“Miss Palestine” Nadeen Ayoub has uploaded to her Instagram this video of her daydreaming about what she will do if the palestinian Arabs achieve their dream of a “Free Palestine”:
Her smile and the upbeat background music stand in chilling contrast to what she is suggesting: the flooding of Israel with all those who identify as palestinian Arab refugees. Given how she acted towards Miss Israel Melanie Shiraz, I suspect Ayoub’s dream does not involve living side-by-side with Jews. Just like that of her , convicted on five separate counts of murder of innocent civilians. Who knows whether she shares his opinion on tactics.
As for Jaffa, while Ayoub was born in the US, she claims her father’s parents moved from Jaffa and Ramle in 1948. They likely fled during the war. But here’s what you need to know: On November 30, 1947, an eight-man gang from Jaffa ambushed two Jewish buses near Kfar Sirkin and Hadera, killing seven passengers. This is widely cited by Benny Morris and other historians as the opening shots of the war. Concurrently, Arab irregulars and snipers stationed inside Jaffa began firing into neighboring Jewish quarters and the southern streets of Tel Aviv, effectively forcing thousands of Jewish residents along the border to flee their homes.
In response to these attacks, Jewish underground forces mobilized and launched retaliatory operations against Jaffa and its surrounding villages. As the fighting intensified and panic spread (due to the deteriorating military situation, economic collapse, and fears stemming from fighting elsewhere in the country), large numbers of Arab civilians fled by land and sea.
In other words, Ayoub’s ancestors fled Jaffa largely due to their people’s own violence against the Jews. It was an episode of FAFO.
Be that as it may, in subsequent decades, the Arab population of Jaffa gradually grew again through natural increase and internal migration, reaching around 20,000 today. They have full citizenship rights, economic opportunity, and cultural presence – a prime example of how Israel is anything but an apartheid state.
Which brings us back to Ayoub’s video. She presents a “Free Palestine” as some idyllic homecoming. But scratch beneath the surface and it amounts to demanding the destruction of the world’s only Jewish state, based on a narrative that ignores why so many Arab residents left in 1948 in the first place.
And if she shares the views of her ex father in law, perhaps that destruction is not just demographic in nature.
