened to the Jews too, at a vastly larger scale that only ended once they had their own state. But that doesn’t take away from the Palestinian experience. The question is what you want to do with that history. The Nakba narrative, with its pristine victimhood and uncomplicated villainy, is not a description of the past but a vision for the future. It is a call for a new and larger “Nakba” in the other direction.
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