Judenfrei

The German words judenfrei (lit: "free of Jews") and judenrein (lit: "clean of Jews") are Nazi terms to designate an area that was "cleansed" of Jews during The Holocaust.

While judenfrei referred merely to "freeing" an area of all of its Jewish inhabitants, the term judenrein (literally "clean of Jews") was also used. This had the stronger connotation that any trace of Jewish blood had been removed as an impurity.

Establishments, villages, cities, and regions were declared judenfrei or judenrein after they were cleansed of Jews.

In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a fear among many Israelis which has been reflected by Israeli government officials such as Benjamin Netanyahu is that the proposed removal of Israeli Jewish settlements in the West Bank according to the wishes of Palestinian officials is tantamount to rendering these areas Judenrein, or clean of Jews.

On July 9, 2009, Benjamin Netanyahu, in a discussion with the German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is reported to have said, using the Israeli terms of the area, "Judea and Samaria cannot be judenrein."

An Israeli diplomat suggested that by adopting the harsh language of Judenrein Netanyahu's goal was to pacify hawks in his coalition government over his agreement to see the eventual establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state. For a long time, it was considered unthinkable for a Likud party leader to agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria.

In 1952 Pesach Lev, first mayor of Lod after it was resettled by Israelis, said that Lod was transformed from 'a neglected Arab town that was judenrein to a "Hebraic city."'

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