"Israel's mission to the United Nations in New York, led by Ambassador Gilad Erdan, launched a novel exhibition on Tuesday at the Manhattan UN headquarters on the 'Jewish Nakba,' the expulsion of the Jews from Arab countries and Iran. The opening comes a day ahead of the 'Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from Arab Countries and Iran' that is marked on Wednesday.
Erdan said he launched the exhibition as an attempt 'to fight in every way the false narrative that the Palestinians spread at the UN.'
The showcase features historical documentation that illustrates the lives of the Jews in Arab countries and Iran and their history, which were cut short following the UN Partition Plan in which a Jewish and an Arab state were voted upon on November 29, 1947, which led to Israel's war of independence half a year later on May 15, 1948.
The day following the UN decision, Arab countries began to expel the Jews with violence and brutality, and hundreds of thousands were forced to flee, leaving their lives behind.
'For 75 years now here in the UN, a completely false story has been told about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,' Erdan said. 'Since the Partition Plan, which the Arabs rejected and the State of Israel accepted, the story of the Palestinian nakba [catastrophe] has been told here at the UN, a story that erases the real Nakba that occurred immediately after the announcement of the Partition Plan: the story of the nakba of Arab Jewry.'
The ambassador continued: 'A day after the decision, the Jews were violently and cruelly expelled from Arab countries and Iran. This year, after a long struggle, we managed to place an exhibition with photos that document the story of the real nakba. I will continue to fight for the truth and against the false narrative that the Palestinians and their supporters spread.'
The exhibition is slated to run for a week..."