Palestinian Refugees on their way to Lebanon, Oct. 1948.
The Arabic term Nakba, meaning "catastrophe," refers to the dispossession and ethnic cleansing experienced by the Palestinian people during and after the 1948 war with Zionist forces in British-mandated Palestine. This event was pivotal, leading to the establishment of the "Jewish state," where the Jews quickly became 85% of the citizens when they were under 10% in 1947. For Palestinians, the indigenous population, the Nakba resulted in the dispossession and replacement of three out of every four people, a population that now numbers over 14 million.
Palestinian Replacement In A Single Picture:al-Tira's school before and after Nakba. The same place, but different people
The situation leading up to 1948 was complex. Pre-WWII British-mandated Palestine was pressured to absorb a disproportionate number of European Jewish refugees, a period when the US and Canada largely closed their doors. Despite Jews making up less than 10% of the citizens and owning under 6% of the land, Zionist leaders demanded independence in 1948. This untenable situation led the UN to intervene in late 1947, imposing a Partition Plan.
Palestinians overwhelmingly perceived the partitioning of their country as unjust and unfair and therefore rejected it, leading to the outbreak of the "War of Nakba," which lasted 11 months.
From the Palestinian perspective, accepting the partition of their country when they were the vast majority of citizens and landowners was unacceptable.
Why Do Jews Deny the Nakba?
Remind Us Please:Who shall push whom into the sea. This was the scene at Jaffa harbor, May 1948.
To this day, the vast majority of Jews fiercely deny this Palestinian replacement, even though the Nakba has continued since 1948 and destroyed Palestinian villages that remain visible across the landscape. This denial provides emotional comfort, as many Jews, including non-Zionists, cannot reconcile the image of Holocaust survivors committing such acts so soon after the Shoah.
If you have two minutes, we urge you to watch this brave American Jewish girl describing Israeli Jews' cognitive dissonance like no other. Trust us, it will be worth your time, but hang on to your seat first and watch her to the last second:
Albert Einstein's letter dated April 10th, 1948, predicted that the Zionist Jews who committed the massacre at Deir Yassin would bring a Nakba upon the Jews
For a psychoanalytic analysis of this phenomenon, Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom is highly relevant. Written in the early 1940s to explain how Germans surrendered their freedom to fascists. Here is an interview with Mr. Fromm conducted by Mike Wallace in 1958, and here is a 26-minute summary of his book "Escape From Freedom". Fromm's arguments on mass psychological retreat from reality are arguably applicable to much of the contemporary Jewish community, suggesting a strange repetition of history.
The Zionist Version Of Lebensraum: A Map Of The Great Israel
Much to our surprise, Albert Einstein used the word catastrophe (a.k.a Nakba in Arabic) way before it was coined by Arabs a day after the Deir Yassin massacre on April 10th, 1948. That said, Albert, used the word catastrophe not in the Palestinian context, but rather in the Jewish context. YES, Herr Einstein predicted that the Zionists would bring a Nakba upon Jews! In other words, Einstein knew that Zionists fomented antisemitism by design where it never existed! Please allow Einstein's framing of the conflict to sink in for a minute and then reflect: when antisemitism was antisemitism ever bad for Zionism?
Ironically, the Jews used to use the word "catastrophe" so often, as we saw earlier with Arendt and Einstein, before Nakba, and they switched to using Shoah when Palestinians claimed it after 1948. We have addressed how certain words changed their masters in another section.
How do Palestinians Feel About Their Right of Return?
It should be noted that to this date, the Palestinian people have been demanding to exercise their right to return (which was endorsed by the UN) to their looted homes, farms, businesses, and lands. Sadly, this basic human right has been rejected even by the most "liberal" of world Jewry.
We URGE you to watch Professor Ilan Pappe's (an Israeli historian) summarizing Nakba in 90 seconds:
...and watch President Truman explaining the Nakba in plain English and the Americans' role in making it possible in 50 seconds. Pay attention to how Mr. Turman was talking as if he were the Colonial Secretary, as if anything had changed to this date:
...or watch this great View by Mondoweiss explaining Nakba in under 90 seconds:
...and watch this brave American boy for two minutes only explaining why Nakba was necessary for Zionism to succeed and why Israel has to maintain a Jewish majority at all costs and at all times:
Here is an important clip of an Israeli describing the Nakba in vivid language. It was extracted from a much larger video recorded by Zochrot. Note how he discussed the ethnic cleansing and the dispossession of the indigenous people in the village of Huj. Pay attention to how described as peaceful. Ironically, before Nakba, we called them traitors because they were so friendly with the Zionist Haganah. Just in case you don't know where Huj is located, it is just a few kilometers from the northeastern tip of the Gaza Strip:
If you made it down here and still have the energy to learn more about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, we highly recommend visiting our short introductory section, which includes a brief list of articles on the conflict.
Palestinians Ask: Did Zionist Jews Give a Good Name For Refugees?
Finally, after reviewing all this evidence, we Palestinians have every right to ask: since many in the "civilized West" loves conflating Judaism with Zionism, do you honestly believe [Zionist] Jews gave a good name for refugees? God forbid, if another Jewish refugee crisis occurs in the future, would the "civilized West" refuse to receive Jewish refugees as they did in the 1930s and 40s? God forbid, if such a thing happens again, then who can blame any nation for refusing to take in such refugees? Who would welcome refugees who openly plot to replace them? Thus, was it a mistake to give them refuge? Those are legitimate questions that every Jew and Westerner should contemplate deeply. All we Palestinians ask is just a little empathy, or is that too much to ask?
I am very sympathetic towards the young American boy and agree with him about the occupation. At the same time language is important, and I’m afraid references to ‘far right nationalist organisations’ as a ‘problem’ cause me to step back. If ethnic nationalism is a ‘problem’ then what our friend supports for Palestinians he will very likely oppose when applied to whites currently undergoing an expulsion from their own homelands in the United States and Europe organised by the same unyielding forces. He is I suspect a social justice warrior and probably an internationalist - eager to render the world a borderless playground for the class of plutocrats now clutching at the world’s throat and all in the interests of an illusory ‘equality’ and ‘justice’ he simply doesn’t understand because he hasn't grasped all the connections. Opposition of this nature equates to cultural Marxism in practice. He makes good points it has to be said. Unfortunately I just don’t see how supporting one nation’s right to live in their own lands among their own people but failing to defend the same principle elsewhere - nations are bloodlines; that is what the word ‘nation’ means, furthermore nations do not survive very well without an exclusive territory of their own - leads to any other conclusion. And if this much is true then he likely approves of organisations like Antifa, BLM and all the other factions dedicated to disrupting and eventually destroying a civilisation he himself appears to have done rather well out of. I hope I'm wrong, and I must emphasise again that I applaud what he has to say. I just think he may need to rethink his terms of reference and his ideological position. We were - of course - all young once.
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Palestinian Replacement In A Single Picture: al-Tira's school before and after Nakba. The same place, but different people 
Remind Us Please: Who shall push whom into the sea. This was the scene at Jaffa harbor, May 1948.
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