This Is Palestine
This Is Palestine
The Institute for Middle East Understanding
There are No Innocents: Beita 1988 and the Logic of Collective Punishment
37 minutes Posted Apr 2, 2026 at 8:57 am.
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This episode examines the 1988 Beita incident, a few months following the outbreak of the first Intifada, when an entire Palestinian community was punished for a crime they did not commit. Through eyewitness accounts and historical context, we trace how home demolitions, mass arrests, and forced exile became tools of Israel’s collective punishment and how similar patterns continue to shape the present today.