Myth BUSTED: The “Mass Arab Migration” to British Palestine never happened. Demographers, historians, British commissions, Ottoman records, and modern genetic studies demolish this politically motivated fairytale. We’ve got the receipts.
Sources & References mentioned in the video:
- Justin McCarthy
The Population of Palestine: Population History and Statistics of the Late Ottoman Period and the Mandate (Columbia University Press, 1990), pp. 37–39, 49–53.
“There is no evidence that a large number of Arabs came into Palestine during the Mandate.”
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Population-Pal…
- Peel Commission Report (1937)
Cmd. 5479, British Government Report.
“The Arab population has grown rapidly, but this growth is due to the high birth-rate and to the decrease in the death-rate…” (Part II, Ch. V)
Link: https://ecf.org.il/media_items/290
- Beshara Doumani
Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900 (University of California Press, 1995), p. 5.
“The nüfus registers confirm the demographic continuity of rural Palestine well into the modern period.”
Link: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/redisco… - Alexander Scholch
“The Demographic Development of Palestine, 1850–1882,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 17, No. 4 (1985), pp. 485–505.
“There is no evidence of large-scale Arab immigration into Palestine in the 19th century.”
Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa…
- Arieh Avneri
The Claim of Dispossession: Jewish Land-Settlement and the Arabs, 1878–1948 (Transaction Publishers, 1984), p. 274.
“Arab immigration into Palestine was small and cannot account for the population increase.”
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Claim-Disposse…
- Rashid Khalidi
Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (Columbia University Press, 1997), p. 35.
“The presence of names like al-Masri or al-Halabi proves little or nothing about recent immigration.”
Link: https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/book…
- Haber et al. (2020)
“The Genetic History of the Southern Levant,” Cell, Vol. 181, Issue 6 (May 2020), pp. 1216–1230.e17.
“Present-day Levantine populations derive much of their ancestry from people who lived in the region during the Bronze Age.”
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.0…
- Howard M. Sachar
A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time (Knopf, 2007), pp. 206–209.
Details how Jewish labor unions promoted “Hebrew labor,” limiting Arab job access.
Link: https://www.amazon.com/History-Israel…
Additional Scholarly Sources:
- Gudrun Krämer
A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel (Princeton University Press, 2008), pp. 140–144, 162.
“Available data strongly suggest that Arab population growth was almost entirely due to natural increase.”
Link: https://press.princeton.edu/books/har…
- Salim Tamari
Mountain Against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture (University of California Press, 2009), Chapter 2: “The Demographic Myth.”
“Contrary to the immigration thesis, most rural Palestinians remained deeply attached to their land and villages, a pattern uninterrupted for centuries.”
Link: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/mountai…
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