see also, related: Edwin Black, "Farhud"
(see below)
1. Jabotinsky deliberately provoked the clash in Joffa -- find notes associated with Israeli demolition of Shepherd's Hotel, on behalf of New York Jewish gambling magnate Irving Moskowitz
but of course it’s the Arabs who are the bad guys. been that way since forever.
here’s the version of the Bad Guy Arab Uprising of 1929 from Jewish Virtual Library:
The Hebron Massacre of 1929 by Shira Schoenberg
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“For some time, the 800 Jews in Hebron lived in peace with their tens of thousands of Arab neighbors. But on the night of August 23, 1929, the tension simmering within this cauldron of nationalities bubbled over, and for 3 days, Hebron turned into a city of terror and murder. By the time the massacres ended, 67 Jews lay dead and the survivors were relocated to Jerusalem, leaving Hebron barren of Jews for the first time in hundreds of years.
The summer of 1929 was one of unrest in Palestine. Jewish-Arab tensions were spurred on by the agitation of the mufti in Jerusalem. Just one day prior to the start of the Hebron massacre, three Jews and three Arabs were killed in Jerusalem when fighting broke out after a Muslim prayer service on the Temple Mount. Arabs spread false rumors throughout their communities, saying that Jews were carrying out “wholesale killings of Arabs.” Meanwhile, Jewish immigrants were arriving in Palestine in increasing numbers, further exacerbating the Jewish-Arab conflict.
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In the mid-1800s, Ashkenazi (native European) Jews started moving to Hebron and, in 1925, the Slobodka Yeshiva, officially the Yeshiva of Hevron, Knesset Yisrael-Slobodka, was opened. Yeshiva students lived separately from the Sephardi community, and from the Arab population. Due to this isolation, the Arabs viewed them with suspicion and hatred, and identified them as Zionist immigrants. . . ..
On Friday, August 23, 1929, that tranquility was lost. Arab youths started throwing rocks at the yeshiva students. That afternoon, one student, Shmuel Rosenholtz, went to the yeshiva alone. Arab rioters later broke in and killed him, and that was only the beginning. . . .
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The police station turned into a shelter for the Jews that morning of August 24. It also became a synagogue as the Orthodox Jews gathered there and said their morning prayers. As they finished praying, they began to hear noises outside the building. Thousands of Arabs descended from Har Hebron, shouting “Kill the Jews!” in Arabic. They even tried to break down the doors of the station. . . . : The demonstration by Revisionist youth of 15 August was later identified as the proximal cause of the riots by the Shaw Commission.
Shaw Commission, Goldstone Report — pfff. we know that it was the Bad Guy Arabs that waged a pogrom against Jews .
The destruction of the Shepherd’s Hotel brings the tragedy full circle: Shepherd’s Hotel had been the residence of the Mufti of Jerusalem, central figure in the Wailing Wall controversy:
These attempts to secure the place as a Jewish site of worship were threatening to the Muslim Arabs, who considered this area a part of al-Haram all-Sharif (“the Noble Sanctuary”), the third holiest site in Islam. The Muslims were concerned that the Zionists would take over the whole area and rebuild the Temple. Under the leadership of Haj Amin al-Husseini, head of the Supreme Muslim Council and Mufti of Jerusalem, the Palestinian Arabs began an extensive campaign, urging the Arab rank-and-file in Palestine as well as Muslim leaders worldwide to oppose the Zionists and defend the Islamic shrines in Jerusalem.
That right there — don’t you see?? See how evil those Arabs were?
The Wall dispute flared up in the midst of prayer on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, September 1928. A British police officer removed the screen separating men and women, claiming that its installation by the Jews was a technical violation of the rights of worship. Following the incident, Jews and Zionists in the Yishuv and around the world were enraged, in particular due to the fact that the British appeared to favor the Supreme Muslim Council’s side of the matter. In November 1928 Muslim notables from all over the Fertile Crescent and Egypt gathered in Jerusalem under the auspices of the Mufti. Their struggle over Muslim holy places led to the British Government’s reaffirmation of the status quo at the Wall. Yet the Zionists continued to demand possession of the wall while the Muslims, spurred on by the Supreme Muslim Council, harassed Jewish worshipers.
Tension increased as Palestinian Arabs observed with growing anxiety the gradual recovery of the Zionist movement after a few years of decline. First, Jewish immigration began to pick up discernibly from the beginning of 1928. A second source of concern was the Zionists’ plan for enlarging the Jewish Agency to include powerful organizations. Still a third worry was a poor harvest in 1929, aggravating an already existing economic crisis, and affecting many Arab farmers who were then obliged to sell their lands to Jews.
These three developments were a serious setback to the Palestinian Arabs’ cause. The Mufti and his followers in the Supreme Muslim Council assumed an increasingly important role in Palestinian Arab leadership. They set out to curb the Zionist progress, and the Wailing Wall dispute proved just the opportunity to do so. Using Jerusalem’s holy status in Islam, the Mufti could mobilize the Muslim world’s material and moral support for the struggle against Zionism. His fund-raising efforts, which had begun in 1923, intensified with the campaign against the Zionists’ claim to the Wall. He established connections with political and religious leaders throughout Iraq, India, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Transjordan, trying to use their influence to coax the British into acting in favor of the Palestinian Muslims.
What began with a seemingly minor argument over rights of worship at the Wailing Wall was now a major public dispute, involving both Jewish and Muslim communities worldwide. The year-long period of escalation which started in the summer of 1928 culminated in the violent riots of August 1929.
re "Farhud" --
Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance During the Holocaust
Dec 19, 2010
National Association of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors
Edwin Black looks at "The Farhud," a Nazi-Arab attempt to completely exterminate the Jews of Baghdad June 1-2, 1941. In Arabic, Farhud means "violent dispossession." He examines the alliance between the mufti of Jerusalem - Haj Amin al-Husseini - and Adolf Hitler. The mufti took up residence in Baghdad .. Read More
Edwin Black looks at "The Farhud," a Nazi-Arab attempt to completely exterminate the Jews of Baghdad June 1-2, 1941. In Arabic, Farhud means "violent dispossession." He examines the alliance between the mufti of Jerusalem - Haj Amin al-Husseini - and Adolf Hitler. The mufti took up residence in Baghdad after fleeing Palestine in 1936. After his presentation Mr. Black responded to questions from members of the audience. Mr. Black spoke at the Park East Synagogue in New York City at an event sponsored by NAHOS--National Association of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors and Park East Synagogue and co-sponsored by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East; the State of California Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance; the Binghamton Social Justice Fund; History Network News; the Institute for Religion and Public Policy; Jewish Virtual Library; The Auto Channel; Spero Forum; and The Cutting Edge News.
SEE ALSO, Etan Bloom, Arthur Ruppin and the Production of Modern Hebrew Culture pdf
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