The Zionist leadership believed for 2 decades, from the early 1930s to the late 1940s, there was nothing morally wrong with forcibly uprooting Palestinians from their homes

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Zachary Foster

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One of the key turning points in my own intellectual trajectory from Zionist --> anti-Zionist was reading Nur Masalha's "Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948." The conclusion of the book is that every important Zionist leader in the 1930s & 1940s supported "transfer," today known as forcible displacement or ethnic cleansing. To quote David Ben-Gurion in October 1936, "there is nothing morally wrong in the idea." (p.53) Only 2 out of 21-members dissented. 90% of Zionist leaders on the Jewish Agency Executive agreed ethnic cleansing was moral. The Zionist leadership believed for 2 decades, from the early 1930s to the late 1940s, there was nothing morally wrong with forcibly uprooting Palestinians from their homes and expelling them to Jordan or Iraq. I don't know how you can read Masalha's book and not walking away with the conclusion that the Zionist movement was super evil. https://archive.org/details/expulsionofpales00masa

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