Friday, April 25, 2025
Elder of Ziyon
The letter describes the strenuous (and mostly wasted) efforts to convert Jews, which was a primary aim of Western Christians in the Middle East throughout the century.
But he also adds a section of the failed attempts to convert Muslims, and how violent the Muslims were towards Christians:
The 1856 incident in Nablus was an Arab riot against Christians, sparked by a missionary killing a local Muslim but also by the Ottoman Empire working towards equal treatment of minorities and, specifically, a church bell that had been installed in Nablus. Christian homes were attacked.
Since then, academics have been trying to "understand" the riots, reframing attacks on Christian civilians as "acts of resistance."
It is undoubtedly true that British and American media in the 1850s looked at events in Palestine through a colonialist lens and tended to stereotype Muslims as fanatic extremists. But the desire by today's progressives to romanticize Palestinian Muslim attacks on Jewish and Christian civilians as "resistance" is no less "Orientalist" than the people they accuse of that supposed crime.
Whatever happened to the truth?
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