Saturday, November 14, 2020

  • Saturday, November 14, 2020
  • Elder of Ziyon
The King-Crane Commission report of 1919 detailed an estimate of the population of different areas of what they called "Occupied Enemy Territory Administration" of Levantine lands occupied by allies after World War I.

It includes a curious table showing the estimated population of each district of the OETA.

OETA East is roughly what became Transjordan.

King–Crane Commission population estimates
OETA SouthOETA WestOETA EastTotals
Muslims515,000600,0001,250,0002,365,000
Christians62,500400,000125,000587,500
Druses60,00080,000140,000
Jews65,00015,00030,000110,000
Others5,00020,00020,00045,000
Totals647,5001,095,0001,505,000
Grand Total3,247,500
So what became of these 30,000 Jews?

I can find no record of any significant Jewish population in Transjordan. My guess is that these estimates were not grounded in any real censuses or research. Because if the British had expelled 30,000 Jews from Transjordan, I think there were be some records of it!

Another piece of evidence that these 30,000 Jews never really existed comes from the Palestine Bulletin, May 9. 1930, with a very interesting anecdote:


If a significant Jewish community of 30,000 were already there, they would have been mentioned. 

Of course, the Zionist Jews had little interest in settling in Transjordan as a trade for settling in Eretz Yisrael. (Revisionist Zionists, of course, wanted land on both sides of the Jordan.) 

(h/t Irene)

UPDATE: Here is the original Doar Hayom article (h/t Yoel):








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