We need to come up with new phrase to replace "ethnic cleansing"

[Beastly Boy]

13. Good idea, considering how badly the term is misunderstood.

Most people I found commenting on it make no attempt to distinguish between ethnic cleansing and ethnic conflict on one hand, and ethnic cleansing and genocide on the other.

Most importantly, the fact that ethnic cleansing, like ethnic conflict and unlike genocide, is not a legal concept, is being routinely lost in the conversations, especially in relation to Israel.

The reason why it is the case with Israel to the exclusion of most other instances of ethnic cleansing and ethnic conflict is peculiar in itself, but your OP does not appear to be so narrowly focused (my hat is off to you for making this apparent), so I will not go into it any further.

It would certainly be advantageous for what we term ethnic cleansing today to be recognizably self-evident and distinct from either ethnic conflict or genocide in order to disambiguate it from the other two beyond any doubt, but I would rather leave it to the legal scholars to wrestle with this challenge.