Book by Nur Masalha traces the concept of population 'transfer'—the forced removal of the Palestinian Arab population—as a consistent thread in Zionist political thought from the late nineteenth century through the 1948 war. Drawing on primary sources in Hebrew and English, Masalha documents how leading Zionist figures privately and publicly discussed expulsion as a political objective towards establishing the State of Israel. Masalha's work is useful for scholars and researchers working on the ideological history of Zionism, the origins of the concept of population transfer, and the intellectual and political roots of Palestinian dispossession before the 1948 Nakba.
