I noted earlier that Inea Bushnaq, the New York woman in Mamdani's...
Oren Kessler@OrenKessler
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May 20, 2026
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I noted earlier that Inea Bushnaq, the New York woman in Mamdani's Nakba Day video, is from a Bosniak family (Bushnaq = بشناق = Bosniak) that settled in Ottoman Palestine in the 1880s – the same time the first modern wave of Jewish settlers arrived.
But the plot thickens...
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But the plot thickens...
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As Nuseir Yassin, founder of Nas Daily who grew up in the Galilee village of Arraba, wrote:
"Elders in my Arab village in Israel told me the richest Palestinians sold their land and left first. 80 years later, their grandkids now claim to be displaced victims..."
"Elders in my Arab village in Israel told me the richest Palestinians sold their land and left first. 80 years later, their grandkids now claim to be displaced victims..."
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In Arieh Avneri's extremely meticulous "The Claim of Dispossession" (Routledge, 1984/2017), he notes:
A member of the Bushnaq family, Dr Mustafa Bushnaq, a landowner and member of the Arab Executive, sold the land in the Tulkarem area on which nearby Kfar Yona was established...
A member of the Bushnaq family, Dr Mustafa Bushnaq, a landowner and member of the Arab Executive, sold the land in the Tulkarem area on which nearby Kfar Yona was established...
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And here's an article in the Journal of Palestine Studies on “Bushnaqs” — Palestinians whose ancestors hail from the territory of present-day Bosnia-Herzegovina" — that name-checks Inea and Mustafa Bushnaq in the same breath:
palquest.org/sites/default/…
palquest.org/sites/default/…
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(Looks like I could have saved time and effort and just gone to Wikipedia)
