Editor’s Note: This is the third of a three-part series of excerpts from Washington Examiner columnist Jed Babbin’s new book “The BDS War Against Israel,” written with Herbert London.

Approximately 700,000 Arab Palestinians emigrated from the Jewish state when it was partitioned by the U.N. in 1948. The mass emigration began in 1947, before partition of the British mandate and continued through the Israeli war of independence in 1948-1949.