WSJ opinion article gets heat for using partition of India to justify Trump's Gaza 'takeover'

A recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) opinion piece - "If Indians and Pakistanis Can Relocate, Why Can’t Gazans?" - has received an onslaught of criticism this week from people online who say the argument obscures the violence that ensued after India's partition. 

The piece, published on Wednesday, argues that population transfers were not invented by US President Donald Trump - who is set on "taking over" the Gaza Strip and "cleaning" it out by transferring Palestinians into nearby countries - and that "there are plenty of examples from the 20th century",  such as the 1947 partition of India.

“No one expects Pakistan to transform its religious demography by offering a ‘right of return’ to descendants of Hindu and Sikh refugees. Why should it be any different for Israel?" the piece says, referring to the Palestinians' legal argument that refugees and their descendants have a right to return to the land from which they were displaced. 

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