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Palestine Laboratory (2023, Verso Books) No rating

How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine

Israel’s military industrial complex uses …

What's appealing to growing numbers of regimes globally is learning how Israel gets away with politicide. That term was adapted to Israel/Palestine by the late Israeli scholar and professor of sociology Baruch Kimmerling, who argued in 2003 that Israel's domestic and foreign policy is "largely oriented towards one major goal: the politicide of the Palestinian people. By politicide I mean a process that has, as its ultimate goal, the dissolution of the Palestinian people's existence as a legitimate social, political, and economic entity. This process may also but not necessarily include their partial or complete ethnic cleansing from the territory known as the Land of Israel."

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The OED defines politicide as "The killing or extermination of a particular group because of its political or ideological beliefs; an instance of this."

So, the venn diagram can include both ethnic cleansing and genocide as means for politicide, and, as Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov argues (among many others), from a historical and legal perspective, ethnic cleansing is often the precursor of genocide.