How Have the Israeli and Palestinian Populations Grown, and Why Are the Numbers Disputed?
Israel grew from 2 million to over 10 million; the West Bank and Gaza from 2 million to 5.4 million. The growth, and why the counts behind it are disputed.
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Who can get Israeli citizenship?
Israel’s Law of Return gives Jews a direct route and extends it to five classes of non-Jewish relatives. The statutes, counts and court record.
Is Israel an ethnostate?
Israel’s 2018 Basic Law reserves self-determination to Jews. The statutes, the ethnic-democracy typology and the official counts, read in full.
What happened to Palestinian refugees’ property?
Israel voted against resolution 3236 in 1974, 89 to 8. Its entry statutes, the 1950 absentee laws and the land record show what followed.
Did Herzl imagine a Jewish supremacist state?
Israel’s 1948 Declaration credits Herzl with convening the 1897 congress; a clause making self-determination exclusive to Jews was enacted in 2018.
Israel & Anti-Zionism
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Zionism and the white-supremacy comparison, explained
A 1975 UN vote classed Zionism as racism and was revoked in 1991. Israel’s statutes, birth counts, typologies and surveys, read against the claim.
Did antisemitism give rise to Zionism?
How Israel uses military orders to seize land
How Israeli intelligence missed the October 7 plans
How Gaza’s war tolls held up over four wars
Who has accused Israel of genocide?
The 1858 Ottoman law still deciding West Bank land
Can indigeneity ground a Palestinian land claim?
How the IDF weighs civilian casualties
Does the Gaza Ceasefire Plan Offer a Path to Palestinian Statehood? Reading Point 19, the Council Vote and Each Party’s Own Words
How Is Jewish Identity Tied to the Land of Israel? Reading the Founding Texts, the Dissenting Platforms, the Statutes and the Population Record
Is the Destruction of Cultural Heritage by Israel a War Crime? Reading the Treaty Elements, the Verified Site Inventory and the Prosecution Record
We Read Four of the Gaza Health Ministry’s Own Fatality Lists. What Do They Record About Women and Children?
Why Is the IDF Called the Israeli Occupation Forces? Reading the Founding Order, Israel’s Own Record and the Measured Corpora
Narratives & Tropes
View allIs AIPAC a grassroots group?
AIPAC calls itself grassroots on its 2025 Form 990. The same return reports no dues revenue and 42 volunteers; FEC filings show how its money arrives.
Does AIPAC Influence Media Coverage of Israel? What the Filings and the Coverage Counts Record
Campaign-finance filings, congressional travel disclosures, published coverage tallies and survey trends, and what each one actually records.
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