 Israel has ordered the word Nakba, meaning "disaster" or "catastrophe" and which refers to the foundation of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent forced flight of the Palestinians from Israel-captured land, to be removed from Israeli Arab textbooks.The term was introduced in books for use in Arab schools in 2007 when the Education Ministry was run by Yuli Tamir of the Labour party.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu justified the ban by saying that the term was "propaganda against Israel."