Ethnic cleansing

Borrell: Israel ethnically cleansing Gaza to create 'splendid holiday destination'

The former European Commission VP accepted an award on Friday with a speech littered with Holocaust inversion and genocide accusations.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell looks on as he leaves on the second day of the G7 foreign ministers' meeting in Fiuggi, Italy, November 26, 2024.
A man receives a blanketed child from another crossing the Nahr al-Kabir river, forming the border between Syria's western Latakia province and northern Lebanon in the Hekr al-Daher area on March 11, 2025, as families from Syria's Alawite minority enter Lebanon to flee from sectarian violence

Alawite Syrians to 'Post': We need Israel's help from jihadist atrocities - exclusive

“Al-Sharaa’s forces are carrying out ethnic cleansing against the ‘infidels,’” a Syrian Alawite told the Jerusalem Post

|ByOHAD MERLIN
Moshe 'Bogie' Ya'alon seen over an image of a Hezbollah flag and the Yarkon River (illustrative)

Former defense minister Ya'alon: 'We are being dragged into ethnic cleansing in Gaza'

Ya'alon said a majority of Israelis don't want annexation in Gaza but rather separation and blamed the government for dragging the public down a path it doesn't favor.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Supporters of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) gather to celebrate Nowruz, which marks the arrival of spring, in Istanbul, Turkey, March 17, 2024.

The war on Syrian Kurds and the little-known axis of ethnic cleansing - opinion

Local and global rights groups have raised alarms about these crimes, but the perpetrators continue their campaign, unrestrained by the international community. 

|ByHADEEL OUEIS

At least 87 buried in Sudan mass grave, including women, children - UN

The ethnic killings have raised fears of a repeat of the atrocities perpetrated in Darfur.

JULY 13, 2023ByREUTERS
Sudanese people, who fled the violence in their country and newly arrived, wait to be registered at the camp near the border between Sudan and Chad in Adre, Chad April 26, 2023.

Russia abducting Ukrainian children, putting up for adoption in Russia

In the latest development in a series of reported war crimes committed by Russian forces in their war with Ukraine, children are reportedly being abducted in plain sight and being displaced in Russia

OCTOBER 17, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A woman and a child wait in a bus after fleeing from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the border crossing in Siret, Romania, March 1, 2022.

Turkish ethnic cleansing strategy in Syria uses Israeli-Arab NGO

BEHIND THE LINES: What is a charity based in Israel, apparently devoted to the Palestinian cause, doing building mosques in northern Syria? Turkish ethnic cleansing.

FEBRUARY 3, 2022ByJONATHAN SPYER
INTERNALLY DISPLACED refugees pass near Turkish military vehicles in Afrin in February 2020.

Kamala, here's my truth

Rather than contradicting the accusation of “ethnic genocide” against America’s best friend in the Middle East, Vice President Kamala Harris chose instead to nod respectfully.

OCTOBER 8, 2021ByMICHAEL FREUND
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris talks with students during a visit to George Mason University to discuss voting rights and registration in Fairfax, Virginia,

Rape, ethnic cleansing and looting: UN reveals Turkey's crimes in Syria

The abuses have been directed against women and children, and primarily target minorities such as Yazidis, Kurds and Christians.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Turkey-backed Syrian rebel fighters walk together near the border town of Tel Abyad, Syria, October 12, 2019

Palestinian student walks out on Holocaust survivor’s speech in Illinois

The student compared the state of Israel to Nazi Germany, claimed Israel was participating in ethnic cleansing and proceeded to walk out once the Holocaust survivor disagreed with her statement.

OCTOBER 30, 2019ByBEN SALES/JTA
Students in a classroom [Illustrative]

Jewish Canadian mayor: Ban on wearing religious symbols 'ethnic cleansing'

Proposed Canadian law would ban certain public workers from wearing religious symbols; mayor says he meant “ethnic cleansing” only in a “non-violent” sense.

APRIL 14, 2019ByDAVID LAZARUS/JTA
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