Haviv Rettig Gur
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
Shany Mor שני מור شني مور
In my @unherd post today, I discuss the UN's "Nakba Day" commemoration. Referring to the events of 1948 as a "nakba," Arabic for "disaster," originates with the book "The Meaning of Disaster" by Constantine Zureiq, published as the war was ending. 1/15 https://unherd.com/thepost/the-un-is-distorting-the-meaning-of-the-nakba/