LF: You’re right. We shouldn’t use words that have meaning when discussing an issue. After all, the word “Nidche” appears in the Torah to refer to a day that falls out… Oh wait. It’s a word that means something. Are we not allowed to use words anymore that appear in Torah sources for non-Torah purposes? You’re being silly and offensive.
Oh, and for your information, the words “Nidche” and “Mukdam” referring to days in Halachic literature never refer to Yomim Tovim. They refer to days instituted by Chazal for (mostly) fasting. Some people do hold they are following Chazal’s same guidelines in giving Shevach V’hoda’ah to HKBH on Yom Ha’atzma’ut.
Even the vast majority of ardent Chareidim in Eretz Yisrael have enough sensitivity to not call it Yom Ha’atzamos. It is a gross insult to the Kedoshim who died Al Kiddush Hashem giving their lives so that we could all have somewhere safe to be free as Jews. I’m quite disappointed that the mods let that through. If you don’t want to call is Yom Ha’atzma’ut, that’s fine. I have heard some anti-Zionists in America who just call it Israeli Independence Day because they refuse to make it sound like a Jewish holiday. That’s fine (even if I disagree with that opinion). What you said was well out of line.