I co-founded Wikipedia, but an anonymous mob runs the showโand now Iโm banned.
I told the story in the Washington Examiner, out this morning:
https://t.co/IubzC65BoC
Alex Karp on NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani:
โObviously someone who has no work experience ever, who has views that have never worked, should not be put in charge of the most important enterprise of its kind, maybe in the world.โ
This is a devious rhetorical trick. Labeling someone a โNakba survivorโ is designed to evoke instant sympathy and a false sense of moral clarity, but it is little more than taxpayer-funded propaganda.
Consider the absurdity: roughly 99% of Palestinian Arabs alive in 1949 survived the war and its displacements. Calling the displaced a โsurvivorโ stretches the word beyond recognition. It is a newly coined term, crafted in academia and activist circles long after the events.
Its real genius lies in creating false equivalence. It places ordinary Palestinian civilians who were displaced amid a war their own leaders launched on the same moral plane as Holocaust survivors (of whom only about one-third emerged alive).
It airbrushes away the ~6,000 Jews killed in 1948, elevates the ~12,000 Arab deaths, and erases the thousands of Jews forcibly expelled from the Old City of Jerusalem and other areas.
By anointing the displaced as sacred โsurvivors,โ the term invites us to forget that the Nazi-aligned Palestinian leadership rejected the UN partition plan, chose war to prevent any Jewish state, and promised quick victory while urging Arabs to flee.
It glosses over Israelโs Declaration of Independence, which explicitly invited Arab inhabitants to โparticipate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship.โ And it conveniently overlooks the ~150,000 Arabs who stayed put, accepted Israeli citizenship, and whose descendants now form over 20% of Israelโs population.
This is international grievance politics pushed by the Mayor of New York City, who genuinely believes that Palestinians should be able to โreturn to their homesโ โ a nonsensical idea designed to justify perpetual victimhood and violence.
The move weaponizes real civilian hardship while inverting roles: turning a war of choice and rejectionism into an unprovoked โcatastropheโ inflicted by the intended victims. It sustain grievance and does not nothing to advance peace.