Ethnic cleansing
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Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal such as deportation or population transfer, it also includes indirect methods aimed at forced migration by coercing the victim group to flee and preventing its return, such as murder, rape, and property destruction.
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Textbook definition
On 6 November 2024, Jeremy Corbyn posted on X:
This is the textbook definition of ethnic cleansing.[2]
- Palestinians will not be allowed to return to homes in northern Gaza, says IDF
- Brigadier General Itzik Cohen said in a briefing that aid would only be allowed to enter south of the Gaza Strip, not the north.[3]
Ethnic cleansing is the plan
Jill Stein added:
- Israel says it won’t allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza. It’s been clear from the start that the plan is ethnic cleansing and land theft.
- We demand @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris cut off weapons and support to Israel to stop this genocide NOW![4]
Downplaying genocidal acts
On 26 October 2024, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention posted on X:
- Words matter: "Ethnic cleansing" is a term first used by perpetrators to downplay genocidal acts, and it’s not recognised as a crime in international law.
- Using this language can obscure atrocities that often meet the threshold for genocide or crimes against humanity. Instead, let’s call these acts by their rightful names – forced displacement, murder, rape – and confront the gravity of these crimes.
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| "The Holocaust" | In its capitalized form "The Holocaust" refers in the Western world to the treatment of the Jewish populations of Germany and German occupied territories during WW2 (1939-45). Its use in this format stems from about the mid-1960's (i.e. more than 20 years after the events it claims to define). It does not appear in histories or documents before that time. |
| Israel/Judaization of Jerusalem | Slow-motion but determined ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem |
| Nakba Day | Palestinian commemoration of the 1948 ethnic cleansing |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:A year late, the Guardian finally permits us to use the term 'genocide' | blog post | 8 November 2024 | Jonathan Cook | In running an opinion piece that suggests it may now be acceptable to use the term genocide about Gaza, The Guardian has admitted it has been, even according to Omer Bartov – its own resident genocide expert – complicit in obscuring that genocide for a half a year. |
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References
- ↑ "This framing is absurd, call it what it is and stop whitewashing Israel’s crimes"
- ↑ "This is the textbook definition of ethnic cleansing"
- ↑ "Palestinians will not be allowed to return to homes in northern Gaza, says IDF"
- ↑ "It’s been clear from the start that the plan is ethnic cleansing and land theft"
- ↑ "Refrain from using the term 'ethnic cleansing'"
