A favorite talking-point amongst Zionists is that 900,000 Jews were kicked out by Arab states post-1948 and that the Arabs should just incorporate Palestinian refugees and accept a swap.

This is meant to make the right-of-return of Palestinian refugees nolonger a relevant issue, to undermine the Palestinians claim, and to distract from the ethnic-cleansing of Palestinians by pointing to alleged similar ethnic-cleansing against Jews by Arabs.

This is all high-order BS, and Zionists only started to use this lie recently. There are Palestinian refugees today while the international community has never recognized refugees of Jews from Arab countries.

Because someone has already made the argument better than me, I’ll quote instead of re-phrasing since it is already well articulated:

As well as the fact that Jews in Arab countries were actively encouraged by the Zionist movement to move to Israel, there is another big problem with the ‘swap’ theory – timescale. Dr. Philip Mendes points out how “the Jewish exodus from Iraq and other Arab countries took place over many decades, before and after the Palestinian exodus” and “there is no evidence that the Israeli leadership anticipated a so-called population exchange when they made their arguably harsh decision to prevent the return of Palestinian refugees”. Mendes also concludes his analysis by affirming that “the two exoduses…should be considered separately”. But the ‘swap’ idea is anyway illogical. One refugee’s right – in the case of the Palestinians, a right affirmed by UN resolutions – can not be ‘cancelled out’ by another’s misfortune. Furthermore, “the Palestinians were not at all responsible for the expulsion of the Jews from Arab countries” – while “the Palestinian refugee problem was caused by the Zionist refusal to allow the Palestinians to return to their homes”. Given the historical and logical flaws, the only way this analogy can be so tempting for some is its propaganda value. The World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries (WOJAC), for example, claim on their website that their mission is simply “to document the assets Jewish refugees lost as they fled Arab countries”. Professor Shenhav, however, describes how WOJAC “was invented as a deterrent to block claims harbored by the Palestinian national movement, particularly claims related to compensation and the right of return”.

The whole Jewish “refugees” is nothing more than a blatant and transparent smoke-screen designed to deny the Palestinians their rightful claim to the land and to distract from Israeli crimes (which, by the way, are still ongoing since Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinians from East Jerusalem as we speak). In short: it is to create victims where none exist in order to deny justice to real victims.

But the constant changing and fabrications and myths of the Zionist movement is a testament to its increasing defensive and insecure self. Zionists are resorting to new myths because they know they have become pariahs and they old myths have been discredited. This one needs to be as well.