You thought “the old men died and the young men forgot”: this is how the Nakba became a dream into a real aspiration
The May 2021 riots revealed the growing preoccupation of some Israeli Arabs with the Nakba and the “Right of Return,” which affected the riots. • A new study by the “Jerusalem Center for Public and State Affairs” authored by Nadav Shragai, It is no longer a dream but a real aspiration • “In the end, the Arabs in Israel are Palestinians; if you do not recognize it – you are completing yourself”

Aya Zinati, a native of Lod, is a public figure familiar to some Westerners in Israel. Despite this, six weeks after the riots among the Jews of Lod, she surprised many who did not know her views in depth. Zinati, now a resident of Haifa, works at Shatil, a foundation of the New Israel Fund, and is active in the Gisha and Zochrot organizations, and clarified that “despite the severe pain and real fear in Lod, she was born hopeful that we could talk about the right of return …” .
“We are in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem – the same people,” she said. “We are not talking about ‘coexistence.’ It is not a matter of ‘living together’ in mixed cities.










