1948. The War of Independence as it is called in Israel. Others know it as the Arab-Israeli War. After the Partition Plan to split Palestine into part-Arab and part-Jewish, as many of you probably know, every Arab country around Israel waged a war of annihilation to basically prevent the state from being formed.

Now, there’s different ranges of people, you know, who say, like, they were gonna kill all the Jews. I doubt they were gonna kill everybody but I think they probably would’ve made them refugees. But whatever it doesn’t matter. They waged a war of extermination on Israel in 1948. Now here’s the ironic part about this all. At that time there was 1 million Jews living in the Arab and Muslim world. 1 million. These Jews were living in those countries for 2,000+ years, okay?

When the war started then antisemitism spiked greatly in the Arab and the Muslim world. And because of that, pretty much 99.9% of all the Jews in the Middle East were forced to leave their country under threat of violence to go to Israel. So, in trying to prevent the State of Israel, they all became antisemitic, kicked all the Jews out, a million Jews, there was a million of them, and then they forced them to move to the only fucking place that they could in the entire world, which was Israel.

The Nakba Factsheet by Jewish Voice for Peace.

More Information with additional links by the Institute of Middle East Understanding.

Middle East Eye article about the Nakba.

Finally, DecolonizePalestine, which is an excellent resource to learn more about Palestine. This is the second in their ‘Introduction to Palestine’ series so you can start with the first one.