Dogwhistle glossary

"Voluntary emigration / migration"

Ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, 2023–25, and later various officials, promoting the 'departure' of Gazans.

What it signals

'Voluntary' departure from a besieged, flattened enclave is forcible transfer wearing a suit — a crime under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute. The word 'voluntary' is doing the laundering.

How to answer

Name the legal term (forcible transfer of a protected population) and ask the one question that pops the euphemism: voluntary compared to what remaining option?

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