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The Register-Guard · Eugene, Oregon · 14 December 2007

CP-2007-005

‘Al-Nakba denial’ pervades letter

Letter to the editor

‘Al-Nakba denial’ pervades letter — The Register-Guard, 14 December 2007
The Register-Guard · Eugene, Oregon · 14 December 2007

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"Claire Gumbs' Dec. 4 letter, 'Palestine no longer exists,' provides a flagrant example of 'al-Nakba denial.' No less objectionable than Holocaust denial, our human rights community should protest this ignorance. Gumbs' letter reflects a carefully orchestrated, 59-year campaign of al-Nakba memoricide in an attempt to legitimize an apartheid state supported by U.S. taxpayer money. Gumbs states, 'there is no such thing as ... a Palestinian.' Please tell that to the indigenous refugees and their families of the 531 villages and 11 urban areas that were brutally ethnically..."

Context added by this archive

A reader using the word plainly, and arguing about it, while the paper's own newsroom was still putting it in quotation marks.

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"‘Al-Nakba denial’ pervades letter," The Register-Guard, 14 December 2007. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2007-005. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2007-005

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