@nytimes Can’t wait for the follow up article. What kind of bs research will NYT come up next? Congrats to Israel on 2nd place!
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Israel’s efforts to influence the vote for the Eurovision Song Contest were broader and started years earlier than previously known, a New York Times investigation found. Here is the inside story of the controversy that almost broke Eurovision. nyti.ms/42ZR43z
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Tonight, Israeli @Eurovision representative @NoamBettan proudly took the stage at the 2026 Eurovision Finals and helped Israel earn 2nd place despite months of hostility, politicization, and efforts to exclude Israel and Jewish artists from the international stage.
Millions of viewers still chose to connect with Israeli music, culture, and humanity over hate and division.
Jewish and Israeli identity should never disqualify artists from participating in international culture and tonight proved that attempts to isolate Jews and Israelis will not succeed.
Mazel tov, Noam! ⭐️
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Israël à l’#Eurovision :
En 2023, Noa Kirel a terminé 3ème.
En 2024, Eden Golan a terminé 5ème.
En 2025, Yuval Raphael a terminé 2ème.
En 2026, Noam Bettan a terminé 2ème.
Mais continuez de nous expliquer qu’Israël serait isolé et rejeté dans le monde entier.
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The reason Israel keeps doing well at Eurovision is not that the Israeli government is good at marketing. The Israeli government is, on most days, one of the worst-marketed states on earth. The reason Israel keeps doing well at Eurovision is that millions of people across Europe are watching the same news that other Europeans watch, reading the same op-eds, watching the same celebrities pose in keffiyehs, and have decided, quietly, that they disagree.
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@RepRashida Get your facts straight
HonestReporting@HonestReporting
"The Nakba" means “catastrophe” in Arabic, but it didn't originally refer to the narrative of Palestinian displacement as it is commonly understood today. It referred to the Arab world’s failed attempt to destroy the newly re-established Jewish state.🧵
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The Nakba never ended. The Israeli apartheid regime is still committing genocide in Gaza and violently erasing entire communities across Palestine and Lebanon. I'm leading a resolution to recognize the 78th anniversary of Nakba and reaffirm Palestinian refugees' right of return.
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Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.
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Narrative violation warning:
Elders in my Arab village in Israel told me the richest Palestinians sold their land and left first. 80 years later, their grandkids now claim to be displaced victims.
I am so allergic to victim mindset. It boils my blood. ~15 million displaced Hindus and Muslims in India-Pakistan around the SAME year. No one is trying to be a victim there. It's time to move on.
"You only get to be a victim once. After that, you’re a volunteer."
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.
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This real-time 1948 article from The Economist completely destroys the modern “Nakba” narrative that was invented decades later as political propaganda.
Straight from British eyewitnesses in Haifa, October 2, 1948:
“Jewish authorities urged all Arabs to remain in Haifa and guaranteed them protection and security ... However, of the 62,000 Arabs who formerly lived in Haifa, not more than 5,000 or 6,000 remained.
The most potent factor was the announcements made over the air by the Arab Higher Executive, urging the Arabs to quit ... those who remained and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades.”
They didn’t flee because of “Zionist ethnic cleansing.”
They fled because Arab leaders ordered them to get out of the way so their armies could “drive the Jews into the sea.”
Then they lost the war they started — and spent the next 77 years rewriting history to blame the Jews.
The “Nakba” you were taught? Pure revisionist fiction.
Captain Allen@CptAllenHistory
The word “Nakba” (catastrophe) wasn’t invented by Palestinians to describe Jewish “ethnic cleansing.” It was coined in 1948 by a Syrian Arab historian, Constantin Zureiq, in his book The Meaning of the Disaster. He used it to describe the humiliating failure of the Arab world — their leaders’ arrogance, their lies to their own people, their military incompetence, and their refusal to accept a Jewish state. Zureiq wrote that the Arabs had “imaginary victories” and put their public “to sleep” with boasts — until the real disaster hit: they couldn’t wipe out the Jews. The original Nakba wasn’t about refugees. That a rebrand from several decades later. It was about the Arab leaders’ catastrophic decision to launch a war of extermination ... and lose. They’ve spent 77 years rebranding their own failure as Jewish guilt. That’s the only real "Nakba" they can’t forgive.
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Mayor Mamdani: the refugees you post about exist because 22 Arab states launched a war to destroy Israel on May 15, 1948—rejecting the UN plan that also called for a Palestinian state. In its aftermath, 800,000 Jews were expelled from Arab lands. Your post mentions none of this.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.
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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.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.
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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.
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**Arab states have restricted Palestinian entry and integration for pragmatic reasons of self-preservation.**
Historical pattern: PLO militancy triggered Black September in Jordan (1970, thousands killed/expelled), fueled Lebanon's civil war, and led Kuwait to expel ~350-400k Palestinians in 1991 after PLO backed Saddam's invasion. Libya, Iraq, and others followed with expulsions tied to politics (Oslo, post-2003 backlash).
Broader drivers: Leaders fear importing instability/terrorism, demographic upheaval, and economic strain. Publicly they champion the "cause" for leverage against Israel and to preserve the refugee narrative/right of return—preferring camps over citizenship. Jordan integrated many early refugees with passports; most others didn't. Sovereignty and stability trump pan-Arab rhetoric.
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On November 29, 1947, the UN voted to partition British Mandatory Palestine into two states: one Jewish, one Arab.
The Jews accepted. The Arab states and Arab leadership rejected it.
On May 15, 1948, five Arab armies invaded the new State of Israel... and lost.
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"The Nakba" means “catastrophe” in Arabic, but it didn't originally refer to the narrative of Palestinian displacement as it is commonly understood today.
It referred to the Arab world’s failed attempt to destroy the newly re-established Jewish state.🧵
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@NYCMayor Stop spreading evil lies, Zohran.
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"The Nakba" means “catastrophe” in Arabic, but it didn't originally refer to the narrative of Palestinian displacement as it is commonly understood today. It referred to the Arab world’s failed attempt to destroy the newly re-established Jewish state.🧵
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@NYCMayor As we prepare for Shabbat, the NYC mayor once again incites the antizionist hate movement.
This obsessive hatred is at the core of everything he does. He “condemns” swastikas while backing modern day nazis.
We will not be silent.
ENOUGH
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@NYCMayor Mayor Mamdani is full of shite, as usual.
The so-called "Nakba" had a survival rate of 99%. Very reminiscent of the "Gaza genocide" hoax.
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Eitan Fischberger@EFischberger
"Nakba survivor" means nothing. How typically disingenuous of Comrade Mamdani
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