It turns out that the “Nakba Survivor” who stars in Mayor Mamdani’s official NY City Hall Palestinian propaganda video yesterday, is literally a “European settler”.
In the late 19th century, Muslim Bosnians (including Inea’s grandparents), fled Bosnia to Ottoman Syria, after Austria-Hungary took control of Bosnia.
They feared that the Christians would seek revenge on Muslims after centuries of mistreatment by them.
The family then moved to Tulkarem which after 1948 was under Jordanian control, not Israeli. So there was no “nakba” there.
Because the Jewish population developed Jerusalem’s medical care under the British mandate, Inea herself was born in Jerusalem but the family remained in Tulkarem.
In the 1930’s, Inea’s father was offered a Job in England, he returned to Mandatory Palestine after a few years, but in 1948 they decided to move back to England.
They were not expelled, and no one forced them to move to England. In any case, Tulkarem, and the old city of Jerusalem remained under Jordanian Arab control. No Arabs were forced to leave from Tulkarem in 1948.
So in summary, this is a European with no strong roots in the land of Israel, whose family made the decision to immigrate back to the continent of their grandparents instead of remaining under Arab control in what was part of Jordan after 1948.
Furthermore the “visit Palestine” poster on Inea’s wall which is featured in the video is not a Palestinian Arab poster as Mayor Mamdani’s video implies. It is a Zionist poster designed and drawn by the Jewish artist Franz Kraus to encourage Jewish tourism to the holy land.
The above text was written by this historian Josh whos an Expert in Israel’s History and Archeology.
Slightly edited and improved the English by Tom Gross
Slightly edited and improved the English by Tom Gross
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