On Friday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted a City Hall-produced video for Nakba Day featuring Inea Bushnaq, whom he called “a Nakba survivor.” The New York Times covered it as fact.

“Bushnaq” is not a Palestinian family name. It is the Arabized form of “Bošnjak,” meaning Bosnian. The surname was adopted in 1924 by descendants of Bosnian Muslim families who emigrated to Ottoman-controlled Palestine after Austria-Hungary occupied Bosnia in 1878. The name they took is a record of where they came from.

Inea Bushnaq was born in Jerusalem in 1948. Her family’s roots in Palestine traced back, at most, 70 years, to settlers from the Balkans who acquired land in Tulkarm and Caesarea and hired Arab laborers to work it.

When the family left in 1948, they did not go to a refugee camp. They went to London. Inea was eventually educated at Cambridge.

A British official in Jerusalem told Time magazine in May 1948: “The whole effendi class has gone. It is remarkable how many of the younger ones are suddenly deciding that this might be a good time to resume their studies at Oxford.” Between 30,000 and 75,000 had already departed before Israel was even declared.

One more detail. The Mamdani video was decorated with a “Visit Palestine” poster presented as Palestinian cultural art. It was created in 1936 by Franz Krausz, an Austrian Jewish refugee from antisemitism who immigrated to Mandatory Palestine. It was commissioned by a Zionist tourism organization.

The “Nakba survivor” is the descendant of Bosnian settlers. The cultural artifact is Zionist. The mayor of New York produced this with city resources, and the Times ran it without a question. That is a press release for a narrative that cannot survive scrutiny.