Benny Morris’s Untenable Denial of the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

In a series of articles in the Israeli daily Haaretz in October 2016, Benny Morris hashed it out with several of his critics over the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Who got it right?

While Morris now denies that ethnic cleansing occurred during the 1948 war, his own research shows that this was indeed the means by which the “Jewish state” of Israel came into existence.