Dallas Public Library Head: ‘Nakba’ Event Was Not Approved; ‘it Will Not Take Place’

A forthcoming exhibition about the nakba, the Palestinian name for the catastrophe of modern-day Israel's establishment as a state in 1948, was not approved by a library, according to the director of the Dallas public library system. Photo via JNS

The head of the Dallas public library system is denying that a library green-lit an upcoming exhibition about the nakba, the term Palestinians use to refer to the “catastrophe” of modern-day Israel’s establishment as a state in 1948.

 But links on the website of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, the system’s main library branch, show that it hosted a nakba event last year by the same group.