Jewish Terrorists In Palestine

They Even Wanted Hitler’s Support — I kid you not.

It was hardly a secret to the Times readers in the 1940s that some Jews entered Palestine as terrorists.

On December 5th, 2023 I read most of the stories about Israel in the New York Times between 1947 and 1949. I wanted to discover for myself what Americans understood at the time.

Why didn’t a Jewish owned newspaper hide that fact that Jewish terrorists were killing British soldiers or Arabs who wouldn’t allow more Jews to immigrate to Israel? Because Arabs were easily stereotyped as a backwards people.

The Zionists were European Jews and they were just as racist as most Americans. An Arab to a European Jew is as a black man to an American. Racism wasn’t stigmatized then, as it is today.

Don’t assume anything has changed. Decades later, Netanyahu was able to go around Obama and speak directly to Congress. Do you really believe that would have flown if Obama was white?

It was easy for European Jews to foster American racism against Arabs. Virtually no Americans at the time were of Middle Eastern heritage, as you can see in the statistics below.

That is, there were no Arabs living in Europe or the United States to say, “Now hold on a second!”