Eve Spengler (an Associate of Sociology at Boston College) on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and Saleh Abdel-Jawad’s “sociocide” (2015): “The cumulative weight of all thsie [Zionist] aggressions constitutes, in the words of Abdel Jawad, a Palestinian sociocide. Abdel Jawad’s term has spawned a host of cognates – “spaciocide” to describe the incredible disappearing Palestine, “politicide” to describe the dismembering of the Palestinian political hopes. Clearly his term , sociocide, is the most inclusive and it also has the immense moral advantage of allowing Palestinians to name their own experience, if they so choose. Perhaps it is correct to understand that the ethnic cleansing of Palestine is Zionism’s aim and “sociocide” describes the complex set of policies by which this aim is accomplished without unmasking “the only democracy in the Middle East”” (Eve Spengler, “Understanding Israel/Palestine: Race, Nation and human Rights in the Conflict”, Sense, 2015, page 199).