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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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32 results for “Mandate For Palestine”
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Do Israeli Politicians Undermine the Legitimacy of Palestinian Representatives? Reading the Enacted Texts, the Recorded Votes and the Court Record
Israel’s Knesset can unseat a member by 90 of 120 votes and rejected Palestinian statehood 68 to 9. What the enacted record and the courts show.
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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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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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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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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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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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Does Israel’s Nation-State Law Enshrine Jewish Supremacy Over Palestinian Citizens? Reading the Enacted Text, the Vote and the Court Record
The 2018 Basic Law’s Article 1(c) makes national self-determination exclusive to the Jewish People. What the text, the vote and the ruling record.
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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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Did Herzl and Jabotinsky Describe Zionism in Colonial Terms? Reading the Founding Texts, the Charters and the Recorded Votes
Herzl’s 1896 pamphlet, his 1902 letter to Rhodes and Jabotinsky’s 1923 essay, read with the charters, the sovereigns approached and the 1903 vote.
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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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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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Is Denying Palestinian Identity Part of an Apartheid System? Reading the Treaty Text, the Dated Determinations and Israel’s Own Records
The 1973 Apartheid Convention names the right to a nationality once. What the treaty text, the dated determinations and Israel’s own records hold.
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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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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 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 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’s Rule Meet the Apartheid Definition Under International Law? Reading the Three Treaty Texts, the Ratifications and the Court Record
Three treaties define apartheid differently. What each requires, which ones Israel has ratified, and what the one judicial instrument on record held.
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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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Why Is Israel’s Treatment of Palestinians Called Apartheid? Reading the Treaty Definition, the Dated Determinations and Israel’s Own Records
The characterization traces to a 1973 treaty definition and to determinations published between January 2021 and February 2022. What each record holds.
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Is Anti-Zionism a Legitimate Moral Stand Against Israel’s Practices? Reading the Standards, the Rulings and the Coded Discourse
What a 2024 UK tribunal ruled, what the ADL and INSS standards set as the line, and what coded discourse studies measure about self-determination.
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What Is the Historical Basis for Claims of Jewish Supremacy in Israel? Reading the Enacted Texts and the Court Record
The 1948 Declaration, the 2018 Basic Law passed 62 to 55, and two Supreme Court rulings: what the dated documents behind the claim actually say.
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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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Is Settler Expansion Part of a Long-Term Strategy to Empty the West Bank of Palestinians?
The Palestinian census counted 2,881,687 West Bank residents in 2017. What the population record, Israel’s own state reviews and its court rulings document.
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What Happened to the Gap Between Israeli and Palestinian Birth Rates?
The Israeli-Palestinian fertility gap fell from nearly four children per woman to under half a child between 1990 and 2024. The data, and the debate over why.