Israeli Historians: Palestine Was Ethnically Cleansed

In the 1980s, Israel's "New Historians" began to re-examine their country's foundations, including the widespread belief that Palestinians were ethnically cleansed to make way for a Jewish minority. Among these are Benny Morris, Tom Segev, and Oxford's Avi Shlaim, who both argue that the Nakba was engineered. In this brief video, Alex Sheremet deals with the question of Israel's founding and compares it to other well-known expulsion events.

Clipped from The Roots of the Israel / Palestine Conflict: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3c33vi-poI

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