Friday, October 28, 2022
- Friday, October 28, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- 1929, anti-Zionist not antisemitic, antisemitism, Arab History of Zionism, Balfour, Christian antisemitism, Muslim antisemitism, No Jews No News, Palestinian antisemitism, revisionist history
The PLO tweeted:
Moslems and Christians - but no Jews. The Palestinians claim that Jews at the time were an equal minority but Jews were not invited to supposedly Palestinian nationalist conferences.
"All the natives of Palestine, irrespective of creed" - except for Jews.
As with everything else in Palestinian history, look beneath the surface and find antisemitism.
The Catholic Advance wrote about this conference:
And notice that the resolutions are ultimately about attacking the Zionist community, not about promoting Palestinian nationalism.
Also notice:
The Catholic Advance, as we will see later, clearly didn't think that Jews have any business living in Palestine. The Jewish Agency allowed women to vote way before 1929, but they don't count.
The Women's Congress was scheduled right before the All-Palestine Arab Congress, which featured this:
That's pretty much the definition of antisemitism right there (and one that this Catholic newspaper embraced.)