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What is the “natural growth” argument for settlements? The birth counts behind it
Israel’s statistics bureau splits births from migration. A 2005 outpost review and Supreme Court rulings record where settlement homes stand.
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11 results for “Israeli-Palestinian Demography”
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Why does Israel call Palestinians a “demographic threat”? The government’s own words and its census
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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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.