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Oct 25, 2023 • 16 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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A brief history of Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, 1890-present.

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Yesterday, on October 24, 2023, Israel's plans to expel Gaza's Palestinian population to Sinai, Egypt were leaked.

Not surprisingly, this plan has a decades long history and dates to at least 2004, if not earlier.

source: . madamasr.com/en/2023/10/25/…Image
Between Oct 7, 2023-present, Israel has displaced ~1.4 million Palestinians in Gaza through its campaign of indiscriminate bombing.

source: .reliefweb.int/report/occupie…
In May 2023, 178 Palestinian Bedouins were forced out of Ein Samiya (West Bank) after Israel repeatedly demolished their homes, threatened to destroy their only school & after their grazing land was taken by settlement expansion & b/c of settler violence: ochaopt.org/content/ras-al…Image
In July 2022, the 100-person community in Ras a-Tin (WB) was pushed after a Jewish settler outpost was established 2km away. Since then, members of the Palestinian community have suffered from verbal abuse, harassment, theft & vandalism of property. btselem.org/settler_violen…Image
Between Aug 2022- August 2023, the 88-person community in al-Qabun was pushed out by Israeli Jewish settler violence & assaults by the Israeli army
apnews.com/article/israel…Image
In July 2020, Israel made 70 Palestinians homeless in Khirbet Humsa for the 6th time. Israeli forces loaded the residents' personal belongings and dropped them off 7 miles away.
972mag.com/west-bank-demo…Image
In 2019, 2 groups of Palestinian families near the Taybeh junction were pushed out: Image
Between June 1967 - 2016, Israel revoked the residency status--and thus the right to live in Jerusalem (or anywhere else in Israel) -- of at least 14,595 Palestinians from East Jerusalem in what amounts to "forcible transfers," according to @hrw. source: hrw.org/news/2017/08/0…Image
Between 1968 -1971, Israel expelled 615 Gazan residents.

Between, 1971-1988, Israel expelled another 90 Palestinains from Gaza.

Source: Sara Roy, The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development, p.110 Image
In 1967, Israel expelled 250K-325K Palestinians, including from Imwas, Yalo, Bayt Nuba, Surit, Beit Awwa, Beit Mirsem, Shuyukh, Jiftlik, Agarith & Huseirat.
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In 1948, Zionist forces expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes.

They also refused to allow ~750,000 Palestinians who were made refugees during the war back to their homes.

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B/w 1891-1948, most Zionist leaders, inc. Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha'am, Israel Zangwill, Arthur Rupin, M. Smilansky, L. Motzkin, Yoseph Weitz, Chaim Weizmann, M. Usshishkin, D. Ben Gurion, Moshe Shertok, thought it would be required to expel the Palestinians:
Here are some additional screenshots if the statements of Zionist leaders from 1890-1948.

And you wonder why so many people think Zionism was such a problematic, dare I say, racist idea? Image
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This is the kind of stuff I write about in my newsletter, about all things Palestine, which you can subscribe to here:

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This ethnic cleansing is continuing in real time in the West Bank:

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Aug 11
Israel’s exploitation of Jews as demographic hostages, a brief history 🧵
Zionist & Israeli leaders have a long history of going against the interests of Jews themselves, of weaponizing Jews & exploiting their J-positive blood to engineer a Jewish demographic majority in Palestine.
This began after WWII when 35,000 Jews in Palestine applied for repatriation home, to Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany & Poland. Zionist leaders instigated foreign consular officials to block their exit visas. palestinenexus.com/articles/zioni…Image
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The last major case of intentional starvation in Palestine was during World War I. lessons from history. ⤵️
~11-16% of the population of what is today Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon died during the war, mostly from famine or famine related diseases. About 500,000 people.

During the war, the British, Russian & French navies blockaded the Eastern Mediterranean coast for a prolonged period of time, from December 1914 until 1918.

The blockade led to economic collapse in Palestine and elsewhere in the region. Tens of thousands of people lost their means of livelihood as a result.

The blockade led a shortage of critical goods, such as petroleum, essential to cook food and heat homes. In Palestine, the price of petroleum skyrocketed to five or six times its prewar price by April 1915, just six months into the war.
But Palestine is fertile and can produce its own food. Here, the problem was:

1) A massive locust attack in 1915 destroyed a lot of food.

2) the Ottoman government requisitioned the animals & took over the railways for military use.

Thus, it became prohibitively expensive to ship food via donkeys, camels or railways. The Ottoman State sabotaged the food delivery system.
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Jul 10
Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians was not a historical event or two or three that happened in 1948, 1967 or 2023. It's an ongoing process, a structure, that began in the late 19th century and has been ongoing to the present day. ⤵️
Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, Oct. 7, 2023 - the present: palestinenexus.com/articles/ethni…Image
Israel's Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians, 1968-1993: palestinenexus.com/articles/israe…Image
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Some of @PeterBeinart's best clips on the relationship between Zionism & the Jewish tradition. Trigger warning if you are a Zionist. A 🧵
How political Zionism is inherently oppressive:
How the institutional American Jewish life can no longer be considered Jewish:
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A brief history of Israeli leaders saying Iran = Nazis 🧵.
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economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internati…
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A brief history of Israeli Jewish support for mass murder in the Gaza Strip. A 🧵
In March 2025, a poll revealed Israeli Jewish society's support for genocide:

→ 82% support the forced expulsion of residents of Gaza
→ 47% believe the Israeli army should “act like the biblical Israelites under Joshua in Jericho—killing all inhabitants of a conquered city"
haaretz.co.il/magazine/2025-…
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