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Were Arabs forced out in 1948?
Archival history puts the 1948 exodus near 700,000, with expulsions in some sectors; a 1949 UN count and a 1950 Israeli law recorded no cause.
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80 results for “Census of Palestine”
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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.
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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A 1975 UN vote classed Zionism as racism and was revoked in 1991.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.
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Early Zionism’s “Arab question,” explained
Ahad Ha’am set out the problem in 1891; the 1931 census counted Jews at 16.9%. The dated texts from Basel to Peel, quoted in their own words.
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Zionism and Jewish nationalism: what’s the link?
Israel’s founding text ties the state to the 1897 Zionist Congress. Rival Jewish platforms and official counts show where the two split.
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Can a Jewish state also be a pluralist one?
Israel’s Supreme Court in 2000 found no contradiction between Jewish statehood and equality. The statutes and scholarship are read beside it.
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Who was responsible for the 1948 refugees? The debate, explained.
Morris’s roughly 700,000, the UN’s 711,000 and Israel’s 1950s land statutes: how the record divides the argument over the 1948 refugees.
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Is the right of return a deal-breaker for two states?
Oslo II lists refugees as one of seven permanent-status items. The 1974 vote, Israel’s entry laws and two polls show where return sits among them.
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What would the right of return do to Israel’s population?
Israel’s 2026 count, the gap any return would have to close, the one computed scenario, and what the official record contains on return.
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How Gaza’s war tolls held up over four wars
Paired tolls from 2008, 2014 and 2021, the ministry’s own 2024 lists and two estimates show how far Gaza’s casualty counts have diverged.
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Do Gaza’s death tolls count natural deaths?
Gaza’s ministry lists record no cause of death. What the relatives’ channel, the approval committee and the injury-only Lancet estimate show.
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Why Israeli leaders talk about a “demographic threat”
Israel’s Foreign Ministry tied the concern to refugee return in 2009; official counts show the Arab share near 21% from 2024 to 2026.
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When did the Israeli-Palestinian conflict start?
A 1937 British inquiry, the 1917 and 1948 instruments and a 1989 study each date the conflict differently. What the dated record shows.
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How Israel treats its Arab citizens, by the numbers
Israel’s Supreme Court declared a state land allocation discriminatory in 2000. What the ruling, the founding texts and the official counts record.
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Are Palestinians Indigenous to the land?
The 1931 census counted 759,712 Moslems among 1,035,821 residents; two founding texts claim the same land as a people’s birthplace.
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Does Zionism aim to eliminate Palestinians? What the texts say.
Zionism’s founding texts, both statistics bureaus, the Gaza war record and Israel’s statutes, read against three meanings of “eliminate.”
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Is Israel’s Annexation of East Jerusalem Recognized Internationally? Reading the Recorded Votes, the Enacted Texts and Both Bureaus’ Counts
No state has published a recognition of sovereignty over East Jerusalem. What the recorded votes, the enacted texts and both bureaus’ counts show.
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Why Do Some People Criticize the Idea That Israel Is Important to Jews? Reading the Objections Their Authors Wrote Down, the Measured Shares and the Enacted Texts
Four dated texts from 1885 to 1919 state the objection in their authors’ own words, against Pew’s measured shares and Israel’s own enacted law.
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How Is Jewish Identity Tied to the Land of Israel? Reading the Founding Texts, the Dissenting Platforms, the Statutes and the Population Record
Israel’s founding text, statutes and census tie Jewish identity to the land; 45% of US Jews call caring about Israel essential to being Jewish.
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What Does UN General Assembly Resolution 3236 Say About the Palestinian Right of Return? Reading the Text, the 1974 Vote and the Instruments Around It
Resolution 3236 of 1974 calls return an inalienable right. It passed 89 to 8 with 37 abstentions and restates a 1948 paragraph without its compensation clause.
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How Does Palestinian Indigeneity Relate to the Claim for Liberation and Sovereignty?
Three UN resolutions across 22 years attach self-determination and statehood to the Palestinian people. None uses the treaty category of indigeneity.
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How Does the Occupation Affect Palestinian Access to Water and Electricity? Reading the Per-Capita Measurements, the Signed Agreement and the Damage Assessments
Palestinians used 86.3 litres of water a day in 2021 against a 100-litre reference, and bought 22% of their water from Israel’s national utility.
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How Does Israel Control the Palestinian Economy Under Occupation? Reading the Signed Protocol, the Revenue Deductions and the Permit Registers
Israel collects the customs and VAT the World Bank calls the Palestinian Authority’s primary revenue source. What the signed texts and registers record.
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Why Is Israel’s Occupation Called the Longest in Modern History? Reading the 1967 Orders, the Interim Agreement and Israel’s Own Court Record
The occupation dates to June 1967, 59 years by 2026. What the military orders, Oslo II and Israel’s own court record show about its length.
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What Role Does Demography Play in Israel’s Policies Toward Palestinians? Reading the Statutes, the Two Population Registers and the Court Record
Israel’s immigration law, its census boundary and its courts each treat the Jewish majority differently. What the statutes and the counts record.
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What Are the Arguments That Zionism Is Racist? Reading the 1975 Resolution, Israel’s Statutes and the Named Scholarship
The case that Zionism is racist rests on a revoked 1975 UN vote, two Israeli statutes and rival scholarship. What each text says.
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Does “Occupation” Still Describe Israel? What the Word Designates, the Test It Turns On, and What Each Register Counts
The term attaches to named parcels of territory, not to a state. What the instruments, Israel’s own court record and each population register show.
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Does Length of Residence Decide Whether an Expulsion Is Lawful? Reading the Treaty Clauses, the Land Codes and the Compensation File
The instruments governing forced displacement carry no term of years. Where duration is legally operative, it is in property law.
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Did Zionists Want a Jewish State With as Few Palestinian Arabs as Possible? Reading the Transfer Documents, the 1937 Recommendation and the Founding Text
The transfer statements are letters and remarks; the 225,000 figure is British. What the pre-state record holds, document by document.
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What Is the Human Cost of the Israeli Occupation? Reading the Registers, the Windows and Each Party’s Own Counts
Four registers count the occupation’s human cost across different territories and years. What each one measures, and where the counting stops.
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How Much Room Is There for Two Populations Between the River and the Sea? Reading Both Statistical Registers, the Refugee Counts and the Fertility Series
The Palestinian bureau recorded 5,853 people per square kilometre in Gaza. What both statistical registers count, and where they disagree.
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What Does the Gaza Health Ministry Publish About Its Own Count? Reading the Four Lists, the Daily Report and the Ministry’s Own Statements
Gaza’s health ministry published 21,323 records in its first name-by-name list, and no list carries a date of death. What the documents show.
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Have Gaza’s Casualty Counts Been Tested? Reading the One Sentence Behind the Claim and the Lists the Ministry Publishes
The 1.5% to 3.8% accuracy claim traces to one uncited sentence in a Lancet letter. What the Gaza health ministry publishes about its own lists.
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How Does the Gaza Blockade Affect Children? Reading the Child Population Each Bureau Projects and the Counts the Ministry Publishes
1,046,400 children under 18 lived in Gaza at mid-2023 on the bureau’s own projection, and the ministry that counts children among the dead counts no missing.
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Are Israeli Forces Targeting Palestinian Children? Reading the Registers That Count Children and Each Party’s Own Records
One register counts Gaza’s children as children: the Gaza Ministry of Health’s, at 15,613 of 50,021. What its own documents record, and what Israel’s do not.
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Are Gaza’s Casualty Figures Propaganda? Reading the Ministry’s Own Published Lists, Document by Document
The Ministry of Health in Gaza published 21,323 named records to 29 March 2024. What its four lists hold, what it excludes, and what no column records.
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What Do UN Reports Find About Children in Gaza? Reading the Documents Named, the Peer-Reviewed Analyses and Where Each Figure Was Produced
Naming the documents behind “UN reports say” on children in Gaza: 68.2% of 475 schools damaged in 46 days, and where each relayed figure was produced.
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Are 72% of Gaza’s Dead Women and Children? Reading What Each Share Counts
A Lancet study reports 16,699 of 28,257 recorded Gaza deaths, 59.1%, as women, children under 18 and people 65 and over. Each share counts a different base.
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Does Israel Prevent Palestinians in Gaza From Accessing Humanitarian Aid? Reading the Enacted Standard, the Entry Counts and the Household Enumeration
US law has barred assistance to governments that restrict humanitarian aid since 1996. What the entry counts and the site enumeration each measured.
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What Would a Palestinian State Require to Function? Reading the Registers, Censuses and Audits
What the registers, censuses, audits and court files record about the machinery a Palestinian state would run on, and where the record holds nothing.
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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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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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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 68 to 9 against Palestinian statehood in July 2024. What the recorded votes and the law of occupation each hold.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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
An 1886 clash, a labor ratio, boundary and grazing disputes in the colony archives: 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 property claims the Conciliation Commission sampled in 1951, and the valuations on record, each named and dated.
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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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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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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’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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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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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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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?
One ministry counts families past a loss threshold and single strikes are recorded case by case; neighborhood-level erasure is described, not counted.
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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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What Is the “End Game of Zionism” Concerning Palestinian Land? Reading the Enacted Texts and the Land Records
Israel’s 2018 Basic Law, the Levy and Sasson reviews, and the Palestinian census records, set against the river-to-sea reading of Zionism’s stated end.
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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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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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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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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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Which Israeli Laws Are Called Jewish Supremacist, and What Do They Say?
Seven Israeli laws carry the label. One is a Basic Law, passed 62 to 55 in July 2018 and upheld 10 to 1 by the Supreme Court in July 2021.
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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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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.
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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.