Counter-demonstrators holding copies of "Nakba Bullshit," Tel Aviv University, May 14, 2012. (Photo: JC/ActiveStills)
Hundreds of right-wing Israelis poured onto Tel Aviv University's campus yesterday to protest a student-run Nakba commemoration. Extremist members of Knesset joined their ranks, providing them with official encouragement.
Incited to fevered levels of resentment by the student commemoration of Nakba-- the 1947-49 expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians by Zionist militias-- minister of Knesset Areyah Eldad declared his intent to celebrate the catastrophe. "I am not against remembering the events of Nakba Day, as Arabs call it. On the contrary, I think the State of Israel needs to turn the day into a holiday. It is time to be happy that we defeated our enemies," said Eldad.
Minister of Knesset Michael Ben-Ari, who was recently banned from entering the U.S. for his connection to the terrorist Kach group, also addressed attendees with fury, in an anti-Palestinian tirade. Only weeks ago both Ben-Ari and Eldad were photographed basking in triumph on a sofa outside of the home of a Palestinian family in Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem, after they were evicted by Israeli police acting at the behest of settlers.
Also last week, the Tel Aviv University student union also spoke against the Nakba event in a statement:
The Student Union has no connection to the Nakba day events set to take place on campus next week, and opposes the events in their current form. The Student Union requested from University administration to rethink the event in its current form, inasmuch as it could be very harmful toward the feelings of many students on campus. We are currently waiting for an answer from the University, and will determine our next steps depending on the response from the university.
And over the weekend the Israeli minister of education, Gideon Sa'ar, who previously ordered Nakba removed from public school curriculums, denounced the event. Sa'ar's press advisor said to Haaretz, "The education minister is of the opinion that the decision is wrong and infuriating."
Minister of Knesset Michael Ben-Ari addressing anti-Nakba protestors, Tel Aviv University, May 14, 2012. (Photo: JC/ActiveStills)
The turnout at today's memorial was one of the largest for the Palestinian catastrophe on an Israeli campus, yet the counter-demonstration exceeded the size of the original event. Self-identified Kahanists and other right-wing supporters sealed off the commemoration with a blue and white banner. Behind the Israeli flag motif, one man burned a paper version of the Palestinian flag and some held signs calling Nakba a "lie." Others held entire pamphlets calling Nakba a lie, toting copies of rightist group Im Tirzu's Nakba Harta, or "Nakba Bullshit." The booklet, published last year, is a "land without a people, people without a land" polemical account of early Zionism. At the time of release,+972 Magazine's Yossi Gurvitz wrote:
Im Tirzu tries to convince us that there were no Palestinians prior to the Zionist arrival, and that they showed up only following Jewish immigration in the early 20th century, tempted by the so-called prosperity brought by the Zionists. That is, the 700,000 Palestinians expelled by Israel weren’t refugees at all, since they didn’t live in Palestine all that long, or something of the sort.
Protesters of the commemoration also held signs denying Nakba's existence. "When I arrived to this land there was no Palestinian people," said one poster, quoting former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Mier. Another read: "Israeli Arabs say no to the lie of the Nakba".
And in the leadup to Nakba on a counter-protest Facebook page one demonstrator said those honoring the Palestinian catastrophe should "go study in Jordan or Gaza."
Settlers in Tel Aviv, 1906.
Early photos of Tel Aviv's pioneers on the sand dunes are a central feature of Zionist mythology. However, the site of Tel Aviv University tells another story as it was built over the ruins of a Palestinian village that was destroyed during Nakba, Sheikh Muwannis. The current faculty lounge is located in the home of the village's mukhtar [head of the village] and it is the last original building still standing. About a decade ago a few faculty members and the Israeli organization Zochrot urged the university to place a plaque on the wall of the lounge, recognizing the history of Sheikh Muwannis. To date the administration has rebuffed their request.
For years, the Israeli right has been throwing Sheikh Muwannis (or “Sheikh Munes”, as they pronounce it) in the face of left-wing protesters against the settlements in the OPT – the idea being that there is no difference between ’48 dispossession and ’67 dispossession, and that even that bastion of Israeli liberalism, Tel Aviv University, sits on formerly-Arab land. What is more, they say, Sheikh Muwannis was actually inhabited (as opposed to agricultural or grazing land), contrary to most of the land on which the post-67 settlements are built.
They are absolutely right of course, but here you have a group of Israelis (Palestinians and Jews) who agree that dispossession is dispossession, whether it occurred in 1948, 1967 or 2012 – and they’re still not happy. There really is no pleasing some people.
These right-wingers don’t want to be reminded of the pain and loss they (or their ancestors) caused others, or the suggestion that they did so illicitly. Of course not. The triumph of the victors was always thus. Especially, they do not want to contemplate paying compensation for those losses or resettling the exiles. (Perish the thought of anything worse! They will not gladly hear talk of BDS.)
Robert Burns spoke of the poor in Scotland when he wrote:
But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men,
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!
Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But Och! I backward cast my e’e,
On prospects drear!
An’ forward, tho’ I canna see,
I guess an’ fear!
Any society that doesn’t treat this as it would Holocaust denial is an immoral society. These people are no different than neo-Nazis; not morally, not actually.
Any society that doesn’t treat this as it would Holocaust denial is an immoral society. These people are no different than neo-Nazis; not morally, not actually.
The Jerusalem Post report on the so-called “counter-demonstration”, which was designed to disrupt the memorial ceremony, made it even more obvious than Allison’s article that these thugs were proud of what happened and identified with the perpetrators:
link to jpost.com
“‘We brought a Nakba upon you’”
These people are so disgusting. Brownshirts. And the university is no better. They would not permit the Palestinians use amplifiers, but let the Israelis out to terrorize them to use amplifiers. Nothing is too petty for these Israeli thugs.
These people are so disgusting. Brownshirts. And the university is no better.
Yes. Someone should alert Michael Orin and the Wall Street Journal to that fact. It’s a waste of time shreying about sinister plots to delegitimize Israel, when the University and its student union, the Jerusalem Post, and Members of the Knesset from the ruling coalition are behaving like this in public and bragging about their country’s role in perpetrating the Nakba.
Dead right, Hostage
The problem with Zionism in this case is the rigidity of the ideology. There is only one version of history that is acceptable to the ideologues and you end up with this sort of BS where university students deny that the Nakba ever happened. I thought university was about broadening the mind. But not in Israel.
It reminds me of the Zionist response to Zochrot. They can’t engage with Zochrot because there is nothing to talk about with them since the Nakba didn’t happen and there were no Palestinians around in 1948.
The problem with Zionism in this case is the rigidity of the ideology. There is only one version of history that is acceptable to the ideologues
I think the JPost article presents Zionists like Ambassador Oren with a paradox. You can’t claim the Nakba never happened, while at one and the same time other members of Israeli mainstream society brag about it “as if” it is some sort of national achievement. Ethnic cleansing or the deliberate massacre of civilians constitute acts which give rise to international criminal responsibility regardless of the motive involved.
Ira Glunts has just provided a link to yet another article which illustrates this paradox. The author doesn’t deny that the Nakba occurred, he 1) blames the victims and claims they had it coming; and 2) tries to deflect attention from Israel’s wrongful acts committed against Palestinians by drawing attention to wrongful acts committed by third parties against other Jews (as if two wrongs could make a right).
Ha’aretz reports that school officials prohibited a Nakba commemoration at the University of Haifa yesterday. The school cancelled the event just three hours prior the time it was scheduled to begin. This was after the students had obtained all the necessary permits.
For those with a strong stomach, here is post by Prof. Plaut which states that he teaches at the University of Haifa. The city of Haifa and the university have significant Palestinian populations.
Warning this is very racist stuff. And I only read about one third of it.
link to israelnationalnews.com
thanks ira. we really should post this stuff
Here, the good professor says Rachel Corrie is the Horst Wessel of the anti-jewish movement: link to israelnationalnews.com
Here he says You Can’t Give Jerusalem To The Savages: link to bit.ly
Here he says You Can’t Give Jerusalem To The Savages
LOL! That’s what the Principal Allied and Associated Powers always said about the possibility of transferring control of Jerusalem to the Jews.
William Ormsby Gore headed-up the Political Intelligence Department of the British Foreign Office that authored the documents and maps outlining British desiderata for the post-WWI settlement; served as British representative and Chairman of the League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission; and as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (1922-29) and Secretary of State for the Colonies (1936-38).
The Palestine Mandate contained a clause, Article 28, that required the establishment of a perpetual system of safeguards for the Holy Places and Jerusalem under international guarantee in the event that a decision was taken to terminate the mandate. Colonial Secretary Ormsby Gore testified to the Permanent Mandates Commission about the purpose of that provision:
link to unispal.un.org
Wisdom is justified by all her children. The General Assembly attempted to implement Article 28 through the provisions of resolution 181(II) regarding the establishment of a Corpus Separatum.
“Here he says You Can’t Give Jerusalem To The Savages: link to bit.ly”
Talking like a true white colonialist.
Israelis are as arrogant and obnoxious as ever but underneath the surface there are signs of progress.
I got this email from Judaica Webstore today. Why would JW feel the need to send such a mail ?
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Check out the video !
BTW the use of the “fada” from Intifada is pathetic.
Intifada is from the Arabic verb Intafada which means “to throw off ” as the Palestinians will do to the occupation/Israel
a shopafada is a throwing off of shops
“Israeli” products?!?
Who will come to our rescue, eGuard?
“‘BTW the use of the ‘fada’ from Intifada is pathetic.
Intifada is from the Arabic verb Intafada which means ‘to throw off ‘ as the Palestinians will do to the occupation/Israel ”
Not just pathetic, but demonstrating the core bigotry at the heart of zionism and zionists.
side note:
Q: But we will fight back without violence or terror – but through active support of our beloved nation and people.
R: My writing coach would seriously kick me in the butt if I’d fathered the above…
About the Tirzu bullshit:
1.) It doesn’t matter where people came from before 1948, if they were or became citizens of Palestine.
2.) 2/3 of the Jews in 1948 were not citizens of Palestine and therefore had no political rights.
3.) There was no significant immigration of Nonjews into Palestine during the Mandate, only internal migration.
4.) Nakba deniers are as sick as Holocaust deniers.
“…Israeli organization Zochrot urged the university to place a plaque on the wall of the lounge, recognizing the history of Sheikh Muwannis. To date the administration has rebuffed their request.”
Elsewhere, “Hier wohnte…”
Of course. Under the Zionist narrative, Jews are always victims, never perpetrators…
“When I arrived to this land there was no Palestinian people,” said one poster, quoting former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.”
Didn’t she always live in Israel ? Weren’t the Netanyahus there for 3000 years ?
Isn’t all that stuff about Yiddish and Poland bullshit dreamt up by Arabs ?
She meant that when she came to Israel the Arabs didn’t consider themselves a distinct Palestinian people. That they considered themselves Arabs, or southern Syrians, or what have you, but not a Palestinian people. That they are now a people is not arguable.
She meant that when she came to Israel the Arabs didn’t consider themselves a distinct Palestinian people.
Fred we know what she meant. It was a lie when she said it, and it was intended as an insult.
That’s a crock, Fredo. The fact is that there was a distinct Palestinian culture, within the larger Arab culture. That they did not fully adopt the European notion of nationality, given their linguistic and ethnic ties to those who were, like them, part of the Ottoman Empire, is neither surprising nor relevant. (Frankly, it stinks of bigotry.)
Those people were fully entitled to their land and to self-determination on that land, when a horde of European colonists — exemplified by Golda Mabovich (nom de guerre: Meir) — invaded and stole it from them.
So, she watched this episode of The West Wing?
POTUS can’t hang up his accurate Holy Land Map drawn in early 18th Century because Israel is not on it: link to youtu.be via @youtube
fredblogs:
“This I can say for sure: There were human beings on that land, and they had been there all their lives, and their families for many generations before them down through the centuries. And many of them were actually descended from ancient Jews who later converted to Christianity and Islam, while our ancestors, Golda’s and mine- the Ashkenazi Jews, were converting to Judaism in the Khazar Kingdom on the shores of the Caspian Sea.” –Rich Seigel.
He also said : Interestingly, during the years of the Yishuv, the pre-Israeli-statehood Zionist community in Palestine, Jewish-Zionist settlers called themselves “Palestinians”. In this way, the Zionists ironically affirmed the thing that many of them wish now to deny: Palestinian identity. In 1948, amid the massacres and military forced mass expulsions of the “nakba” (Arabic for catastrophe, the name commonly given to the events of 1948), when the state of “Israel” was declared, all of the Jews who had been calling themselves Palestinians became “Israelis”, and when the dust cleared, the Arabs who remained within the green line became “Arab Israelis”, like it or not. (It was not known until the state of “Israel” was declared, what it was to be named. “Zion” was considered as a possibility, but rejected, as the result would have necessitated referring to “Arab Israelis”, the Arab citizens of Israel, as “Arab Zionists”.)
seafoid, I guess Golda Meir never looked at this map showing Palestinian villages, towns, and mixed ones, as well as the Zionist colonies present in 1920 Mandate Land: link to palestine-studies.org
PS: Has there been a woman born uglier inside and out than Golda Meir? Well, OK, maybe that female serial killer, whats her name. The one the S African actress played in the movie.
I wouldn’t comment on her looks, because there’s nothing she can do about them. But she made herself into a monster. Even if she looked like Bar Raefieli, she would still be a monster.
@ Citizen,
Going after a person’s looks instead of his or her deeds, isn’t fair at all, imho.
One big difference between our despicable colonial treatment of American Indians and Israel’s current and ongoing despicable colonial treatment of the Palestinians is that we never denied what we did. Some celebrated it, some said it was OK, some that it was necessary, some neo-liberally lamented it as a byproduct of a greater good, but never that it didn’t happen.
That collective acknowledgement enabled us as a society to identify and address (to whatever extent we’ve been successful in doing so) the unchecked immorality that enabled us to do it. Despite all the foreknowledge and historical lessons available to it showing the healing and coexistence benefits, Israel stridently and forcefully resists that collective acknowledgement.
Israeli introspection could be the beginnings of a fundamental de-”delegitimization” tool, but Israel is hell-bent on fighting its fundamental morality/justice crisis with a losing and increasingly debased (as in responding in tangential terms, e.g. pinkwashing) PR effort. Wish they’d get on with it.
I dunno Ritzl. Does it make a difference? Native Americans only got citizenship in the 20s.
Ask the Hopi or the people over at Pine Ridge what’s the difference. Otherwise I wouldn’t try to distinguish.
Settler colonialism is evil everywhere.
Israelis will say in their defence they don’t have football teams called the Tel Aviv Brownskins.
I’m not too sure about that. There are many, many Americans who simply refuse to believe that the genocide of the Native Americans was what it, in fact, was — a planned and executed genocide. Nor do I think that there has been a collective acknowlegement of the crimes for what they were.
A small — but telling — example is the fact that 2 of the most prominent remnants of the Native People in the US (aside from place names which are now virtually or comparatively devoid of Native People) are 1) weapon systems and 2) the disgusting sports-logos. These are the result of the unconscious (and in many places deliberate) linkage of Native Americans and war or fighting. It’s insanely bigoted, because it reduces these great cultures to a single attribute — their fight in 18th and 19th centuries against the colonial invaders, and it permits Americans the fantasy that what occurred was simply a fight between two people, in which the stronger side (in the pre-Hitler days, of course, this would have been expressed as the “superior, white race”) prevailed, rather than the pre-medidated genocide of a continent full of people. (Things like “scalping” stories, in fact, have the purpose of making the victims of atrocities into the perpetrators of them.)
The discussion of the North American genocide is filled with euphemisms like “Manifest Destiny,” “Westward Expansion,” “pioneer” and so forth (I’ve even read about the “peopling of the West,” as if the Native Americans weren’t people) demonstrating that Americans haven’t come to any real understanding of what happened. Rather than addressing the unchecked immorality that caused it, we simply lie about what happened, pretend it was just a war, and do the Tomahawk Chop on opening day in Atlanta, or root for an NFL team with an ethnic slur for a name, in Washington, DC, as Apache helicopters do a flyby.
usa.
yeah.
I guess that my take and/or point is that terms/concepts like “Manifest Destiny” and “peopling of the West” have come to be regarded, broadly and correctly, as negatives, by the vast majority of people in the US.
God, we could get into a lengthy conversation about whether that’s reversible or not (it certainly is), why and how, but at the moment, there is a general awareness of wrong about those past beliefs. Not so in Israel.
I agree about the residual slurs, like “Redskins,” but the naming conventions on military weapons is a long-held paean to a couple of the virtues of Native Americans. Fierceness and tenacity. That doesn’t preclude any of the other virtues. But then, taking someone’s identity without asking (“Israeli” couscous=Maftoul) is wrong.
Long conversation…
We Americans have only very slowly come to accept that what we did to the American Indians amounted to genocide, and some of us won’t admit it yet.
I remember on one of my first visits to Turkey, in the 1980′s, I complained to a Turkish friend about what his people had done to the Armenians, and he told me it was only what Americans had done to the Indians. On the spot, I couldn’t admit he was right. I could only admit it the next day, after I had thought about it.
We Americans have only very slowly come to accept that what we did to the American Indians amounted to genocide, and some of us won’t admit it yet.
I’m still dumbfounded by the amount of time that our clueless Congress spent on non-binding resolutions about the Armenian genocide, while completely ignoring genocides the US committed at home and abroad in places like the Philippines, e.g. link to en.wikisource.org
Those events and the Armenian genocide were happening only a few years apart.
Hostage,
We’re exceptional. Just ask us.
Shining city on a hill and all that… (actually a city, built with slave labor, on the remains of a Native American burial ground, but whatever…)
@seafoid and lysias
Yeah, As I was writing the thought felt too broad, but I do feel that we and most colonial powers have at least established a pivot point on the morality of doing it again. A reference with which to clarify what’s right and wrong going forward. As you both say, we have done it, and it took 150 years for us to start thinking about it, and another 100 years to decide on the morality. It’s a long-term, ongoing, imperfect, and painful process to maintain that direction, but it is a general positive direction imo.
When a few hundred people hold up a sign that says “Nakba, BS” it’s like someone here holding up a sign saying “Wounded Knee was OK with Me.” I don’t see that happening here, apart from hate groups.
So I think there is a real difference between there and here (though I admit our backsliding wrt Muslims), at this point. The questions to me are whether the Israelis will ever advance beyond “Trail of Tears”-era (1830s) US societal thinking, and what the means for the Palestinians.
When I read stuff like this, 60+ years after the initial fact, in an electronic info era, I don’t see them making the transition, if left to their own devices. The prospect of Israel learning these known lessons on the backs and necks of the Palestinians for the next 50-100 years is painful to contemplate. Drawing these distinctions makes me hope, rightly or wrongly, that the contrast between Israel’s entrenched 19. c mindset and modern thinking can be heightened, and enough people shocked, so the 50-100 years might become 10-30 years.
Points taken, though. BDS.
Good points. I think the US is ahead of Israel on a lot of counts but that there is much that could be done still.
Native American women are the most likely group to be raped in prison.
Very much to be done.
Very much to be done.
You can read the 4 May 2012 end of mission statement from the first ever visit to the United States by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples here:
link to unsr.jamesanaya.org
It addresses historic wrongful acts which have not been properly addressed; and ongoing activities that violate treaties, diminish or threaten lands and resources, and which deny Native Americans their right of self-determination.
Even the most cursory perusal of those three grim-faced harridans at the front is better than an archive full of studies and scholarly articles on why Jewish men marry “out”. My wife could whip any one, or all three, with one hand tied behind her back.
Of course they’re grim faced. They didn’t get to travel far from home on Birthright, with all that good lovin’ we’ve been reading about lately…
With regards from Bar Rafaeli-http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/swimsuit/model/bar_refaeli/index.htm
With regards to Bar Rafaeli:
Jewish extremists to model Bar Refaeli: Don’t marry DiCaprio
link to haaretz.com
Mooser, gee, I imagined a moose would find a harridan appealing. That guy in line with them looks pretty macho–doesn’t he? Antlers trembling imagining meeting him up close and personal?
@Mooser
Thank you for that incredibly racist statement.
Oh that really makes sense; jewish Mooser is anti-semitic. Right.
Any other insights you want to share Fredblogs?
Like the racist black man in Boondocks, there are people who are racist against their own race (or people in the case of a multi-racial people).
Re: ” Behind the Israeli flag motif, one man burned a paper version of the Palestinian flag and some held signs calling Nakba a “lie.” Others held entire pamphlets calling Nakba a lie, toting copies of rightist group Im Tirzu’s Nakba Harta, or “Nakba Bullshit.”
Here’s an interactive map of Palestinian villages destroyed during the Nakba:
link to electronicintifada.net
Despite right-wing protests, the Nakba was remembered, even a Tel Aviv U.
The next time that a ceremony to commemorate the Nakba is planned at a US university, and someone objects, the rejoinder will be, “Even at Tel Aviv University, the Nakba is remembered!”
And by the way, the “Nakba deniers” claiming the Israel was uninhabited before the Zionist pioneers arrived…that was the basis for an entire fraudulent book by Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial. The book, really a hoax, received hundreds of favorable reviews (and no negative reviews), and was endorsed by Bernard Lewis, Marty Peretz, Elie Weisel, Saul Bellow, Judah Reinharz (future president of Brandeis University) and many other people of considerable influence.
Norman Finkelstein, then a graduate student, is credited with refuting the Peters hoax.
“Norman Finkelstein, then a graduate student, is credited with refuting the Peters hoax.”
I think Chomsky’s support gave him the publicity he needed, since he was pretty well unknown at the time.
David and Ian Gilmour put the boot in as well. Yehoshua Porath called it a complete forgery.
Sounds a lot like what apologists for apartheid used to say about when Bantus arrived in South Africa.
Globescan poll for BBC Worldservice 2012:
The most negatively rated countries were, as in previous years, Iran (55% negative), Pakistan (51% negative), and Israel and North Korea (both 50% negative).
link to globescan.com
Thanks for the link Blake. Phil wrote about the 2011 results last year–
link to mondoweiss.net
This year’s results represent a further slide for the Light Unto the Nations. Interestingly however, in the U.S. opinion on Israel actually improved sharply–
Thank you watchdog press – not.
Thanks justice. I think this sums it up: Americans are generally quite naïve about Israel and how the Zionist state really functions. The general ignorance about Israel is primarily due to the fact that most people are woefully misinformed about the Middle East having grown up consuming news and entertainment products provided by Hollywood and the Zionist-controlled media.This has resulted in a very significant part of the American population suffering from an extremely distorted point-of-view.
I think Israel has lost the argument in Ireland
link to irishtimes.com
Sir, – At a time when more than 1,500 Palestinians locked in Israeli prisons are on hunger strike (two for more than 70 days) in protest against detention without charge, solitary confinement, and denial of family visits, Minister for Justice Alan Shatter generates news headlines by claiming that Irish citizens peacefully calling attention to such injustices are guilty of “cultural fascism” (Home News, May 9th). Is it any wonder that so many of today’s university students are sceptical of the very idea of social justice and human rights? – Yours, etc,
Dr LAURENCE DAVIS,
College Lecturer,
Department of Government,
University College Cork.
RE: “Others held entire pamphlets calling Nakba a lie, toting copies of rightist group Im Tirzu’s Nakba Harta, or ‘Nakba Bullshit.’ The booklet, published last year, is a ‘land without a people, people without a land’ polemical account of early Zionism.” ~ Allison Deger
FROM GEORGE ORWELL:
SOURCE – link to literaturecollection.com
The only thing that counts is an IAGT [Israeli-Auschwitz-Guilt-Trip] and the rest of the world’s suffering imaginary BS. I didn’t receive the memo, but I get this.
Spoke to the Tel Aviv office today and one colleague reported that the students are protesting about Nakba day and afterwards they’ll move on to the social justice issue encampment that ran last year and is likely to repeat this year. WTF.