Is There a Palestinian Right of Return?
For decades, the Palestinian leadership has demanded a right of return for all refugees and their descendants to what is now Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. The United Nations recognizes that there are 5 million refugees around the world, but a separate organization, the United Nations Relief Works Agency, is designed to assist Palestinian refugees. No other organization like this exists to help specific refugee groups.
The right of return works as a bargaining chip to use against Israel, as part of Palestinian leadership efforts to forgo the peace process. The underlying goal of the so-called right of return is a Palestinian majority state from the river to the sea, and no Jewish state.
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WHAT IS IT?
The so-called Palestinian right of return is the general notion that Palestinians have the right to return to their homes and villages in Israel.
The Palestinians see Israel as theirs, and use language that paints Israelis as colonizers who stole their homes. The most popular imagery associated with the idea is Palestinian Arabs holding the keys to their homes that would sit in present-day Israel.
There are many problems with this notion and the hysteria surrounding it.
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Much of this idea is based on the pretense that Palestinian Arabs living in what is now Israel were expelled after the Jews, now called Israelis, declared independence.
The reality is that only a minority of Palestinian Arabs were expelled, which came after several well-equipped Arab armies attacked the one-day- old country. Many Arabs were encouraged to remain and live in peace with the Jews. But Arab armies continued to spread misinformation and pushed for them to flee to make that annihilation of Israel easier. That annihilation never came.
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Odeh confessed to the crime shortly after her arrest, and her trial was observed and deemed fair by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Odeh was deported from the US in 2017 after being convicted of fraud for failing to disclose her conviction and terror affiliation on her immigration and naturalization paperwork.
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Davis has also called for Marwan Barghouti’s release from Israeli prison. An Israeli civilian court convicted Barghouti on five counts of murder and one attempted murder. He was also implicated in four other terror attacks.
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, an Alabama museum and research center dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement’s history, initially awarded, rescinded, then reawarded its 2018 Fred Shuttleworth Human Rights Award to Davis.
Originally the BCRI stated that Davis “does not meet all of the criteria on which the award is based.”
Despite eventually receiving the award, Davis’ record on human rights and support for totalitarian regimes does indeed disqualify her.
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Read: Palestinian envoy to US wants Jew-free state
Read: New York Times Wrong on Israel’s Origin and “Right of Return”
