Palestinelong 1920sThis article aims at filling some gaps in the existing knowledge regarding the quantitative dimensions of Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine, particularly during the first decade of British rule. It does so by providing an explorative analysis of the immigration in the long ...
British policy vis-a-vis Palestine on the eve of the war in Europe apparently was meant to appease the Arabs. When Jewish immigration was perceived by the Arabs to form the crux of the Palestine problem Britain limited the scope of immigration. Zionists undermined British immigration policy by ...
In May 1942,David Ben-Gurion, representing the Jewish Agency at a Zionist conference at the Biltmore Hotel inNew York City, gained support for a program, later termed the Biltmore Resolution, demanding unrestricted Jewish immigration to Palestine, the creation of a Jewish army, and the establishme...
Jewish immigration remained relatively slow, however, until the rise of Adolf Hitler in Europe. Nevertheless, the Arab population feared that Palestine would eventually become a Jewish state and bitterly resisted Zionism and the British policy supporting it. British forces struggled to maintain order ...
growing Arab nationalism – which Britain had also encouraged – began to champion the Palestinian cause and to demand an end to Jewish immigration into Palestine. At the same time, Islamic fundamentalism, inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, denounced all Jewish immigration to Palestine, ev...
Speaker cheered as he calls for ‘world to be de-Zionised’ at London pro-Palestine demo Mohammed el-Kurd, a Palestinian writer and poet, is an official speaker at latest PSC-organised protest in London and urges attendees to 'root Zionism out of the world' By Lee Harpin January 9...
【3】Ma'apilim was the Hebrew name given to Jews who immigrated illegally to Palestine when immigration was severely limited during the British Mandate in the 1930s and 1940s. The term is of biblical origin, taken from the Hebrew word va-ya'apilu, which means “defiantly they marched”(...
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"The Government are aware of the strong resentment already expressed by the Arab States in regard to what may appear to them as encouragement to immigration for strengthening the Jewish State. It is essential to maintaining orderly life in Palestine, while at the same time, preparing, in accorda...
He explains, for the benefit of the reader, how Jewish immigration has benefited the Arabs of Palestine: formerly primitive illiterates living in crushing poverty, they have received education, technology and economic opportunities. Wealthy Arabs have gained even more, their land increasing in value ...