Eugenics, the selection of desired heritable characteristics in order to improve future generations, typically in reference to humans - exactly as practised by the apartheid Israeli regime - i.e. seeking to prevent intermarriage which they do by extreme familial and cultural pressure to marry within the faith, and especially not marry Arabs (there are societies and pressure groups who promote that specific aim), the desire that gentiles who do marry Jews should convert, the declaration that their state gives preferential treatment to Jews, the 'right of return' is only open to people who can prove Jewish ancestry, and specifically against Arabs. All these things point to the wish to preserve racial purity on the grounds that it will provide 'better' humans. Genocide seems to me to be the ultimate way of assuring selective breeding - i.e. in this case, preventing the breeding of Palestinians by killing them all.
It seems that what you describe as eugenics, does not actually involve selection of heritable characteristics, but rather non-heritable traits - i.e., faith (pressure to marry within the faith). None of the examples you cite point to "racial purity," but rather to cultural purity. Using the word eugenics though certainly makes it easier manipulate public opinion.
Eugenics, the selection of desired heritable characteristics in order to improve future generations, typically in reference to humans - exactly as practised by the apartheid Israeli regime - i.e. seeking to prevent intermarriage which they do by extreme familial and cultural pressure to marry within the faith, and especially not marry Arabs (there are societies and pressure groups who promote that specific aim), the desire that gentiles who do marry Jews should convert, the declaration that their state gives preferential treatment to Jews, the 'right of return' is only open to people who can prove Jewish ancestry, and specifically against Arabs. All these things point to the wish to preserve racial purity on the grounds that it will provide 'better' humans. Genocide seems to me to be the ultimate way of assuring selective breeding - i.e. in this case, preventing the breeding of Palestinians by killing them all.
It seems that what you describe as eugenics, does not actually involve selection of heritable characteristics, but rather non-heritable traits - i.e., faith (pressure to marry within the faith). None of the examples you cite point to "racial purity," but rather to cultural purity. Using the word eugenics though certainly makes it easier manipulate public opinion.