This Sunday May 15 marks the 68th Nakba Day, an occasion of commemoration for the over 750,000 Palestinians that were forcibly displaced by Zionist militias between 1947 and 1950. For Palestinian communities, the violence of the Nakba started much earlier than 1948 and continues today. Our latest visual covers 143 years of Zionist settler colonialism.
Data from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics shows how European Zionists began establishing population centers in Palestine in the 1870s, with British imperial support. From 1967 to present, Israel has continuously engaged with impunity in the construction and expansion of settlements defined as illegal under International Law.
VP partnered with 7amleh, the US Campaign to end the Israeli Occupation, and Zochrot on this visual. It is available in English, Arabic and Hebrew.
I don’t get it. What am I missing? The map is just a time-static map, no history there. Is this a java-script problem?
@pm
i’l cut to the chase for you so you don’t have to miss anything:
the map says: zionists stole and/or ethnically cleansed nearly 80% of the the land from the ‘river to the sea’ and probably more if you consider the only open land mass left is inhospitable desert, a lot of which the zionists went on to lie about making it bloom with irrigation technology when the ‘truth’ is it was all stolen water from palestinians. . also-they started doing it in the early 20thC long before ’48. oh-the map does not include the ‘de-colonization’ of gaza by the rotten evil zionist entity. other then that its a totally undistorted view of history. finally.
Phil and Adam, your “visualizing” map is not visualizing on my computer screen. The screen remains a dull gray.
That aside, again, I would suggest that you cease legitimizing Zionist Israel grand theft of Palestine land and territory. Ethnic cleansing deserves to be labeled what it is–“ETHNIC CLEANING”!
Your headline, “The Making of Israel: Zionist settler colonialism in historic Palestine”, should read: The Zionist grand theft and ethnic cleansing of a country, historic Palestine.
As you know, Phil and Adam, the Zionists who “founded” Israel did not purchase Palestine from its rightful owners, the Palestinians. The “founding” of Israel is grounded in massacre, brutality, racism, ethnic cleansing, ongoing grand theft and horrific military occupation of virtually all of Palestine.
Quora
According to Jewish land purchase in Palestine, by 1943, $560000000 was paid for nearly 400000 acres, amounting to around 6% of the land.
I hear this statement over and over and over again
Just because the assertion of illegality is repeated over and over again doesn’t make it true. Most of the world have had their brains hijacked on this issue by those ignorant of the legal complexities, propagandists and pro-Palestinian sympathisers who follow the dictum “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.”
Professor Eugene Kontorovich makes the case debunking the notion of ‘illegality’ but hacks like Talknic keep harping on about Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention (inapplicable), violations of the Hague conventions re the principle that it is illegal to acquire territory by force (inapplicable ), the UNGA resolutions which are non-binding and UN Security Council resolutions under chapter VI which are actually intended to be followed and implemented via negotiated settlements between concerned parties etc.