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82% of Israelis Support Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza, Poll Finds (countercurrents.org)
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Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- A new poll has revealed alarming support among Israeli Jews for the ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The survey, published Thursday in Haaretz, shows that 82% of Jewish Israelis back the idea of expelling native Palestinians from the strip.

The poll was conducted in March by one of the researchers on behalf of Penn State University. It surveyed 1,005 Jewish respondents across Israel.

Support for forced expulsions has spiked. 82% support expelling all Palestinians from Gaza. Over half—56%—also back expelling Native Palestinians who are citizens of Israel. In 2003, support for these views was lower at 45% and 31%, respectively.

The trend is strongest among younger generations. Among Jewish Israelis under 40, 66% support expelling native Palestinian citizens, and 58% support repeating the Jericho conquest. Only 9% of men under 40—those most likely to serve in the army—rejected all notions of expulsion or genocide.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

DNA tests are literally banned in Israel because they are not semitic.

https://en.geneastar.org/genealogy/netanyahube/benjamin-netanyahu

Scroll down to 'geographical origins' and check the map. Be sure to check some other Israeli politicans too.

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I get what you're trying to say, but this accepts the racists logic and argues that they are merely wrong on the facts. The idea that peoples DNA gives them a right to live in a certain area, or even can be tied to specific locations is racist in nature. There are no "semitic people" in a scientific sense, only in a biblical sense. Classifying modern people as "semitic" is only ever done in order to be anti-semitic.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

The premise of the argument is that the land belongs to the people who have lived there for centuries. Not the people who have spontaneously appeared there without any connection or roots to it.

[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 weeks ago

And yet companies in Israel is DNA testing people from all over the world, building a huge database of very private information about all people in the world...