Thread by @mehdirhasan

Lots of Netanyahu defenders upset with me for saying that a prime minister of a state founded on ethnic cleaning, who engages today in a form of ethnic cleansing, is warning others against ethnic cleansing. So here's a quick #thread on some basic facts for the pearl-clutchers:
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https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1182276439086915584

Lots of Israelis who get offended by the term "ethnic cleansing" are fine with it if you replace it with a softer term like "transfer", e.g."Nearly half of Jewish Israelis agree that Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel" - 2016 Pew poll2/timesofisrael.com/plurality-of-j…

Israeli historian Professor Ilan Pappé wrote an entire book called "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" in 2006, on the events of 1948, which was described as an "important" account and a "major intervention" by British and Israeli academics alike:
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethni…

Is Pappé too radical for you? How about Daniel Blatman, professor of Modern Jewish history & Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem? Here is his Haaretz piece headlined: "Yes...Israel Did Perpetrate Ethnic Cleansing in 1948"
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haaretz.com/opinion/.premi…

As for Netanyahu, and current Israeli policy, do you folks read the news? Are you seriously unaware of how many Palestinians have been evicted (is that a nicer word?) from their homes to make way for Israeli occupiers in East Jerusalem and beyond?
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As Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has noted: "Israeli authorities continued their discriminatory policies against East Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents as part of an overall policy designed to cause Palestinians to leave the city."To. Leave.
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btselem.org/planning_and_b…

Here's another stark headline from human rights group B'Tselem: "East Jerusalem cleansing continues: Israel removes more Palestinian families, hands over their homes to settlers"
#ethniccleansing
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