“Nakba” officially removed from the curriculum in occupied Palestine

Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar briefed the cabinet on plans for the start of the school year, and announced that the word "nakba", which means "catastrophe" in Arabic and is used by Arabs to describe the formation of the Zionist entity, will be taken out of lesson plans. The plan will take action and be implemented on Tuesday.

He says: "What "Israeli" Arabs experienced during the [1948 War of Independence] was certainly a tragedy," Sa'ar said. "But the word 'Nakba,' whose meaning is similar to 'Holocaust' in this context, will no longer be used. The creation of the State of "Israel" cannot be referred to as a tragedy, and the education system in the Arab sector will revise its studies [regarding this] in elementary schools."

"Israeli" Arab advocacy groups on Sunday reacted sternly to the announcement from "Israeli" occupation Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar. They described the events surrounding the 1948 war as catastrophic, as Arabs had been expelled from their homes and became refugees after their lands were confiscated by "Israel".

On another note, a group of refugee camp committees in the Gaza Strip wanted the United Nations to remove history of the Jewish Holocaust from its classroom curriculum.
Interestingly, Palestinian refugees asked UNRWA to remove material about the Nazi holocaust from the Palestinian curriculum in their schools. That happens at the time when the Education Ministry of the Zionist entity forcibly removes the term "Nakba". They see that Palestinians should be taught about the Nakba (catastrophe), the term refering to the forced exodus of some 750,000 refugees from their homes when the Zionist State was established, rather than the Holocaust.