In their quest to defame Israel and rob it of its legitimacy, anti-Israel detractors have sought to rewrite history and erase three thousand years of Jewish history in the land of Israel.
While such ahistorical campaigns are nothing new, they received significant attention in a November 17 article in The Toronto Star titled: “Why some Indigenous advocates and Palestinians feel they’re ‘natural allies.’”
Written by Richie Assaly, a digital producer at the newspaper, the 1,500-word article gave extensive coverage to at best misleading, and at worst, overtly distorted claims which masqueraded as factual.
Assaly made reference to “the Nakba – a term that means “catastrophe” in Arabic, and that refers to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians that resulted from the Arab-Israeli War and the creation of Israel in 1948.”
Although Assaly’s definition of the term is correct, significant context is missing. According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the term is often used “to insinuate that the very existence of Israel is a catastrophe and to question the legitimacy of Israel as the Jewish national homeland.”
Regrettably, Assaly does not share with readers that much of the “mass displacement and dispossession” of Arabs in 1948 – following the invasion of newly reborn Israel by its Arab neighbours – was at the hands of Arab leaders who actively encouraged Arabs in Israel to leave the Jewish State, expecting it to be quickly defeated, and thus able to return...
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