Concept

"Transfer" in Zionist political thought

An idea of moving Palestinians out of a Jewish state, whose role in 1948 historians dispute.

4 links, 1 backed by primary records

How each side tells it

According to Benny Morris

According to Nur Masalha

Connections 4

Flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948 According to Benny Morris Scholarship & press 1
Morris, in a 2004 interview: no written order from Ben-Gurion himself, but "an atmosphere of [population] transfer".
Flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948 According to Nur Masalha Scholarship & press 2

Proof 3 sources

Survival of the Fittest? An interview with Benny Morris, by Ari Shavit (Haaretz, 9 January 2004), Haaretz, reprinted by Logos Journal, 9 Jan 2004. Scholarship & press
From April 1948, Ben-Gurion is projecting a message of transfer. There is no explicit order of his in writing, there is no orderly comprehensive policy, but there is an atmosphere of [population] transfer.
More land, fewer Arabs (interview with Nur Masalha), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Diwan, Oct 2019. Scholarship & press
The expulsion of more than half of the Palestinian population in 1948 and the capture of 78 percent of Mandatory Palestine by and large ensured
Essential to mainstream Labor Zionist strategies of the mid-1930s, especially from 1936 onwards, was the doctrine of pursuing “maximum land with a minimal number of Arabs” in a projected Jewish state.
Palestine Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5479), His Majesty's Stationery Office, via UN Question of Palestine archive, 1937. Primary record
there should be a transfer of land and, as far as possible, an exchange of population

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