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Word “nakba” banned from textbook in Israel
The word nakba, Arabic for the “catastrophe” of the 1948 war, has been removed by Israel’s education ministry from a school textbook for Arab children. The ministry has said it does not want to undertmine the legitimacy of the state or promote Arab extremism. Israeli and Palestinian activists are calling the move “nakba denial”. Read […]
23 Jul 09

The word nakba, Arabic for the “catastrophe” of the 1948 war, has been removed by Israel’s education ministry from a school textbook for Arab children. The ministry has said it does not want to undertmine the legitimacy of the state or promote Arab extremism. Israeli and Palestinian activists are calling the move “nakba denial”. Read more here

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