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The Palestinian Lies We Were Forced to Respect

JL;DR SUMMARY Naya Lekht critically examines the impact of the Nakba narrative in framing anti-Zionist sentiment, arguing it functions as a libel against Jews. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish EducationZionismMiddle East ConflictAnti ZionismNakbaPalestinian NarrativeUn PoliciesHistorical Libels

Places mentioned

Palestinian Territories
"Consider an analogy: If someone were to accuse Jews today of deicide, the ancient charge that Jews killed Christ, we would not treat that claim as a legitimate Christian narrative worth acknowledging."
Israel
"The origins of the Nakba as a political observance are instructive here, not because a fixed date of invention delegitimizes a grievance for all peoples eventually consecrate key events with specific dates, but because the invented date reveals the invented purpose."
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
"Individuals like Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, Zvi Kogan, Melvin Cravitz, Adrian Daulby, and Paul Kessler, as well as the 15 Jews gunned down last December on Australias Bondi Beach, are targeted by an ideology that reduces them to symbols, symbols of colonialism, white supremacy, racism, and apartheid."
United States
"The Anti-Defamation League and American Jewish Committee documented dramatic spikes in antisemitic incidents across Europe, North America, and beyond."
Syria
"As Khaled al-Azm, who served as Prime Minister of Syria in 1948 and 1949, later wrote with candor: Since 1948 we have been demanding the return of the refugees to their homes."
London, England, United Kingdom
"Just two years after the creation of this UN committee, an annual observance of November 29th, the anniversary of the UN vote to partition British Mandate Palestine, became the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestine People at the UN, serving as a precursor for Nakba Day."

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