Nakba

[ nok-buh; Arabic nak-bah ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the mass expulsion and dispossession of Palestinians from the partitioned state of Palestine by Jewish militia and Israeli military forces between 1947 and 1949.

Origin of Nakba¹

First recorded in 1960–65; from Arabic: literally, “catastrophe, disaster”

Asking questions about the nakba is the biggest taboo in Israeli Jewish society.

The question Tarachansky explores in the film is how Israelis respond to the subject of the nakba.

The first Nakba, or catastrophe, was when Palestinians were displaced in 1948.

Palestinians call their displacement from Syria “a second Nakba,” Ellis said.

Palestinians who tried to enter Israel from Syria and Lebanon on Nakba Day recently were shot.

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