Definitions

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  • noun Political suicide
  • noun Political killing

Etymologies

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Blend of political and -cide

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Examples

  • It is a policy that Baruch Kimmerling, the late Israeli sociologist, named ­ "politicide" - the denial to the ­Palestinian people of any independent political existence in Palestine.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2010

  • It is a policy that Baruch Kimmerling, the late Israeli sociologist, named ­ "politicide" - the denial to the ­Palestinian people of any independent political existence in Palestine.

    The Guardian World News Avi Shlaim 2010

  • It is a policy that Baruch Kimmerling, the late Israeli sociologist, named ­ "politicide" - the denial to the ­Palestinian people of any independent political existence in Palestine.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2010

  • It is a policy that Baruch Kimmerling, the late Israeli sociologist, named ­ "politicide" - the denial to the ­Palestinian people of any independent political existence in Palestine.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2010

  • Kimmerling's term "politicide" - the destruction of a people - the Palestinians.

    Hoopler - middleeast.org 2009

  • Meanwhile we are quietly observing a rare event in history, what the late Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling called "politicide," the murder of a nation -- at our hands.

    excerpts from chomsky, "exterminate all the brutes" 2009

  • Others who dance around the subject use terms like 'politicide' or, a new invention, 'sociocide,' but neither of these terms implies the large-scale destruction of people and identity that is truly the Israeli objective.

    Two former CIA analysts on the effects of Israeli occupation 2006

  • Others who dance around the subject use terms like 'politicide' or, a new invention, 'sociocide,' but neither of these terms implies the large-scale destruction of people and identity that is truly the Israeli objective.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • Meanwhile we are quietly observing a rare event in history, what the late Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling called "politicide," the murder of a nation -- at our hands.

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • Your failure to support the Goldstone report, your indifference, not to say your contribution, to Palestinian suffering and the process of "politicide" against the Palestinian people of Gaza is, to say the least, unfathomable, coming from a man who listened so earnestly to Edward Said.

    Salem-News.com 2009

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