Ethnic Cleansing

This essay furthers the debate on the Palestinian case as it relates to Genocide Studies, questioning the lack of substantive discussion of this case to date in traditional Genocide Studies fora. It reemphasises the importance of the settler-colonial dimension to Zionist settlement in Palestine, which, it argues, has so far not been explored sufficiently. The paper suggests that the ‘Nakba’ of 1948, which was based on appropriation of the land of Palestine without its people, comprising massacres, physical destruction of villages, appropriation of land, property and culture, can be seen as an ongoing process and not merely a historical event.

This article examines the situation of the Palestinians through the sociological lens of the concept of genocide. Following a recent trend in genocide studies, the article engages with the original theorising of Raphael Lemkin – who coined the term ‘genocide’. These studies have highlighted the association Lemkin made between genocide and colonialism and have applied the genocide concept to settler colonial societies such as Australia. It argues that if Israel is conceivably a settler colonial project then by implication its relationship with the Palestinian people can be analysed through the genocide lens. Whilst some academics and journalists are now tentatively applying terms such as ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide’ to describe the events surrounding the creation of the Israeli state, the historical and continuing, cultural and physical, destructive social and political relations involved in the Israel/Palestine conflict is a somewhat neglected potential case study in the field of genocide studies. The objective of this article is to highlight the potential for a Lemkin inspired sociology of genocide in analysing aspects of the Israel/Palestine conflict, through a consideration of the link he made between genocide and colonialism and some of his key ‘techniques of genocide’ as specified in the seminal text Axis Rule in Occupied Europe.

"During the Last Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times the Kingdom of Valencia -in the Crown of Aragon- lived bloody persecutions against the Jews (1391) and the complete expulsion of Jews (1492) and Muslims (1609). In the last decades of the 20th century, and now, the Land of Valencia becomes the "scenario" of an Anti-catalanist xenophobia...

WITH A PDF OF PRESS ARTICLES (in Spanish language) OF PACO CERDÀ, VÍCTOR ROMERO, ETC.
(www.levante-emv.com)

http://www.levante-emv.com/valencia/2011/12/18/brutal-oficio-inquisicion/865945.html

http://www.levante-emv.com/comunitat-valenciana/2014/02/21/calvario-valenciano-judios/1082584.html
Acoso y expulsión medieval

http://www.levante-emv.com/valencia/2013/10/16/nobles-acataron-expulsion-moriscos-rentables/1041899.html

http://www.levante-emv.com/mercantil-valenciano/2013/05/13/cuentas-moriscos/997534.html

http://www.levante-emv.com/comunitat-valenciana/2014/02/19/moriscos-reclaman-derecho-nacionalidad-espanola/1081375.html?utm_medium=rss

http://www.levante-emv.com/comunitat-valenciana/2011/05/08/invisible-blaverismo/805087.html
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From the Germans of Danzig (now Gdansk, in Poland) to the Turks of Rhodes: the «Europa etnografica» map (1:6.000.000) of the Atlante internazionale del TCI (1st ed., 1927). For a later version of this map (3rd ed., 1929) you can see www.davidrumsey.com