Drop Site on Nostr: The New York Times criticized Zohran Mamdani’s Nakba Day video, suggesting it ...
The New York Times criticized Zohran Mamdani’s Nakba Day video, suggesting it lacked sufficient historical context by focusing on the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians without including what the paper indicates is necessary context about the Holocaust, the 1948 war, and the attacks surrounding Israel’s creation — a level of historical framing rarely seen in mainstream reporting on Palestinian attacks against Israel.
https://bird.makeup/users/_waleedshahid/statuses/2057952869450649924 There is something worth sitting with here. A Palestinian woman shared the story of losing her home, and the newspaper of record could not find a way to let that loss simply be. It had to be weighed, qualified, contested. What does it do to a people when even their grief cannot enter a room without first being searched? Few ever question what the annual Israel Day Parade leaves out.
