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What Exactly Was the Nakba? Reading the Named Definitions, the 1949 Counts and the Dispute Over Its Name
Named definitions, the 711,000 to 774,000 refugee counts of 1949, and the dated scholarly dispute over what the term covers.
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What Is the International Legal Basis for the Palestinian Right of Return? Reading the Four Named Instruments, the 1948 Vote and the Court Record
Four instruments carry the right-of-return claim. One is a ratified treaty, and the 1948 resolution passed 35 to 15 with 8 abstentions.
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Is Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Territories Related to Its Opposition to Statehood? Reading the Recorded Votes, the Treaty Text and Each Party’s Own Statements
Israel’s parliament voted 99 to 9 against Palestinian statehood in July 2024. What the recorded votes and the law of occupation each hold.
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How Does Land Titling Advance Israeli Control Over Occupied Territory? Reading the Registration Counts, the Cabinet Decision and the Treaty Text
1.3 million dunums registered since 2016, 24,258 dunams declared state land in 2024, and what a 1907 treaty text says about a land register.
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Are Jews Foreign Occupiers of Israel? Reading the Treaty Definition, the Population Registers and the Founding Instruments
Occupation findings attach to territory, not to a people: what the treaty text, Israel’s registers and the 1922 and 1947 instruments record.
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How Does AIPAC Affect Progressive Democrats? Reading the FEC Filings, the Recorded Votes and the Measured Corpora
The United Democracy Project reported $37,860,200 in 2024-cycle independent expenditures. What the filings and the roll calls record.
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Who Is the Aggressor in the Israel-Palestine Conflict? Reading the Definition, the Deciding Forum and Each Party’s Own Counts
Aggression is a defined legal term with one deciding forum. What the 1974 definition, the recorded votes and each party’s own counts record.
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Did Zionism’s Founders Call Themselves Colonizers? Reading the Texts, the Charters and the Named Dispute
Herzl wrote in 1902 that Zionism was “something colonial.” What the founding texts, charters and scholarship record about the word.
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Did Zionism Come at the Expense of Arab People? Reading the Displacement Counts, the Founding Text and Israel’s Own Statistics
A UN commission estimated 710,000 Palestinians driven out in 1948 to 1949. What the counts, the founding text and the court record hold.
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Who Is Preventing Peace? Reading the Parties’ Own Conditions, the Recorded Votes and the Conflict Datasets
No dataset ranks who blocks peace. What the record holds: each party’s stated conditions, a 2018 Basic Law, a 2021 ruling and four recorded votes.
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What Caused the Displacement of Palestinians in 1948? Reading the Archives, the Directive and the Locality Counts
The 1948 displacement, cause by cause: what the archival typology assigns to military operations, expulsion orders, and fear.
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Why Is the Two-State Solution Failing? Reading the Enacted Texts, the Official Counts and the Named Analyses
Three conditions partition requires, read against Israel’s and the Palestinian Authority’s own published counts, the enacted texts and the recorded votes.
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What Incentives Do Israeli Leaders Lack to Pursue a Two-State Solution? Reading the Joint Survey, the Enacted Text and the Recorded Votes
Israeli Jewish support for a detailed final-status package measured 25% in the September 2024 joint survey. What the rest of the record holds.
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What Is the Zionist Occupation Government (ZOG)? Reading the Definitions, the Measured Corpora and the Public Record
ZOG is an acronym for a claim of hidden Jewish control of government. What the definitions, the measured online corpora and the public record hold.
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Why Is the IDF Called the Israeli Occupation Forces? Reading the Founding Order, Israel’s Own Record and the Measured Corpora
The army was named by order of Israel’s Provisional Government on 26 May 1948. What the legal record, the army’s own code and coded corpora show.
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Is the IDF the World’s Most Moral Army? Reading the Surveys, the Army’s Own Code and Its Own Investigation Counts
In a 2022 JPPI survey, 47% of Israeli Jews called the claim highly accurate. What the surveys, the army’s own code and its own investigation counts record.
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What Evidence Suggests Zionism Is a Settler-Colonial Ideology? Reading the Named Scholarship, the Framework’s Criteria and the Enacted Texts
Four classes of evidence carry the settler-colonial reading of Zionism. What the named literature, the enacted texts and measured discourse record.
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Why Are Israeli Settlements Considered Illegal Under International Law? Reading the Treaty Clause, the Recorded Vote and Israel’s Own Court Record
The illegality finding traces to one sentence of the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention. What the clause says, and where the reading is disputed.
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Were Children in Gaza Shot in Areas Designated as Safe? Reading the Compiled Cases, the Treaty Text and Each Party’s Own Counts
A BBC investigation compiled 168 cases of children shot in Gaza, 95 in the head or chest. What the records establish and what they do not.
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What Are the Moral Arguments for the Palestinian Right of Return? Reading the Named Texts, the Instruments and the Objections
Six moral grounds recur in the named literature on Palestinian return, from corrective justice to peoplehood. What each text actually says.
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What Is the Connection Between the Right of Return and Israeli Apartheid? Reading the Treaty Clause, the 1948 Resolution and Israel’s Own Statutes
One clause of the 1973 Apartheid Convention names the right to return. What the treaty text, Resolution 194 and Israel’s enacted records hold.
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Does Israel Discriminate Against Palestinian Refugees? Reading the Statutes, the Court Record and the Counts Each Body Publishes
Israel’s Law of Return, its 1952 Citizenship Law, the court record on family reunification, and why four published refugee counts differ by millions.
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What Are the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? Reading the Dated Instruments, the Commissioned Reviews and the Official Counts
Historians date the formative period to 1882. What the Balfour text, the Mandate instrument, the 1937 commission and the official counts record.
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Were October 7 Warnings From Israeli Signals Intelligence Ignored? Reading the Probes, the Agency’s Own Account and the Reporting Record
The military’s own probe counted five warning signs on the night of 6 to 7 October. What each account of ignored warnings actually records.
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How Have the October 7 Atrocities Been Justified? Reading the Catalogued Frames, the Party’s Own Text and the Treaty Clauses
Three catalogued denial categories, Hamas’s own January 2024 text, the treaty clauses that answer them, and the monitoring counts that coincided.
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What Was the Background to the October 7 Attacks? Reading the Official Chronology, the Party’s Own Statement and the Assessments Issued
The official chronology, Hamas’s own stated rationale and the published assessments of what preceded the 7 October 2023 attack.
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Who Are the Indigenous People of Israel/Palestine? Reading the Treaty Criteria, the Recorded Vote and the Two Statistical Registers
No treaty body names one. What the 1989 criteria, the 2007 UN vote and the two official statistical registers actually record.
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What Is the Relationship Between the IDF and Israeli Settlers in the West Bank? Reading the Official Records, the Enacted Texts and the Testimony
The State Department’s 2023 report, Israel’s own enacted texts and the 2024 transfer of civil powers, against the figures nobody publishes.
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Does Hamas Account for Deaths Caused by Hamas Itself? Reading the Fields on the Published Lists
What the Gaza Ministry of Health’s fatality records actually contain, what each party counts separately, and what no published list reconciles.
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What Is the Current Situation in the Gaza Strip? Reading the Counts Each Body Publishes
UNICEF, a World Bank, EU and UN damage assessment and Israel’s own agencies each publish a different piece of the Gaza picture. What the dated counts record.
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How Did Early Zionists Interact With Palestinians? Reading the Colony Records, the Founding Texts and the Historians’ Dispute
Colony logbooks, an 1886 clash, a labor ratio and the founding texts: what the dated record holds on early Zionist and Palestinian contact.
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Do Palestinians Have a Continuous Presence in the Land of Palestine? Reading the Censuses, the Official Counts and the Named Scholarship
4,780,978 enumerated in 2017: what the censuses, Israel’s own counts and the named scholarship record about continuity of presence.
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Did Arabs Lose Property by Vacating It in 1948? Reading the Enacted Texts, the Claims Filed and the Valuations on Record
The 1950 absentee statute, the claims filed with the Conciliation Commission, and the valuations on record, each named, dated and labelled by type.
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How Do AIPAC’s Affiliated Networks Influence Congressional Races? Reading the FEC Filings, the Recorded Votes and the Disclosed Travel
Two channels, two sets of filings: what the campaign finance record shows about AIPAC-affiliated money in congressional races, and what it never records.
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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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Is Blocking Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Collective Punishment? Reading the Treaty Text, the Determinations Issued and Each Party’s Own Counts
Four named bodies apply the term and no tribunal has entered the finding. What Article 33, the relief-passage rules and each party’s counts record.
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Has Zionism Resulted in Palestinian Dispossession and Occupation? Reading the Archives, the Enacted Texts and the Recorded Votes
Roughly 700,000 Palestinians were displaced in 1947 to 1949, per Morris’s archival history. What the archives, statutes and recorded votes hold.
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Who Owned the Land of Palestine, and How Did It Change Hands? Reading the Registers, the Purchase Figures and the 1948 Instruments
Published shares of Jewish landholding at the end of the Mandate run from 2.1% to 7.6%. Reading the registers, the purchases and the 1948 instruments.
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Which Humanitarian Organizations Have Documented Israeli War Crimes? Reading the Published Findings and the Accountability Counts
Four NGOs and two UN mandate bodies carry the war-crimes findings on Gaza; Israel’s own prosecutors report 74 investigations from 1,000+ referrals.
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What Evidence Is There of Israel Committing War Crimes? Reading the Findings Issued, the Party Counts and the Court Record
Israel’s military prosecutors report 74 criminal investigations; the wider war-crimes record is incident-level, dated and largely unadjudicated.
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Is Torture of Palestinian Prisoners a War Crime? Reading the Treaty Text, the Determinations Issued and Israel’s Own Investigation Counts
Geneva Convention IV names torture of protected persons a grave breach. What the treaty text, Israel’s court rulings and its own counts record.
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Are Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property Systematic? Reading the Findings Issued, the Treaty Standard and Israel’s Own Investigation Counts
Four named bodies have issued findings of systematic attacks since 2023. What the treaty standard requires, and what Israel’s own investigation counts record.
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Is There a Policy of Starvation in Gaza? Reading the Treaty Standard, the Determinations Issued and Each Party’s Own Counts
No court has ruled on starvation as a method of war in Gaza. What the treaty text, the famine classification and Israel’s own aid counts record.
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Is Israel Carrying Out a Deliberate Campaign of Starvation in Gaza? Reading the Determinations, the Treaty Standard and Each Party’s Own Counts
Four bodies issued deliberate-starvation determinations from 2023 to 2025; the judicial record reaches only reasonable grounds. What each figure measures.
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Is Israel Using Starvation as a Weapon Against Children in Gaza? Reading the Determinations Issued, the Treaty Standard and Each Party’s Own Counts
Named determinations, WHO screening figures, the Rome Statute’s intent standard and each party’s own published counts on child hunger in Gaza.
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How Does the Occupation Since 1967 Feed Apartheid Allegations? Reading the Treaty Texts, the Court Record and Israel’s Own Statistics
Israel has held the West Bank and East Jerusalem since June 1967. What the treaty texts, court records and official statistics document.
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How Do West Bank Settlements Figure in Apartheid Allegations? Reading the Treaty Clause, the Dated Determinations and Israel’s Own Statistics
Which settlement policies the apartheid determinations name, why the settler counts differ, and what Israel’s own statistics and the treaty texts record.
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Does the Blockade Exacerbate the Gaza Genocide? Reading the Deprivation Figures, the Convention Text and Each Party’s Own Counts
Deprivation figures, the 1948 Convention text, court orders and each party’s own aid counts on whether restrictions worsened conditions in Gaza.
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What Is the Impact of Israeli Military Raids on Palestinian Civilians? Reading the Counts Each Party Publishes
The Gaza Ministry of Health counted 274 killed in one 2024 raid; Israel’s military reports 74 investigations opened. What each record measures.
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What Are the Characteristics of the System Described as “Israeli Apartheid”? Reading the Named Enumerations, the Treaty Text and the Official Counts
Two documents enumerate four and five characteristics. What the treaty definition, the census counts and Israel’s own statistics record about each.
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Why Is Israel Seen as the Aggressor? Reading the Polls, the Party Counts and the Framing Studies
Gallup’s sympathies reading fell from 63% in 2010 to 46% in 2025. Which reasons offered for the shift carry a dated measurement, and which do not.
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Which Historical Incidents Are Cited as Israeli War Crimes? Reading the Compilations, the Court Records and the Commissions of Inquiry
Eight incidents recur across the published compilations, from April 1948 to October 2023. One produced a criminal conviction in an Israeli court.
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Which Historical Events Are Cited in Genocide Allegations Against Israel? Reading the Recorded Vote, the Archives and Each Party’s Own Counts
Six events recur in the allegations. What the 1982 recorded vote, the 1948 archives and each party’s own published counts state, dated.
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What Is the Connection Between the Genocide Convention and the Situation in Gaza? Reading the Treaty Text, the Procedural Record and Each Party’s Own Counts
The 1948 Genocide Convention supplies the definition, the duty and the clause behind the Gaza case. What the record holds, article by article, dated.
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What Is the Evidence Behind the Genocide Allegations in Gaza? Reading the Convention Text, the Standards Applied and Each Party’s Own Counts
Four bodies published genocide findings on Gaza between 2024 and 2025. What each documented, which standard it applied, and what Israel published.
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Does the Gaza Death Toll Establish Genocide? Reading the Convention Text, the Counts and the Court Record
The Genocide Convention sets no threshold count. What the recorded tolls, the peer-reviewed survey estimate and the court record show.
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Is the Gaza Blockade a Violation of Human Dignity? Reading the Assessments Issued, the Legal Standards and Each Party’s Own Counts
The dignity phrasing traces to one 2008 humanitarian assessment. What the published characterizations, the treaty text and each party’s counts hold.
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Has Israel Continued to Use Starvation as a Weapon of War in Gaza? Reading the Determinations Issued and Each Party’s Own Counts
Five dated determinations from 2023 to 2025, the standard each one applied, and the counts Israel and Gaza health officials each publish.
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Is Israel a Colonizer or an Expansionist Power? Reading the Territorial Record, the Statutes and the Counts
Israel’s West Bank settler count reached 503,732 in 2024; the Sinai was returned by treaty in 1982. What the statutes, votes and counts record.
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What Does “Colonial Violence” Name in the Zionism Debate? Reading the Definitions, the Treaty Texts and the Counts
The phrase names four practices. No treaty defines it as an offence. Reading the published definitions, Israel’s enacted texts and the counts.
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Does Israel Intentionally Target Civilian Infrastructure? Reading the Determinations, the Satellite Data and Israel’s Own Investigation Counts
No court has ruled on a single strike. What UN determinations, satellite analysis and Israel’s own investigation counts each record, and what each measures.
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Does Israel Practice Apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories? Reading the Treaty Text, the Dated Determinations and the Court Record
Four determinations apply the term between 2021 and 2022, none of them judicial. What the treaty text, the court record and the coded comments hold.
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Does Israel Create a Double Exclusion of Palestinians? Reading the Statuses the Official Records Keep Apart
Four Palestinian population statuses appear in the official records, each counted by a different body. What each one measures, and where the evidence thins.
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Does the Gaza Conflict Encompass Mass Killings and Deliberate Starvation? What Each Body Counted
A Lancet Global Health survey estimated 75,200 violent deaths in Gaza to January 2025; the health ministry has recorded 460 malnutrition deaths.
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Is Israel Carrying Out a Genocide in Gaza? Reading the Convention Text, the Findings Issued and the Counts Each Party Publishes
The 1948 Convention sets two elements, a UN commission found four of five acts in 2025, and no court has ruled on the merits.
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What Pattern of Conduct Indicates Genocidal Intent in Gaza? Reading the Convention Text, the Findings and Israel’s Own Counts
The 1948 Genocide Convention lists five acts. Which bodies say the Gaza pattern meets that standard, and what Israel’s own records count.
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Is Israel an Ethnostate Formed Through Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing? Reading the Statutes, the Counts and the Scholarship
Israel’s own count records 2.13 million Arab citizens and residents. What the statutes, the 1949 refugee record and the scholarship hold.
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Is Israel Carrying Out Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza? Reading the Standard, the Findings Issued and the Counts Each Party Publishes
No court has ruled. What the issued findings say, what the legal standard requires, and what the official population and military counts record.
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Is Israel Deliberately Targeting Palestinian Civilians? Reading the Findings Issued, the Directives and Israel’s Own Investigation Counts
Named bodies allege direct attacks on civilians. Israel’s military advocate reports 74 criminal investigations from over 1,000 referred incidents.
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What Evidence Supports the Claim That Israel’s Rule Amounts to Apartheid? Reading the Treaty Text, the Published Determinations and the Official Statistics
Four determinations published between January 2021 and March 2022 carry the finding. What the treaty text requires, and what the records hold.
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Is Israel Committing War Crimes in Gaza? What the Legal Record and the Published Counts Hold
No court has entered a verdict. What the warrants, the treaty standards, the named findings and the parties’ own counts record.
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Did Israel Expel Palestinians From Their Land? Reading the Archives, the Founding Text and the 1948 Votes
Roughly 700,000 Palestinians were displaced in 1948. What the archives, Israel’s founding declaration and the recorded UN votes document.
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Have Israeli Heavy Bombs Wiped Out Entire Families and Neighborhoods?
Multigenerational families killed in single strikes are counted and dated in the record; neighborhood-level erasure is described rather than counted.
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Was the Gaza Campaign Unrestrained Against an Undefended Population? Reading the Counts Each Party Publishes
Israel’s own 2014 classification, an internal military database, a Lancet household survey and the Gaza health ministry tally, set side by side.
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What Will Happen to Civilians in Gaza? Reading the Counts Each Body Publishes
Gaza’s health ministry recorded 236,505 dead and injured by October 2025. What each count measures, and what each party publishes.
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Does Amnesty International Describe Israel’s Actions as Genocide and Apartheid? Reading the Published Documents and the Record Around Them
Two dated documents, one internal rejection, a named legal disagreement over intent, and the counts each party publishes.
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Do AIPAC-Backed Members of Congress Vote Differently on Israel Aid?
Recorded votes, FEC filings and ethics disclosures on AIPAC funding and how Congress votes on Israel security assistance.
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Why Does US Media Undercount the Gaza Death Toll? What the Published Counts Actually Measure
US coverage carries one direct-death registry. Named bodies challenge it in both directions: 41% underreporting in The Lancet, and a 41,000 civilian ceiling.
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What Methods Do Settlers Use to Displace Palestinians? Reading the Documentation, the Reviews and the Court Record
Three method groupings recur across the documented record, alongside Israel’s own 2005 commissioned review and two High Court evacuation rulings.
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Does Prior Presence Justify Forced Removal? Reading the Conventions, the Archives and the 1947 Vote
Three instruments, two archive-based histories and one recorded vote: what the texts and counts behind the 1948 displacement actually say.
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How Much Palestinian Land Has Israel Taken? Reading the Declarations, the Statutes and the Court Record
Published totals run from about 1 million to more than 17 million dunams. What each figure counts, and which body measured it.
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What Do the Official Records Show About How Densely Israelis and Palestinians Live?
Two statistical agencies count two populations on one small territory: 878 persons per km² in 2021, 5,853 in Gaza, 10.148 million in Israel.
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Why Do Members of Congress Support Pro-Israel Policies When Public Opinion Has Shifted?
The House passed the last standalone Israel bill 366 to 58, while 60% of Americans viewed Israel unfavorably. A 2016 agreement sets the dollar level.
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What Does the Documentary Record Show About Civilian Harm in Gaza?
Israel’s Foreign Ministry states two war objectives and names no third. The rest of the record is counts, nearly all published by a party to the events.
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We Read the 36 Most-Watched Israel-Gaza Explainers. How Do They Frame the Conflict?
A first-party study of the language in the 36 most-watched Israel-Gaza explainer videos: contested-claim verdicts, who is named the actor, and the words used for each side.
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How Gaza-War Headlines Name the Agent of Violence
A corpus study of 1,976 Gaza-war headlines: only 19% depict a violent act, and when one names an actor it is Israel 80% of the time and no one 23%.
Trend Analysis
Does Antisemitism Rise After Conflict?
Antisemitic expression rises alongside conflict, not necessarily from it: the October 7 spike hit within minutes, with parallel rises around earlier flashpoints.