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Another large set of Palestinians who proudly trace their ancestry from elsewhere​

This video segment from VOA News describes how many Gazans trace their roots to Kurdistan.

Of course, we knew this. There are plenty of Palestinians with the last name "el-Kurd" or "el-Kurdi," and many prominent Palestinian families proudly trace their roots to Arabia or Syria or Morocco or Turkey and everywhere else.
Here is my latest list of Palestinian surnames and where they appear to have originated:

Abbas	Iraq
Abdil-Masih (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Abid	Sudan
Abu Aita (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Abu Ghosh	Europe/11th century
Abu Sitta	Egypt
Abu-Kishk	Egypt
Adwan	Arabia
Afghani	Afghanistan
Ajami	Iran
Al Hafi	Iraq
Alami	Morocco
Alami	Morocco
Alawi	Syria
Al-Hayik (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Arafat	Syria
Araj	Morocco
Aramsha	Egypt
Arashi	Egypt
Ashrawi	Yemen
Awwad	Egypt
Azd, Azad	Yemen
Badra	Egypt
Baghdadi	Iraq
Banna	Egypt
Bannoura	Egypt
Bardawil	Egypt
Barghouti	Yemen (may be Jewish)
Bushnak	Bosnia
Chehayber	Turkey
Dajani	Arabia via Spain
Darjani	Arabia
Djazair	Algeria
Doghmush	Turkey
Erekat	Jordan
Fakiki	Morocco
Faranji	France
Faruqi	Iraq
Fayumi	Egypt
Filali	Morocco
Gharub	Egypt
Ghassan	Lebanon
Haddadin	Yemen
Halabi	Syria
Hamis	Bahrain
Hammouda	Transjordan
Hannouneh (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Hashlamun	Kurdistan
Hijazi	Arabia
Hindi	India
Hourani	Syria
Husseini	Arabia
Ibrahim (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Iraki	Iraq
Issa	Arrived in 1820s to Haifa, not sure from where
Jabari	Iraq
Jazir	Algiers
Kafisha	Kurdistan
Kanaan	Syria
Khair	Egypt
Khairi	Morocco
Khalil	Arabia
Khamadan	Yemen
Khamati	Syria
Khamis	Bahrain
Khazen	Lebanon
Khoury (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Kukali	Syria
Kurdi	Kurdistan
Lubnani	Lebanon
Mahdi	Morocco
Makhamra	Jewish
Marashda	Egypt
Masa'ad	Egypt
Masarwa	Egypt
Maslouhi	Morocco
Masri	Egypt
Matar	Kuwait
Mattar	Yemen
Metzarwah	Egypt
Mughrabi, Moghrabi	Morocco
Murad	Albania/Yemen
Muwaqat	Morocco
Muzaffar	Morocco
Nablusi	Named after Nablus - but that was named in the 7th century
Nammari	Spain
Nashashibi	Kurdish/Turkoman/Syria
Nusseibeh	Arrived 7th Century
Omaya	Arabia
Othman	Turkey
Qudwa	Syria
Qurashi	Arabia
Qutob	Morocco
Ridwan	Ottoman
Rishmawi (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Sa'ad	Egypt
Salibas	Greece
Samahadna	Sudan (maybe)
Saud / Saudi	Arabia
Shaalan	Egypt
Shakirat	Egypt
Shami	Syria
Shamis	Syria
Shashani	Chechnya
Shawish	Arabia
Sidawi	Lebanon
Sous (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Sultan	Turkey
Surani	Lebanon
Taamari	Arabia
Tachriti	Iraq
Tamimi	Yemen/Egypt/Arabia
Tarabin	Mecca oe Egypt
Tarabulsi	Lebanon
Tartir	Egypt
Tawil	Egypt
Tayib	Morocco
Tijani	Morocco
Tikriti	Iraq
Touqan	Northern Arabia or Syria
Turki	Turkey
Ubayyidi	Sudan
Uthman	Turkey
Yacoub (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Yamani	Yemen
Zabidat	Egypt
Zaghab	Morocco
Zarqawi	Jordan
Zeitawi	Morocco
Zoabi	Iraq
Zubeidi	Iraq

Another large set of Palestinians who proudly trace their ancestry from elsewhere

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

elderofziyon.blogspot.com

 

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Another large set of Palestinians who proudly trace their ancestry from elsewhere​

This video segment from VOA News describes how many Gazans trace their roots to Kurdistan.

Of course, we knew this. There are plenty of Palestinians with the last name "el-Kurd" or "el-Kurdi," and many prominent Palestinian families proudly trace their roots to Arabia or Syria or Morocco or Turkey and everywhere else.
Here is my latest list of Palestinian surnames and where they appear to have originated:

Abbas	Iraq
Abdil-Masih (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Abid	Sudan
Abu Aita (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Abu Ghosh	Europe/11th century
Abu Sitta	Egypt
Abu-Kishk	Egypt
Adwan	Arabia
Afghani	Afghanistan
Ajami	Iran
Al Hafi	Iraq
Alami	Morocco
Alami	Morocco
Alawi	Syria
Al-Hayik (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Arafat	Syria
Araj	Morocco
Aramsha	Egypt
Arashi	Egypt
Ashrawi	Yemen
Awwad	Egypt
Azd, Azad	Yemen
Badra	Egypt
Baghdadi	Iraq
Banna	Egypt
Bannoura	Egypt
Bardawil	Egypt
Barghouti	Yemen (may be Jewish)
Bushnak	Bosnia
Chehayber	Turkey
Dajani	Arabia via Spain
Darjani	Arabia
Djazair	Algeria
Doghmush	Turkey
Erekat	Jordan
Fakiki	Morocco
Faranji	France
Faruqi	Iraq
Fayumi	Egypt
Filali	Morocco
Gharub	Egypt
Ghassan	Lebanon
Haddadin	Yemen
Halabi	Syria
Hamis	Bahrain
Hammouda	Transjordan
Hannouneh (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Hashlamun	Kurdistan
Hijazi	Arabia
Hindi	India
Hourani	Syria
Husseini	Arabia
Ibrahim (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Iraki	Iraq
Issa	Arrived in 1820s to Haifa, not sure from where
Jabari	Iraq
Jazir	Algiers
Kafisha	Kurdistan
Kanaan	Syria
Khair	Egypt
Khairi	Morocco
Khalil	Arabia
Khamadan	Yemen
Khamati	Syria
Khamis	Bahrain
Khazen	Lebanon
Khoury (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Kukali	Syria
Kurdi	Kurdistan
Lubnani	Lebanon
Mahdi	Morocco
Makhamra	Jewish
Marashda	Egypt
Masa'ad	Egypt
Masarwa	Egypt
Maslouhi	Morocco
Masri	Egypt
Matar	Kuwait
Mattar	Yemen
Metzarwah	Egypt
Mughrabi, Moghrabi	Morocco
Murad	Albania/Yemen
Muwaqat	Morocco
Muzaffar	Morocco
Nablusi	Named after Nablus - but that was named in the 7th century
Nammari	Spain
Nashashibi	Kurdish/Turkoman/Syria
Nusseibeh	Arrived 7th Century
Omaya	Arabia
Othman	Turkey
Qudwa	Syria
Qurashi	Arabia
Qutob	Morocco
Ridwan	Ottoman
Rishmawi (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Sa'ad	Egypt
Salibas	Greece
Samahadna	Sudan (maybe)
Saud / Saudi	Arabia
Shaalan	Egypt
Shakirat	Egypt
Shami	Syria
Shamis	Syria
Shashani	Chechnya
Shawish	Arabia
Sidawi	Lebanon
Sous (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Sultan	Turkey
Surani	Lebanon
Taamari	Arabia
Tachriti	Iraq
Tamimi	Yemen/Egypt/Arabia
Tarabin	Mecca oe Egypt
Tarabulsi	Lebanon
Tartir	Egypt
Tawil	Egypt
Tayib	Morocco
Tijani	Morocco
Tikriti	Iraq
Touqan	Northern Arabia or Syria
Turki	Turkey
Ubayyidi	Sudan
Uthman	Turkey
Yacoub (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Yamani	Yemen
Zabidat	Egypt
Zaghab	Morocco
Zarqawi	Jordan
Zeitawi	Morocco
Zoabi	Iraq
Zubeidi	Iraq

Another large set of Palestinians who proudly trace their ancestry from elsewhere

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

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You are a hoot. Those names are hundreds of years older than the country they are applied to.

 

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75 years ago: Another Egyptian air raid on Tel Aviv kills 18

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Part 1

This is from the top headline article in the New York Times of July 5, 1873, 150 years ago, in a dispatch from Vienna from a nameless "special correspondent."

The Press is much controlled by the Jews, who are wealthy, intelligent, and ambitious.

They have not invented anything. I speak, certainly, without reference to the very old times when they may have invented a great deal. It is incontestable, however, that they exhibit extraordinary aptitude in utilizing the inventions of others. In some places in this slow old Europe of ours, they have run at a belle idée as a pike rushes.at a spinning minnow and carries it clear off to gorge at discretion all alone.

The telegraph, for instance. Baron Reuter furnishes the news of the world to all the English papers and to many of the foreign journals. Wolff provides the news of Central Europe. These are quite of Israel. Then there is the Agence Havas, which may be considered as much inspired, if not owned, by the same great people. Europe is under these thumbs.

And in these days news is money. And now money often means news—in war it is indeed almost identical, and no people understand that better than the parsimonious Prussians who lavished gold for intelligence.

Here in Vienna, as in other places, the Press is largely worked, owned, written, and largely influenced by Jews. They have appreciated the importance of holding the end of such a lever in their hands, :and have not neglected its use.

Their general sympathies are opposed to Roman Catholicism which is aggressive, bat they do not love the Greek Church. They are distracted somewhat between their democratic and liberal principles and the effect which would be produced on ancient States by a vigorous application of them.

Certainly they have reason to be proud of their race, which, despite the heavenly malediction and the hate of Christendom, has now taken possession of so much of the goods of this world without striking a blow in battle, or sustaining the burdens of national life.

In music, in money-making, in politics they play a great part. A Jew owns the purest vintages, the best cigars, and some of the finest horses in the world, not to speak of paintings, statuary, jewels, and china, and as the civilization of the world advances so does the Jew come to the front, not of the combat, but of the gleaners who gather the fruits of victory.

In Vienna there are more Jews than crossed the Jordan with Joshua to smite the tribes of Canaan. In the Austrian Empire there are as many Jews as there were in Judea in the time of Titus—far more than there were in the captivity.

Antisemitism as philosemitism: The New York Times describes the Jews of Europe, 1873

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Part 2

While the reporter is bending over backwards to praise Jews, his praise is indistinguishable from the slanders of the antisemites. The Jews are parasites who do not directly contribute to society; they are opportunistic money makers, they control the news media and tilt reporting to be favorable and profitable to them, they all have the same opinions and act as a bloc for their own welfare. They are rich, and their influence is only growing.

Notably, Baron Paul Reuter was born Jewish and converted to Christianity. In this article, he is still "of Israel" and considered a Jew with the same opinions as all other Jews.

This section on Jews was reproduced in a number of other newspapers in the following weeks as stand-alone articles.

This essay was written six years before Wilhelm Marr - who coined the term "anti-semite" - wrote his first antisemitic publication, The Victory of Judaism over Germandom. Amazingly (or not,) Marr's essay not only echoes the same themes as the NYT in 1873, but which also claims seeming admiration for the Jews:

Without a shred of irony, I publicly proclaim the world-historical triumph of Jewry, the news of a lost battle, the victory of the enemy without a single excuse for the stricken army.
I should like to believe that such candor deserves something better than the zealous Jewish accents of the newspapers.
It is no ostentatious prophecy but a deeply felt conviction when I say that no more than four generations shall pass before the Jews usurp absolutely every office of state, including the very highest.
Yes, Jewry shall raise Germany to a world power and make it the New Palestine of Europe.
It won't come about by violent revolution but by the voice of the people itself, as soon as German society has reached that highest level of social bankruptcy and perplexity toward which we are rushing headlong.
Don't blame Jewry for this.
Our Germanic element has shown itself culturally and historically powerless, incapable of achievement, before alien domination. This is a fact, a raw, pitiless fact. State, church, Catholicism, Protestantism, credo, and dogma must bow before the Jewish Areopagus, the daily press.
Dear reader, stop gnashing your teeth in rage! [You have no right to do so.] Alien domination has been forced upon us. For 1800 years the fight against Jewish domination has lasted. The Semitic race has borne indescribable [external] suffering. You have roughly mishandled them, but rarely have you combated them spiritually. From feeble beginnings Jewry has grown beyond you. It has corrupted all society with its views. It has driven out any kind of idealism, possesses the controlling position in commerce, infiltrates increasingly into state offices, rules the theater, constitutes a sociopolitical phalanx, and finally has left you little more than the hard manual labor that it always despised. It has reduced talent to rattling superficial finesse, has made that procuress, advertising, into a goddess of public opinion. In short, Jewry lords it over you today.
Are we capable of sacrifice? Have we even succeeded in creating a single, nonpartisan anti-Jewish newspaper? Are not even our housewife clubs and similar associations under Jewish patrons who combine business with pleasure for their own profit? Does not Jewry flow into all the pores of our life?
You may gnash your teeth about Germanic apathy. I bow down in amazed admiration before this Semitic race that has set its foot upon our necks. Having gathered up the last trace of human energy, I am resigned to enter into Jewish slavery, not to surrender or ask for quarter but only to die as peacefully as possible.

There is little difference in tone nor in substance between the New York Times and Wilhelm Marr, even though one was ostensibly praising Jews and the other warning against them.

Sometimes, philosemitism is just antisemitism seen through a slightly different lens.

Antisemitism as philosemitism: The New York Times describes the Jews of Europe, 1873

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From Balfour to Bevin - Britain's betrayal of Palestine - Professor Avi Shlaim​

 

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75 years ago: An Israeli government minister does all he can to help Arabs​

From the Palestine Post, July 22, 1948:


Israel had a Minister of Minorities in 1948 whose job as to advocate for the Arab minority population.

This hardly fits in with the narrative of the Israeli leaders doing everything they could to expel Arabs.

The ministry only existed for a year, and its minister had conflicts with other government institutions, particularly the military government. But from all accounts, Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit was an able advocate of Arab rights, respected by the Arab community. A Sephardic Jew, born in Ottoman Palestine, Sheetrit spoke fluent Arabic.

Even during the heaviest fighting of the 1948 war, Sheetrit urged fair treatment of the Arab communities and protection of Muslim holy places.

He was mentioned in the previous Palestine Post as prioritizing the opening of Arab school in the upcoming 1948-49 school year.


And the following eek, Sheetrit urged the repair of water systems damaged by the Arab Legion in Lydda during the war.



I'm not saying there wasn't bias against Israel's Arab minority i 1948 and for years afterwards. But there were conflicting opinions on how to work with Israeli Arabs, and the desire to live up to giving Israel's minorities equal rights was a prominent feature in the early days of the State.

75 years ago: An Israeli government minister does all he can to help Arabs

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How Israel Was Created​

 

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Iraqi radio to Palestinian Arabs 75 years ago against their return: "Choose death over the Jews!"​

The Palestine Post, July 26, 1948, reported:

A commentator on the Baghdad Radio strongly criticized the refugees in the Arab States for their complaints about their treatment.

Arabs who said they wished they had stayed in Palestine with the Jews should he shot as spies. he urged.

"The Jews will make you their slaves, if you return to them." the commentator said. "They will feed you only on bread and water. They will force you to sleep in the open. five on one blanket. They will take your wives and daughters from you. Choose death rather than the Jews."

That's how much they supported Palestinian Arabs!

Iraqi radio to Palestinian Arabs 75 years ago against their return: "Choose death over the Jews!"

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Reflections on the 75th Anniversary of the UN Vote to Partition Palestine​

 

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The intelligent people said that the creation of a Jewish state would mean generations of bloodshed.

But the stupid people won out. That is why we have generations of bloodshed.

 

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Palestine was created as a state when the Treaty of Lausanne ceded that territory to Palestine. That territory is defined by international borders. The state of Palestine was recognized by the League of Nations and a host of subsequent court decisions.

According to the UN, The Palestinian people in Palestine have the right to:

• Self determination without external interference.
• Independence and sovereignty.
• Territorial integrity.

Article 4​

States are juridically equal, enjoy the same rights, and have equal capacity in their exercise. The rights of each one does not depend upon the power which it possesses to assure its exercise, but upon the simple fact of its existence as a person under international law.

 

[rylah]

Palestine was created as a state when the Treaty of Lausanne ceded that territory to Palestine. That territory is defined by international borders. The state of Palestine was recognized by the League of Nations and a host of subsequent court decisions.

According to the UN, The Palestinian people in Palestine have the right to:

• Self determination without external interference.
• Independence and sovereignty.
• Territorial integrity.

Article 4​

States are juridically equal, enjoy the same rights, and have equal capacity in their exercise. The rights of each one does not depend upon the power which it possesses to assure its exercise, but upon the simple fact of its existence as a person under international law.

The treaty of Lausanne doesn't even mention 'Palestine'.

According to the UN,
the creation of Palestine is defined by Jewish national title,
and no right gained by a country expires - Article 80 of The UN charter

 

[rylah]

The intelligent people said that the creation of a Jewish state would mean generations of bloodshed.

But the stupid people won out. That is why we have generations of bloodshed.

Illiteracy in the Arab World

www.dvv-international.de

When Islam is the main cause of illiteracy - in the region where writing was invented,
and Arab imperialism is the one common denominator to all the conflicts in the Middle East,
it doesn't take intelligence to see violence is the likely response to any minority standing for itself.

But for minorities to give up their rights at the threat of violence,
is that an intelligence or power based argument?

 

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The treaty of Lausanne doesn't even mention 'Palestine'.

According to the UN,
the creation of Palestine is defined by Jewish national title,
and no right gained by a country expires - Article 80 of The UN charter

the creation of Palestine is defined by Jewish national title,

Link?

 

[rylah]

Link?

UN - the Mandate of Palestine.

Was Palestine titled with Arab or Jewish national sovereignty?

 

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UN - the Mandate of Palestine.

Was Palestine titled with Arab or Jewish national sovereignty?

The Mandate had no territory to give. The 1924 Palestinians had sovereignty. About 5% were Jews.

 

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Part 1

Social media sites such as Twitter portray a wonderful history of a state called Palestine – but first let us quickly remember the truth.

The historical facts:

For the Islamic world, the area of 19th century Southern Syria was a sparsely populated forgotten backwater with rival clans and nomadic tribes presenting a hazardous obstacle for every trip. The weakening of the occupying power (the Ottoman Empire) and growing global trade – resurrected European interest. It was Christian travellers recognising this area as their ‘Holy Land’ that put an anglicised version of the name given to it by occupying Roman forces – ‘Palestine’ – firmly back on the map.

European Christian and Zionist investment increased opportunity, and immigrants (mostly Muslims from the collapsing Ottoman Empire) began to flood into the forgotten backwater. This time period culminated in ‘Palestine’ being used as the name for the British Mandate, awarded to Britain by the League of Nations to resurrect the Jewish homeland.

‘Palestine’ was never anything but a name of European imperial colonial conquest (Greek, Roman, Crusader and then British). Even the root derives from the ‘Philistines’ – European Invaders from the Aegean. This is why when Arabs bringing Islam had invaded and colonised the area they didn’t adopt it, and even local usage soon fell out of favour. ‘Palestine’ was not native to the land and had no meaning at all to Muslims. It remained just Christian terminology for the Holy Land – the Jewish ‘Land of Israel’.

The anti-Zionist problem​

This may all sound cold and heartless on the notion of a ‘Palestinian identity’ but it remains the historical truth.

None of this helps the anti-Israel crowd that is desperate to argue that Jews came and took over a prosperous land full of indigenous Palestinian people who had lived there as a nation for millennia. As Zionism rose – Muslim interest in the area simply rose to oppose it. They had no interest until the Jews sought to reclaim the land. The Christian world divided – with supersessionists seeing the rebirth of Israel as a direct threat to their own theology – while most Christians saw natural support for Zionism in their bibles. What had been a forgotten backwater was suddenly the most important thing in everyone’s heart.

Even the precious Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa (‘Haram al-Sharif’) built on the Jewish Temple Mount had been left to waste away. Don’t take it from me. This is from the Jordanian Royal website which explains that it was the Zionist ‘threat’ that made them wake up – and led to the 1922 restoration of these holy sites that turned them from decaying relics into the iconic images we all know so well today:

But the anti-Jewish movement still needed a banner to gather around and in time, Arab – Soviet anti-Zionist mythology created the ‘Palestinian’ in order to do battle with Israel. They then set about rewriting history, both by belittling Jewish ties to the Land of Israel and embedding a narrative of the indigenous Palestinian hero/victim.

The Twitter history of the Palestinians​

When your truth is rooted in historicity, the rest is easy. You have nothing to fear, and your role is to educate those around you. With the anti-Zionists- the opposite is true. Education is the enemy – and so they rely on distortions, outliers, misinformation, fake news, and ignorance to help spread their ‘word’. The result is that an army of anti-Israel activists base their ‘truth’ on a mountain of nothing but lies.

This is easily shown by turning to social media. Here are some examples of how ignorant anti-Zionist history is. As each of these examples have been used 1000s of times (with many of them receiving millions of views) I thought I would present them here – along with the truth behind the image:

Palestine Airways​

These tweets hold up the ‘Palestine Airways’ plane as evidence of Palestinian life ‘before the Zionists arrived’:

That plane actually has ‘the Land of Israel airlines’ written across it in Hebrew. Palestine Airways was a company founded by a Zionist Jew Pinhas Rutenberg, and in conjunction with both the Histadrut and the Jewish Agency in the British Mandate of Palestine. It was a ‘Jewish aviation company’ that had trouble maintaining its service due to Arab violence against Jews.

The colourful Twitter history of Palestine

A look at the Twitter history of Palestine. And how across social media a lack of real evidence led to a colourful (but very fake) creation

david-collier.com

 

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Part 2

Qalandia / Jerusalem / Atarot airport.​

This one is sinister. These tweets reference Zionist ‘theft’ and the ‘Nakba’ using an image of the Palestinian airport near Jerusalem:

In 1924 a military airstrip was built by the British Government on land ownedby the local Jewish settlement ‘Atarot’, displacing part of the Jewish settlement in the process. In 1931 the British expropriated additional land from Atarot to expand the airport – demolishing homes and agricultural fields in the process. On top of this ‘Jewish’ land – the British built their airport. In 1948 the Jordanian Army looted and burned down the rest of the village – ethnically cleansing the residents. Only the Jews have been victims of war crimes and ‘theft’ here. Perversely this land is now considered ‘occupied Palestinian territory’.

Tourism and visiting Palestine​

Sometimes, the appropriation of the Jewish story in ‘Palestine’ (the Arabs wanted little to do with it) by anti-Zionists brings about side-splitting moments. The ‘visit Palestine’ tourism posters provide such an opportunity. In the tweet on the left is a screenshot from a PRESSTV (Iranian mouthpiece) interview with Shahd Abusalama – a key figure in the UKs anti-Israel activist circle. Abusalama actually has the poster on her wall.

The image in the post was created in 1936 by a Jew named Franz Krausz and published by a Zionist Development Agency. Krausz, who fled Europe during Hitler’s rise, designed a variety of posters for Zionist groups encouraging Jewish tourism and immigration to the Land of Israel.

The British mandate government​

The League of Nations Mandate to recreate the Jewish homeland was awarded to Great Britain who set about putting in place the trappings of government – and in 1927 the British decided to create a currency for the area.. This all provides material for people who set out to deceive. Probably the most well-known of these examples is the image of the coin with Palestine written on it. Displayed as proof that ‘Palestine existed’ – these images have been shared millions of times across social media platforms:

The coin has ‘Palestina’ written in Hebrew, and more importantly contains in brackets the Hebrew letters ‘Aleph’ and ‘Yud’ – the abbreviation of ‘Eretz Yisrael’ (the Land of Israel) and part of the mandate’s official title when written in Hebrew.

The British also issued postage stamps:

The colourful Twitter history of Palestine

A look at the Twitter history of Palestine. And how across social media a lack of real evidence led to a colourful (but very fake) creation

david-collier.com