Zionist colonization of Palestine combined demographic cleansing, village destruction, and structural genocide

Evidence

The Israeli case thus captures the entire range of options usually pursued by colonialism and the modern colonial state: Massive demographic cleansing of the Palestinian land within the Green Line (1948); an equivalent cleansing of the West Bank in and after 1967; total decimation of Palestinian infrastructure, institutions, cultural traditions, and more than four hundred villages, and their replacement with exclusively Zionist entities (namely, through the method of “demolish-and-replace”); killing en masse, coupled with an effective method of assassination of individuals; dozens of discriminatory laws against the state’s own Arab citizens, including the no-right of return; highly destructive military campaigns against the Gaza Strip; and a structural genocide, in progress, against its Arab citizens of 1948. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 437

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Palestinians perceived Zionism as settler-colonial displacement from its outset — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 446; Zionism’s settlement of Palestine structurally required demographic and cultural replacement of natives. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 466; Zionism’s negation of exile caused the Palestinian exile and denial of homeland — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 376