The Israeli state was founded in mass ethnic cleansing.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 10, 2026
Sources support that roughly 750,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled during the 1948 war and that leading historians such as Benny Morris describe those expulsions as ethnic cleansing tied to the state's founding.
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… Or common sense. You know, and finally, um. Jeffrey didn't. Emphasize this as strongly. As. Eichmann's counsel did, but. Jeffrey said, Do we really want to start talking about where the ex-estate doctrine ends and where liability for homicide begins? When. You know, the Israeli state was founded quite literally in mass ethnic cleansing and. The u.s. Department of Justice. Has proffered the equivalent of an amicus curiae. On behalf of. The Jerusalem court. With respect to their prosecution of Eichmann, when... …
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Contradicts. Israel's Foreign Ministry has rejected similar characterizations of its history as distortions designed to demonize Israel, showing the label is disputed by the state itself rather than settled.[1]
Supports. Benny Morris, a leading historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict, argues the Zionist project could only be realized by deliberate ethnic cleansing and describes the ethnic cleansings on which Israel was founded.[3]
Supports. Sources report about 750,000 Palestinians expelled or displaced in 1948, roughly 80 percent of the Arab population of the lands Israel seized, with many others forced to leave and hundreds of towns and villages depopulated.[4][5][6]
Supports. A historical overview describes the mass expulsion and killings of Arab civilians by Jewish forces during the 1948 war as widely discussed by Israeli politicians, intellectuals and journalists in later decades.[7]
Context. A 2018 article notes that the ethnic cleansing characterization of 1948 remains highly controversial and that there is no accepted international legal definition of ethnic cleansing.[6]
Context. The HRW finding of ethnic cleansing concerns 2025 West Bank expulsions, not the 1948 founding, so it does not directly address the claim's historical scope.[2]
Sources
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- 1Israel calls on Amnesty not to release apartheid reportapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes in West Bank expulsionsreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Benny Morris, On Ethnic Cleansing, NLR 26, March–April 2004newleftreview.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Israel Is Accelerating Plans to Annex Neighboring Lands - Yahooyahoo.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5History Lesson - Jewish Currentsjewishcurrents.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Israel's 70-year history of ethnic cleansing - International Viewpointinternationalviewpoint.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 7Hidden in Plain Sight | Zeithistorische Forschungenzeithistorische-forschungen.de · not rated · cited for: supports
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