Holocaust denial has been and still is a very worrying part of predominantly Western antisemitic far-right thinking. Perhaps as a sign of times, a new worrying phenomenon has emerged: Nakba denial. Last week it was reported that Germany’s leading Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the opposition Christian Democratic Party (CDU) have ordered high schools in Berlin’s borough of Neukölln to distribute brochures titled “Myths#Israel1948”. The brochure is created by Jewish association Masiyot. The brochure lists and debunks five “myths” regarding the creation of the state of Israel and Palestinian Nakba, or “Catastrophe”, when – among other things – Israel’s pre-state militia, the Haganah, destroyed over 530 Palestinian villages and forced over 700,000 Palestinians to leave their homes during the 1948 Palestine war. According to the brochure, the Haganah was merely a “defensive” Jewish resistance movement. One essay criticizes the United Nations because of its “extremely one-sided” view of Nakba and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The attempts to distort events regarding Nakba are particularly chilling now because it seems increasingly likely that Israel is trying to get rid of Palestinians way or the other – I wrote about this in my post “What is the endgame of Israel and its allies?”
Read the full story about Nakba as a “myth” on Middle East Eye:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/berlin-schools-handout-leaflet-myth-israel-1948
More information about Nakba:
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