| Comment | Immediately the video has no credibility. Israel did carry out ethnic cleansing when it forced 700,000 Palestinians to leave their homes in 1948. None were allowed to return, and most of their homes and villages were destroyed to prevent them from doing so.
A United Nations Commission of Experts mandated to look into violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia defined ethnic cleansing in its interim report S/25274 as "… rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from the area." By this and any definition of the term, Israel carried out ethnic cleansing on the Palestinian people and continues to do so to this day.
I have a lot of sympathy for the Jewish people for what has happened to them historically. I do however believe that zionism is settler colonialism. Making other innocent people pay the price by taking everything from them is wrong and it lies at the root of this conflict.
[I suppose you think this Holocaust historian is talking through his ass too?](https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1713984982702555335?s=19) |
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