On a cold Wednesday afternoon, 10 March 1948, a group of eleven men, veteran Zionist leaders together with young military Jewish officers, put the final touches to a plan for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. That same evening, military orders were dispatched to the units on the ground to prepare for the systematic expulsion of the Palestinians from vast areas of the country … When it was ...
The truth is that facts don’t matter to “Palestine scholars” because facts don’t have to matter. The entire premise of Palestinian studies is to prove that Israel is an Apartheid state, guilty of ethnic cleansing and committed to “the erasure of Palestinianism,” as Khalidi put it. Any real historian, political scientist, or thinking person who knows the record knows different. If ...
Anti-Zionists cite the phrase as a perfect encapsulation of the fundamental injustice of Zionism: that early Zionists believed Palestine was uninhabited, [1] that they denied—and continue to reject—the existence of a distinct Palestinian culture, [2] and even as evidence that Zionists always planned on an ethnic cleansing of the Arab ...
The Real News Network: It’s not ‘complicated’: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine is fueled by ‘colonial racism’
It’s not ‘complicated’: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine is fueled by ‘colonial racism’
World Socialist Web Site: White House signals new phase in ethnic cleansing of Palestine
World Socialist Web Site: The attack on Gaza City and the imperialist logic behind the ethnic cleansing of Palestine
The attack on Gaza City and the imperialist logic behind the ethnic cleansing of Palestine
saudigazette: Labour MPs urge UK to recognize Palestine, warn of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza