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DAMASCUS AFFAIR , a notorious *blood libel in 1840 in which Christian antisemitism and popular Muslim anti-Jewish feelings came to a head and were aggravated by the political struggle of the European powers for influence in the Middle East.
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Influence of the incident and reactions to it[edit]
In a new and groundbreaking effort, the American Jewish community of 15,000[11] protested in six American cities on behalf of their Syrian brethren. "For the first time in American Jewish life, Jews... organized themselves politically to help Diaspora Jewry in distress."
According to Hasia R. Diner, in The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000, "For the Jews, the Damascus affair launched modern Jewish politics on an international scale, and for American Jews it represented their first effort at creating a distinctive political agenda. Just as the United States had used this affair to proclaim its presence on the global scale, so too did American Jews, in their newspapers and at mass meetings, announce to their coreligionists in France and England that they too ought to be thought of players in global Jewish diplomacy."[13]
According to Johannes Valentin Schwarz, the events also encouraged the growth of a modern Jewish press. "As a result, a sense of solidarity was evoked among the Jewish communities of Europe they had never experienced before. Thus, the Damascus Affair gave birth to modern Jewish press especially in Western Europe, such as to the long-lived papers Les Archives Israélites de France (1840-1935) in Paris or The Jewish Chronicle (1841 ff.) in London."[14]
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See what I was saying?
Arabs have no one to blame but themselves...for returning a favor.
The Damascus Affair was in 1840.. Until the 1920s the Jewish population of Palestine was tiny.
And this is exactly why...
but you have neither the guts nor intellectual honesty to admit.
All you know is "blame da Joooz"...pathetic...still wonder why you fail and we lead?
The Palestinians didn't come from Europe or Russia. They have been there in Palestine since before Islam. You act like they have no rights or ever existed. You claim it was a land without people.
That explains your sadism and why you didn't deserve to be defeated by dhimmi Jews?
Or why the so called "Palestinians" can't even pronounce 'P-alestine'
without learning a foreign language?
You are frauds and you know it, you have no honor, not at all.
And can't deal with your own responsibility in becoming the disgrace of the Arab world.
The 'p' in Palestine is supposed to be pronounced as an 'f' historically, because it comes from Phoenicians and Philistines.
The people pronouncing it with a hard 'p' are getting it all wrong.