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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Never Ended (jacobin.com)

submitted 5 months ago by solo@kbin.earth to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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Israel was founded with the Nakba, a series of atrocities that ethnically cleansed Palestinians from their homeland. Today we are witnessing Israel engage in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza on an even larger, more violent scale.

The Second Nakba

While Palestinians have always feared the prospect of a second Nakba, which several Israeli officials have threatened over the years, most never imagined that it would unfold before their eyes in broad daylight, believing that ethnic cleansing belonged in the past century.

They were wrong. For eight months since last October, Israel has massacred and displaced more than three times as many Palestinians in Gaza as it did in all of Palestine during the Nakba. [...]

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[-] solo@kbin.earth 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Left bias yes, but even Media Bias Fact Check the score they give for Jacobin is high:

Factual Reporting: HIGH MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

[Edit - In relation to this article's historical content here is another source:

Jewish Voice for Peace - Nakba Fact Sheet

Jewish Voice for Peace - Our Approach to Zionism]

[-] timewarp@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

People are just flat out scared of being called antisemitic even when they know about the genocide taking place. Israel has a large psychological warfare team dedicated to manipulating social media. This includes trying to associate negative attitudes about Israel into antisemitism.

[-] solo@kbin.earth 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes, there is this effort to equate anti-zionism with anti-semitism. Thankfully there have been Jewish people against zionism, since its inception. Btw Meet The ‘Wrong Jew’ The Media Doesn’t Want You To Know Exists, and they say

"Not in our name!"