Thread by @Shokofe59542948

Examples of appropriation of #Arabic toponyms
List will name #Palestinian villages, place names depopulated before or in 1948, followed by #Israeli settlements with toponyms derived from names of destroyed #Palestinian villages:

■ #Lubya
Depopulated July 1948 (Bean in #Arabic)

● #Lavi (Kibbutz); founded 1948 (Lion in #Hebrew)

■ #Al-Kabri ( Western #Galilee) depopulated on May 21st 1948
● #Kabri (Kibbutz); founded 1949

■ #Alma (#Sadad district)
Depopulated on October 30th, 1948
● #Alma (#moshav ) founded in 1949

■#Biriyya;
Depopulated on May 2,

-, 1948

■ #Amqa (#Acre are)
Depopulated october, 1948
● #Amka (Moshav) founded 1949

■ #Sajara (Lower #Galilee);
Depopulated: July, 1948
#Tree in #Arabic
#AynZaytun (Western #Galilee)
Spring #Olives in #Arabic
● #Ilaniya (Tree in #Hebrew)+ #EinZeitim (kibbutz) Spring olive

Was originally founded in 1891, north of the arab village #AynZeiutun abandoned during WWI, 6 muslims & 1 Jew were recorded there in 1931, living in 4 houses
The Jewish settlement was reestablished in 1946

■ #Indur ( Marj Ibn Amer)
Depopulated: 1948
#Arabic toponym possibly pre

- serves #Canannite site of #Endor
#Fuleh (#Fava bean in #Arabic)
Depopulated: in 1925
#TalalAdas (#Lentils Hill in #Arabic)
● #EinDor (Kibbutz) founded 1948, Dor Spring in Hebrew
#Alfula (town); founded in 1925
#TelAdashim ( moshav) established in 1923
Lentils Hill in #Hebrew

■ #AlMujaydil (village)
Depopulated: July, 1948
● #MigdalHaEmek (town)
Founded in 1952, Tower of the Valley in #Hebrew

■ #AynHawd
Depopulated: 1948, Spring Basin in #Arabic
● #EinHod (Artis's colony)
Founded in 1953, Spring's Glory in Hebrew

■ #Eshwa or #Ishwa

Depopulated: July, 1948
● #Eshtaol (moshav) founded: December, 1949

■ #Aqir
Depopulated: May 6th, 1948
● #KiratEkron (town), founded: 1948

■ #AynKarim or #EinKarim (west of #Jerusalem)
Depopulated: 1948
Generous Spring in #Arabic
●#EinKarem (Jewish neighborhood in west-

- # Jerusalem) Vine Spring in Hebrew

■KafrBirim (northern #Galilee)
Depopulated: October, 1948
#BuddingVillage in #Arabic
●#Baram (kibbutz)
Established June, 1949
Son of the People in #Hebrew

■ #Mahlul
Depopulated: 1920's
●#Nahlal founded in 1921

■ #Jibra
Depop-

- updated in the 1920's
●#Gvat ( kibbutz)
Founded in 1926

■#AlBassa (western #Galilee )
Depopulated: May 14th, 1948
●#Batzat (nature reserve)
Renamed after 1948

■ #WadialHawarith meaning Valley of Ploughing
● #EmikHefer Valley of the Digging in Hebrew
#EinHaHoresh kibbutz

- founded in 1931, was one of the #First #ZionistSettlements in the northern part of #WadialHawarith meaning the Plowman's Spring

■ #WadiSarar or #WadiSurar (western #Jerusalem)
Pebble Sream in #Arabic
● #NahalSonekNatureReserve created in 1965
Stream of Fruitless Tree de-

- rived from the #Arabic toponym made to sound like a name from the #Midrash, the body of #Exegsis of the #Torah

■#SeilImran (#Naqab)
Stream of Imran in Arabic
● #NahalAmram; Stream of Amram, recalling the biblical name of the father of #Moses & #Aaron

■ #JabalHanuf -

- (Naqab)
#MountHaruf in #Arabic
●#HarHarif: Sharp Mountain in #Hebrew

■#JabalDibba ( Naqab)
#HumpHill
● #HarDlaat
#MountPumpkin in Hebrew

■ #TallasSafi (northwest of #alKhalil
Depopulated: July, 1948
#WhiteHill in #Arabic
● #TelTzafitNationalPark

■ #BenDajan -

- southeast of #Jaffa
Depopulated: April, 1948
● #BeitDagon
Founded in 1948
House of Grain in Hebrew

■#Sasa ( upper #Galilee)
Depopulated: October, 1948
● #Sasa (kibbutz)
Founded January, 1949

■#Hittin ( eastern #Galilee)
Depopulated: July, 1948
●#KfarHittim (moshev)

- established in 1936
Village of Wheat in Hebrew

■ #AlKhadra or #alKhderia ( central #Palestine)
Green in Arabic
● #Hadera established in 1891 as a farming #ZionistColony, today a major #Israeli city
And toponym makes NO SENSE in #Hebrew
Lol

■ #Meiron or #Mayrun ( 5 Km -

- west of #Safad(
Depopulated: in 1948, name is associated with the ancient #Canaanite city of #Merom or #Maroma
● #Meron: ( moshav)
Founded in 1949

■ #AlMajdal (a coastal town in the south)
Depopulated: between November - June, 1950
●#Israeli city renamed to the #Hebrew -

- sounding #Migdalad in 1949 & subsequently to the biblical sounding #Ashkelon, #Arabic: #Asqalan
#Greek #Ascalon

■ #Zirin (village) in #MarjIbnAmer ( #JezreelValley)
Depopulated: summer of 1948
#Sowing in #Arabic
● #Mizra ( kibbutz) in the #JezreelValley
Founded in 1923

Also #Sowing in #Arabic
Hosted the #PalmahHeadquarters until 1946
#Yizreel (kibbutz)
Established in August, 1948 to the west of the remains of the depopulated #Zirin

■#Yazur (town) 6 km east of #Jaffa
Depopulated: in Spring of 1948
●#AzorSettlementm the historic

-#Palestinian #Muslim #Mosque or shrine which was turned into a #JewishSynagogue and renamed #ShaareyTziyon meaning the #GatesofZion

Citation: Nur, Masalha (2018) #Palestine A Four Thousand Year History ( London UK: Zed Books): pp 363-365.

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Truth on your side, burden of proof rests with challenger. There is no reason to debate within a colonisers narrative. No room for screenshots, just facts, it is disrespectful to any cause, especially one attempting to erase history as we speak to not be well versed. Meaning u

Can make your case without anything but books. Read more than 1 or 2 , read them all, again & again till you feel comfortable challenging anyone.
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