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Article Excerpt
A significant milestone was passed this month: the sixtieth anniversary of the Jewish triumph and the Palestinian catastrophe. In most years, only the birth of Israel is noted in the American media, except by fringe periodicals like this one. This year, however, the nakba was marked as well, even by such establishment publications as The New York Times and The New Yorker. Who had so much as seen the word in print until recently, or heard "ethnic cleansing" or "apartheid" applied to Israeli policies? Then, on May 15, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni instructed the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority that the word nakba was verboten. Apparently, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon had used it in expressing anniversary condolences to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The use of such a word implies that there might have been an injustice for which Jews are responsible. Israel refuses to accept this, as it would imply a moral requirement to deal with Palestinian suffering. In the official Israeli view, Jews are victims by definition and never perpetrators.
Jews all over the world have been moving beyond this position, however, as can be seen in an...
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