We invite you to join us to discuss our next book selection: “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” by Ilan Pappé. We will be meeting via Zoom on September 14 at 2pm. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called ‘ethnic cleansing’. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East. The JVP-DC Metro Book Group meets on the 2nd Sunday of (almost) every month to discuss a book related to Palestine and select our book for the following month. To join our Book Group, send an email request to [email protected]. To join the upcoming Zoom meeting on September 14 at 2pm, go to bit.ly/jvpdcbookgroup.