{"id":236051,"date":"2026-05-18T23:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236051\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:14:12","slug":"historical-revisionism-nyc-jewish-community-leaders-angered-over-mayor-mamdanis-nakba-day-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236051\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Historical revisionism\u2019: NYC Jewish community leaders angered over Mayor Mamdani\u2019s Nakba Day post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/?s=Mayor+Zohran+Mamdani+\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, who has repeatedly made clear that he is strongly pro-Palestine and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/mayor-mamdani-wont-attend-israel-day-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">critical of the Israeli government<\/a>, took to social media on Friday to recognize Nakba Remembrance Day, thus doubling down on his beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>In a May 15 post on X, the mayor described Nakba Day as \u201can 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/nyc-jewish-community-reacts-to-mamdani-nakba-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\u2018Historical revisionism\u2019: NYC Jewish community leaders angered over Mayor Mamdani\u2019s Nakba Day post &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has repeatedly made clear that he is strongly pro-Palestine and critical of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[92337,22925,92338,9,12,56,63,65,64,92339,19660],"class_list":["post-236051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-city-council-member-jim-gennaro","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-nakba-day","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-politics-in-nyc","tag-the-lawfare-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}