Opinion: Why Israeli claims have no credibility outside of the West

In his latest column for Middle East Eye, academic and author Joseph Massad argues that Israel has no credibility outside of the West due to its "staggering record of lies". 

He writes: "Since 1948, Israel has accumulated a staggering record of lies, myths, and fabrications - just as the Zionist movement has done since its birth. Over the last 75 years, Arab and European researchers worked extensively to debunk these lies. Since the mid-1980s, Israeli historians have also exposed Israel’s fabrications through its own official state and military archives.

Israel’s biggest lie of all is its very foundation, which rested on the major Zionist crime of ethnic cleansing. Between 30 November 1947 and 14 May 1948, when colonists declared the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionists expelled 400,000 Palestinians from their homes and 350,000 more by December 1948.

During their war of ethnic cleansing, Zionist gangs committed dozens of massacres and a slew of violent crimes, including the rape of Palestinian women and girls. Yet despite all evidence to the contrary, Israel and its propagandists continue to insist that Palestinians were not expelled and had left of their own accord."

You can read the full column below. 

Opinion: Why Israeli claims have no credibility outside of the West