One major tell that Palestinian displacement is not the main grievance of the Nakba is that Nakba Day happens to be May 15.
Palestinians could have chosen any other day in 1948 that signifies Arab expulsion and dispossession: April 8 (the Battle of Deir Yassin), April 22 (fall of Haifa), May 13 (fall of Jaffa), July 13 (fall of Lydda), etc.
Instead, Nakba Day marks the day Arab armies invaded the newly declared State of Israel, launching a regional war they decisively lost. May 15 is not the date of an expulsion, dispossession, or “ethnic cleansing.” It is the date Israel survived and became sovereign, by its conjuring causing a catastrophic psychic shock that reverberates to this day.
Oh hell no. Let's get one thing straight right now.
People aren't "mad" that the opinion article @nytimes by @NickKristof "contained many explosive claims."
They're mad because such incendiary allegations were made - in an opinion article, no less - based on obviously speculative & untrustworthy sources.
They're mad because some of the most outlandish allegations from the article involve conduct by canines that is clearly anatomically impossible.
They're mad because of reports that NYT timed publication of this opinion article to divert attention from substantiated allegations of actual sexual abuse by Hamas terrorists on 10/7 that the paper could have elected to cover in depth instead.
They're mad because one of the sources for these allegations has ALREADY recanted in a subsequent "news" interview.
In light of all these points above, people are mad because @NYTimesPR continues to double down defending this garbage "deeply reported opinion column" rather than examining whether failure to comply with their OWN ethical journalism standards & practices led to publication of a deeply misleading opinion article with several serious allegations that have no factual merit.
Now, it is true that I only completed all requirements for a master of journalism degree literally just yesterday. (‼️)
Still, maybe I missed the block of instruction teaching us that it's a proper technique to rely primarily on anonymous sources & orgs with a demonstrated track record of misleading the public just to demonize @Israel as factual evidence of "many explosive claims" presented in an OPINION article that is published as though it is a polished piece of investigative journalism.
And these are not merely benign allegations that will just fade into oblivion. I've already seen a video of Palestinian "liberation" terror supporters on London streets telling Jews to "get your dog to rape me, why don't ya" while claiming Jews "celebrate rape" (link in 1st reply) ... all because of this "Kristof column."
I, for one, am absolutely disgusted at how routine it's become, especially in the wake of the 10/7 atrocities, for the world to enjoy the spectacle of expecting Jews to turn out their pockets just to prove their innocence.
Enough. It's time for the fucking New York Times to turn out THEIR pockets for a change.
This is a devious rhetorical trick. Labeling someone a “Nakba survivor” 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 “survivor” 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 “survivors,” 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 Israel’s Declaration of Independence, which explicitly invited Arab inhabitants to “participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship.” And it conveniently overlooks the ~150,000 Arabs who stayed put, accepted Israeli citizenship, and whose descendants now form over 20% of Israel’s population.
This is international grievance politics pushed by the Mayor of New York City, who genuinely believes that Palestinians should be able to “return to their homes” – 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 “catastrophe” inflicted by the intended victims. It sustain grievance and does not nothing to advance peace.
Dear Goyim,
You talk so much about us.
You obsess so much over us.
You build entire careers around us.
You create and consume endless content about us.
How come y'all actually know so little about us?
Notice how the prosperity of Muslim-majority nations is inversely proportional to how often they joined wars against the Jewish state. It's no coincidence that the ten most prosperous Muslim countries never once fought Israel.
You may draw your own conclusions about the presence of a Higher Power who does not bless nations that mistreat His people.
Just know this, Goyim. Leave the Jewish people in peace, and watch your nations prosper. It couldn't be any simpler.
I hope this message reaches y'all in time.
I am ashamed by this.
The Palestinian cause should be ashamed.
Its leaders have been offered a state, peace, and security multiple times over the last 70+ years. They rejected every time.
In West Bank: leaders became corrupt.
In Gaza: leaders became terrorists.
Innocent Palestinians lost in both scenarios.
So this is where we are today.
Asking the world to build a new city for Palestinians. Because their leaders let them down.
Everyone should fully support this plan.
It is the last chance for millions of innocent Palestinians to have a decent life.
@jaredkushner 👏
Have you ever been tortured? I have.
There is a point when pain fades away, and you reach absolute clarity.
That's where Iranians are.
This is the last battle.
Had the Biden administration not funneled $1 billion to Hamas via @UNRWA 16 days before October 7th, the $20 billion clean-up would've been entirely unnecessary.
History is on repeat. @khamenei_ir launders his people’s money to bankroll impotent Houthi missiles and ends up funding his own revolt.
Reminds me of another Persian despot, who financed the very gallows that ended up ending him.
Everyone eager to recognize Palestine knows they are recognizing something that does not exist. And will not exist. But they also know that a Jewish State does exist. And they intend to change that. Because the world position on Jews remains unchanged...Jews must not exist.
“Hamas’s fundamental plan for survival is Gaza’s humanitarian suffering,” @HavivRettigGur writes. The worse the conditions, the more loudly the world condemns Israel. Suffering is the strategy, and it’s working. https://t.co/0r5ruDfK0S
What?? It appears French Foreign Minister claims I praised the “work” France is doing for Gaza. Hardly! I’ve said emphatically they have boogered up the process by foolishly calling for “2 State” and all they have done in empower Hamas! https://t.co/i430WClxlT