Status Updates From The Ethnic Cleansing of Pal...

After 2003 law passed that would punish interracial marriage with deportation, appeals failed.

“[This] revealed once again how [Israel] prefers to uphold Zionism rather than justice. Israelis enjoy telling Palestinians how they should be happy to live in the ‘only democracy’ in the region and have a right to vote, but no one is under any illusion that this voting comes with any actual political influence.”

“In 2006, Israel’s boarder police seized Jaljulya. The troops burst into homes at 2am and dragged thirty-six women out into the street, deporting them immediately. Many were pregnant and had children…The soldiers were demonstrating to the Israeli public that when the presence of the Palestinian [reproductive] population [presents a] ‘demographic danger’, the Jewish state will act…without mercy.”

Arnon Soffer, Professor of Geography at Haifa Uni, in the Jerusalem Post, 10 May 2004:

“So, if we want to remain alive, we have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day… if we don’t kill, we cease to exist.”

Back to Pappe - it’s taking me so long because it’s obviously a very upsetting read. I’m past the Nakba and onto cultural genocide -

On the renaming of villages and religious sites in the memoricide of the Nakba: Pappe shows that the naming was often historically inaccurate - but this didn’t matter, as “of course, the motive for Hebraizing the names of evicted villages was ideological, not scholarly.”