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Mamdani slammed for ‘corrupting history’ about the creation of Israel in social media post marking ‘Nakba Day’

Nypost · 🇮🇱 public Israel · · 677 words · By Carl Campanile; Anna Young
Historical Revisionism Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Antisemitism and public safety
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Mamdani slammed for ‘corrupting history’ about the creation of Israel in social media post marking ‘Nakba Day’ Mayor Zohran Mamdani was blasted for “corrupting history” about the creation of Israel in a vile social media post paying tribute to Palestinians –…

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Mamdani slammed for ‘corrupting history’ about the creation of Israel in social media post marking ‘Nakba Day’ Mayor Zohran Mamdani was blasted for “corrupting history” about the creation of Israel in a vile social media post paying tribute to Palestinians –…

Why it matters

Mamdani, a staunch critic of Israel, honored “Nakba Day” – marking what Palestinians call the “catastrophe” of the Jewish State’s declaration of independence on May 14, 1948 – in a Friday night post, that included a polished video interview with “Nakba…

Common ground

“Today marks Nakba Day, an annual remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed,” Hizzoner wrote in an X post on his official mayoral…

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Appeal to Fear: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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Loaded Language 90% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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Name Calling / Labeling 85% confidence
Attaching a negative label to a person or group to reject them without evidence.
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Appeal to Fear 80% confidence
Building support by instilling anxiety or panic in the audience.
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Appeal to Anger 75% confidence
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Inea Bushnaq... is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor”
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Evidence confirms Inea Bushnaq is a Palestinian American writer born in Jerusalem and currently living in New York.
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web search NEUTRAL — Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe"The Nakba did not begin in 1948. Its origins lie over two centuries ago…."So begins this four-part series on the 'nakba...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7FML0wzJ6A
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web search NEUTRAL — Inea Bushnaq is a Palestinian American writer and translator born in Jerusalem, educated in England, and now living in New York. She edited and translated the collection Arab Folktales.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/09/it-was-or-it-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Nakba is one of the key events in modern Middle East history and one that has come to define the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ever since. Also known as "The Catastrophe", it began during late 1947…
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/what-is-nakba-palestine-i…
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Claim 2: “Nakba Day – marking what Palestinians call the “catastrophe” of the Jewish State’s declaration of independence on May 14, 1948”
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Wikipedia and TIME confirm that Nakba Day commemorates the 'catastrophe' associated with the 1948 establishment of the State of Israel.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Nakba (Arabic: النَّكْبَة, romanized: an-Nakba, lit. 'the catastrophe') is the ethnic cleansing [14] of Palestinian Arabs by Israel through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, pr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
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web search NEUTRAL — Nakba Day (Arabic: ذكرى النكبة, romanized: Ḏikrā an-Nakba, lit. 'Memory of the Catastrophe') is the day of commemoration for the Nakba, also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, when the Palestinian …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_Day
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web search NEUTRAL — May 15, 2024 · On the anniversary of the Nakba, Palestinians remember the profound loss and ongoing struggle for justice.
https://time.com/6978612/nakba-day-history/
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Claim 3: “the United Nations voted to create the State of Israel and a Palestinian state”
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Wikipedia and other sources confirm UN Resolution 181 (1947) recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states.
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web search NEUTRAL — Drafted by the UN Special Committee on Palestine on 3 September 1947, the Plan was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947 as Resolution 181. The resolution recommended the creation of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_…
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web search NEUTRAL — On Nov. 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews, allowing for the formation of the Jewish state of Israel.
https://archive.nytimes.com/learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/…
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web search NEUTRAL — In 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted a Partition Plan, which called for both an independent Jewish and an Arab state in what was then British-controlled Mandatory Palestine. The plan — Resolution …
https://unpacked.media/farha-and-the-nakba-what-really-happe…
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Claim 4: “the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed”
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The specific figure of 'more than 700,000 Palestinians' expelled between 1947 and 1949 is cited in the web results describing Mamdani's post and general Nakba history.
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web search NEUTRAL — Since the declaration of Israel's establishment in 1948, conflict has existed between Israel and the surrounding Arab countries, rooted in conflict over territory also claimed by Palestinian Arabs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab–Israeli_conflict
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web search NEUTRAL — “Nakba is Arabic for ‘catastrophe,'” the video says. “It refers to the expulsion and displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/mamdani-posts-nakba-day-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Palestinian Arab state was to be created on just 42% of Palestine, even though Muslim and Christian Palestinians made up a large majority of the population and were indigenous to all of the land. …
https://imeu.org/resources/resources/quick-facts-the-palesti…
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Claim 5: “roughly 850,000 Jews were expelled or forced to flee Arab countries in the years that followed”
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While the general fact of Jewish refugees from Arab countries is mentioned in the search results, the specific number '850,000' is not explicitly corroborated across multiple independent sources in the provided evidence; it is a common historical claim but not verified by the specific snippets provided.
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web search NEUTRAL — Following Israel's victory in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Jews living in the West Bank or Gaza were expelled to Israel. Arabs caught on the Palestinian side of the ceasefire line could not return to th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab–Israeli_conflict
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web search NEUTRAL — Israel was recognised by the UN the following year. What was the 1948 Arab-Israeli war?About 750,000 Palestinians fled, or were forced from, their homes on land which became Israel and ended up as ref…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgr71z0jp4o
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web search NEUTRAL — Ros-Lehtinen added that "Jewish refugees who were forced to flee Arab countries and Iran endured unimaginable hardships. Their plight has been ignored by the United Nations, other international bodies…
https://web.archive.org/web/20210507095733/https://www.ynetn…
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Claim 6: “Mayor Zohran Mamdani... honored “Nakba Day”... in a Friday night post”
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Web search results confirm Zohran Mamdani is the Mayor of NYC (sworn in Jan 2026) and specifically reference a video/post he made regarding Nakba Day.
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web search NEUTRAL — Zohran Kwame Mamdani is an American politician who has served as the 112th mayor of New York City since January 2026.of Mamdani's campaign was attributed in part to his use of social media to reach po…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani
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web search NEUTRAL — We're just a month away from the hotly-contested Democratic primary for New York City Mayor. And one of the candidates -- Queens assemblyman Zohran Mamdani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn0sFssPZTg
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web search NEUTRAL — Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as Mayor of the City of New York on January 1st, 2026. Prior to becoming Mayor, he represented the 36th New York State Assembly District and its neighborhoods of Astoria, D…
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office
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Claim 7: “First Lady Rama Duwaji has also come under fire for social media posts praising Palestinian terrorists, bashing Israel, and reportedly once liking posts celebrating the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist massacre in Israel.”
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Multiple independent reports confirm Rama Duwaji liked posts celebrating the Oct 7 attacks and posted content criticizing Israel/Tel Aviv.
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web search NEUTRAL — The group’s post, liked by Rama Duwaji, celebrating the events of October 7th. The caption on the side of the post described Gaza as an “open air prison” while detailing conditions inside the Palestin…
https://nypost.com/2026/03/06/us-news/nyc-first-lady-rama-du…
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web search NEUTRAL — Duwaji also liked posts supporting pro-Palestinian demonstrations that took place the day after the attack. These included material from organizations calling on people to stand with the Palestinian c…
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-889116
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web search NEUTRAL — Celebrated Palestine Militants Repeatedly. That same year, she also posted on Twitter, venting out her anger toward Tel Aviv, writing that it "shouldn't exist in the first place" and referring to its …
https://www.ibtimes.sg/rama-duwaji-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdanis…
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Claim 8: “five Arab nations – Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq – “rejected it and went to war with Israel.””
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Multiple sources list Egypt, Jordan (Transjordan), Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq as the nations that rejected the plan and fought Israel in 1948.
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web search NEUTRAL — Israel and Iraq had been foes since 1948. Iraq participated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and later backed Egypt and Syria in the 1967 and 1973 wars. In June 1981, Israel attacked and destroyed newly …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab–Israeli_conflict
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web search NEUTRAL — The Jews agreed, but the Palestinian Arabs and surrounding Arab states (Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq) rejected the plan, leading to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the subsequent creation of …
https://www.worldpress.org/article.cfm/when-the-world-looks-…
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web search NEUTRAL — After David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel a Jewish state on May 14, 1948, the military forces of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Transjordan, Lebanon, and a group from Saudi Arabia launched a united attack to dest…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/un-partition-plan-november-29…
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Claim 9: “she apologized in April for the “hurt” caused by alarming social media posts”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence was found in the search results regarding an apology issued by Rama Duwaji in April.
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