Nakba
See also: nakba
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic نَكْبَة (nakba, “disaster, catastrophe”), from نَكَبَ (nakaba, “to make miserable”).
Proper noun
Nakba
- The foundation of the State of Israel and subsequent expulsion or flight of the majority of the Palestinian Arabs (some 700,000) among its residents, perceived as a catastrophe by many Palestinians and others.
- 2010 May 13, Saeb Erekat, “The Nakba continues”, in Ma'an News[1]:
- The Palestinian Nakba continues to this day, as Israeli practices and policies of evictions, home demolitions, deportations, settlement activities, wall-building as well as closure and siege in both the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip generate new waves of displaced persons.
- 2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents[2]:
- Brown University's Friday Night Jews (FNJ) [...] began as an informal Shabbat dinner gathering in 2016, as a space for Jewish students who were feeling fed up with Hillel’s limitations regarding Israel/Palestine discourse, after the Brown/RISD Hillel rescinded sponsorship of a film screening by the Israeli nonprofit Zochrot, an organization that educates Jewish Israelis about the Nakba.
Usage notes
- For political reasons, use of this term is highly controversial; in particular, many Israelis and others reject the notion that the foundation of the State of Israel itself was a catastrophe for resident Palestinians.
- This term is frequently found with the Arabic definite article اَل (al-, “the”) instead of the English definite article the: Al-Nakba.
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