Deputy Knesset Speaker Nava Boker has written to Mayor Yona Yahav of Haifa, demanding that he cancel a "mass Nakba event", scheduled for the Haifa Cinematheque at the end of the week.
Nakba is the Arabic word for catastrophe, used by hostile Arabs to describe the creation of the modern Jewish state of Israel.The event is being led by the radical left-wing Zochrot organization, and according Boker, "The organization is working with all its might to disseminate the false Nakba narrative, according to which the State of Israel ethnically cleansed many cities and towns during the War of Independence." She said the organization "systematically refrained from presenting the truth to the effect that it was the Arabs who initiated the war for destruction of the Land of Israel and the destruction of the Zionist dream."