Nakba Day has come and gone, but the controversy lives on in New York City of all places.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted to social media a story about the Nakba, which is how Arabs describe the “catastrophe” of Israel’s creation (under the UN) and the fallout for displaced Palestinians. His office produced a four-minute profile of Inea Bushnaq, a Palestinian American “Nakba survivor” living in New York.

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