Good-Bye New York City: Not A Welcome Place For Jews

 Nadene Goldfoot                                        

Nakba with New York's Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York City, a position he has held since January 1, 2026, is showing it's true colors. Prior to his mayoral election, he represented the 36th District in the New York State Assembly.  Other New York mayors are not happy with it.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has repeatedly made clear that he is strongly pro-Palestine and critical of the Israeli government, took to social media on Friday to recognize Nakba Remembrance Day, thus doubling down on his beliefs.  Origin of the Commemoration: The day has been marked since 1949 and was officially inaugurated by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1998.

In a May 15 post on X, the mayor described Nakba Day as “an annual day of 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.”

The post included a video interview with a Palestinian New Yorker named Inea, who described her experience as a 9-year-old of having to flee her home during the historical event. 

I'm going to show how the Nakba is full of lies.  Mamdani is celebrating an occurrence the Palestinians caused to themselves.  Please keep reading:  

                             Chaim Weizmann and Emir Faisal, almost buddies at the conference.  They wanted the same thing.  

During the Paris Peace Conference (which spanned from 1919 to 1920), Weizmann did, however, negotiate and collaborate closely with an Arab leader, Emir Faisal of the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz. Weizmann and Faisal famously signed the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, which was designed to foster an alliance. Under this treaty, Faisal supported Jewish settlement in Palestine in exchange for Zionist support for the establishment of an independent Arab state in much of the former Ottoman Empire.

What Palestinians are  truly remembering is this:  The UN Partition Plan (1947): In November 1947, the United Nations passed a resolution to divide Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states. The Arab leadership rejected the plan, and tensions quickly escalated into conflict.  The world had been in conflict with World War I.  The Ottoman Empire, which contained Palestine belatedly, was on the side of the Axis headed by Germany.  The League of Nations, the mother of the United Nations,                                

    1920 San Remo Conference:  The post-WWI San Remo Conference allocates former Ottoman territories to Britain and France and recognizes Jewish self-determination in Palestine by adopting the language of the Balfour Declaration, decisions the League of Nations confirms two years later.

                                                           

At the end of World War I, the League of Nations was in charge of managing international cooperation and maintaining global peace. It was established in 1920 through the Treaty of Versailles, while the United Nations was not founded until 1945, at the end of World War II. These 51 founding members were: The "Big Five" (Permanent Security Council): Republic of China, France, Soviet Union (USSR), United Kingdom, and United States.  Other Founding Members: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (Belarus), Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippine Commonwealth (Philippines), Poland, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukraine), Union of South Africa, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yugosla.  

David Ben-Gurion, then the chairman of the Jewish Agency, announced the birth of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. He proclaimed the independence of the new Jewish state at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, while Golda Meir was among the 25 people who signed the historic Israeli Declaration of Independence.  Israel was created after 30 years of waiting patiently and legally to be among other nations. With such developments as the League of Nations and United Nations, there was to be no more of a Roman creation that would attack any  group like it did to Judah in 70 CE again.  They were to have checks and balances.  

Israel was officially admitted as a member state of the United Nations on May 11, 1949, though it was able to announce its birth when the UK pulled out, ending the 30 year mandate, on  May 14, 1948.  The 1948 War: As the British Mandate expired and Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948, neighboring Arab armies intervened, leading to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

The UN General Assembly approved Israel's application for membership via Resolution 273, with 37 countries voting in favor and 12 against. This historic vote made Israel the 59th member of the organization.

In 1945, there was no mass forced displacement (or "moving") of Palestinians. The mass displacement of Palestinians occurred during the 1947–1948 war, known as the Nakba. 

Newly born Israel found itself immersed in a 1947-1948 war. The Arab-Israeli  War of 1948 broke out when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel  on May 14, 1948. A few look familiar today:  Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.  

                   Avraham Stern "Yair", (1907-1942 died at 35)

 In 1945, the primary Jewish groups in Mandatory Palestine were operating as underground militias fighting British rule or as settlement and land organizations of which my cousin, Stanley Goldfoot, fighting  with the Stern Group, led by Avraham Stern or Yair, who died in 1942,  was one. He was killed by the British police while being arrested;  something happening many times lately in the USA against the Blacks.  The displacement was driven by intense fighting. The Stern Group, officially known as Lehi (an acronym for Lohamei Herut Yisrael or "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel"), was a group of young men digusted with the man-handling of the British against the Jews and  during the 1947–1948 period, they transitioned from an underground anti-British resistance movement into an active combatant faction during the Arab-Israeli War.  The British, of course, called them a "gang, the Stern Gang."  So it was the "Stern Gang" who won against 5 Arab nations?  There was no IDF in those days;  the ink was still wet on the papers they signed for their birth!  Perhaps the Arabs just scattered, themselves, afraid of the Jews? 

Case Closed 

Resource

https://www.amny.com/news/nyc-jewish-community-reacts-to-mamdani-nakba-day/

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