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May 16, 2022

Abolish Nakba Day

Palestinians would be better served by celebrating freedom than by nourishing grievance.

Yesterday, Palestinians and their sympathizers commemorated “Nakba Day,” whose name—the Arabic word for “catastrophe”—refers to the creation of the state of Israel. But if 1948 was a catastrophe for Palestinian Arabs expelled from their homes, asks Bassam Eid, was it not also a catastrophe for the Jews expelled from Jerusalem and the West Bank—not to mention those expelled from Arab lands? Eid urges Palestinians to abandon these annual commemorations:

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May 16, 2022

  1. What the War in Ukraine Means for Iran, Israel, and Syria

    The “war between the wars” goes on.

  2. Abolish Nakba Day

    Palestinians would be better served by celebrating freedom than by nourishing grievance.

  3. There Is No Judaism without Zionism

    Jewish universalism has never thrived without particularism.

  4. The Women’s Prayers of 18th-Century Jewry, and the Women Who Wrote Them

    Leah Horovitz’s tkhines.

  5. A Rare Tunnel, and Rarer Coin, Testify to the Last Hurrah of Jewish Sovereignty in Ancient Times

    Bar Kokhba in Tekoa.