Democratic New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was slammed after his public statement championing “Nakba Day,” drawing sharp criticism from historians and policy analysts who accused the lawmaker of presenting a highly selective and revisionist version of the 1948 war. Today marks Nakba Day, 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. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us… pic.twitter.com/z2PBOaJq5Z — Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) May 15, 2026 Happy Nakba Day to you and yours! I celebrate the failed attempt to Holocaust the middle eastern Jews. Are you with me? — Katya Sedgwick (@KatyaSedgwick) May 16, 2026 The “Nakba” is the biggest load of cry-bully bullshit In 1948 the Arabs waged a war of extermination against Jews If they had won, all those performing pain today would be posting about a day of joy and celebration But they lost – and now they cry crocodile tears to the world… — leekern (@leekern13) May 16, 2026 Shame on your @NYCMayor. This is political propaganda masquerading as compassion. Mamdani erases the fact that the Arab world rejected the UN's partition plan which would have created a Palestinian state and instead launched a war to destroy the newborn Jewish state in 1948. He… — Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) May 15, 2026   The “Nakba” was when an Arab paramilitary group led by a former colonel in the Nazi Wehrmacht – with an official emblem featuring a sword stabbing a Jewish Star of David – failed to carry out a second Holocaust against Jews three years after the Nazi Holocaust pic.twitter.com/1NPY9KT8fZ — Drew Pavlou