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"Hearing of the fighting, the Arabs of Jaffa feared they were under attack by the Jews [citation needed] and went on the offensive."
This sentence implies a clear case of "Preventive war": a very questionable line of reasoning. Citation is very necessary here. If there is none, I will assume that this is a deliberate attempt to justify the unjustifiable and change it to "Hearing of the fighting, the Arabs of Jaffa went on the offensive." Arabs, including Jaffa Arabs, have been killing Jews for over a millennium, without any fear of Jews attacking them. If there indeed was a fear of Jewish attack, it would be important to add more details: fear by whom, by what parts of Arab Jaffa, and how justified it was.
75.84.97.21510:27, 13 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Ehh ... You actually had this sourced quote in the Investigative Commission section: "The raids on five Jewish agricultural colonies arose from the excitement produced in the minds of the Arabs by reports of Arabs being killed by Jews in Jaffa."
Hi everyone. After reading a couple books on the Mandate period I pulled up this article to refresh my memory on the Jaffa timelines and stumbled upon this same sentence that caused debate a decade and a half ago.
While totally plausible, I don't remember seeing that mentioned in what I read, so I went back to the Haycraft Commission Report. While there are some lines about Arabs fearing they're being attacked later on in the timeline (I.e., the line User:MX44 referenced above), I could not find references of that on 1 May.
First, under WP:RSOPINION, this probably shouldn't be used as a source.
Second, this sentence that's being listed as the "source" tracks very closely to the line in the original Wikipedia article from 15 years prior:
Wikipedia: "Hearing of the fighting, the Arabs of Jaffa feared they were under attack by the Jews and went on the offensive"
vs
Al Jazeera: "fearing the gunfire signalled a Jewish attack on the neighbourhood, they attacked first"
So it appears we've got some self-referencing problems too.
As such, I'm going to strike the whole sentence. That means we also lose the bit about the Arabs being "aware of a Communist pamphlet." That's also probably for the best. While pamphlets were printed (as noted earlier in the article), I don't think it's been assessed how much salience that publishing endeavor had.
On that note, I'm also going to make a couple changes to lead sentence correcting the date of the "night before," and adding Hebrew to the list of flyer languages. Here's the line from p. 22 of the Haycraft report:
"On Saturday night... distributing proclamations printed, some in Hebrew and Yiddish, others in Arabic."
The current source at the end of the paragraph references the Segev book. I double checked my copy and it appears that's only in reference to the sentence it's attached to, not the previous ones.
So if someone knows of later scholarship that found this to be incorrect, please correct the article and source!
EDIT: I didn't see that the Al Jazerra opinion piece was also used to provide the numbers for the total dead and injured. These same numbers appear in the Haycroft report, so I'm switching the reference to that.
I removed the "hundreds homeless" part of the sentence since that's unsourced AFAICT.
I am failing this article this time, unfortunately, because of several, very important issues:
The article refers to only three sources, onyl one of which is an inline source. This is a major problem, and I do not feel confident that the article will pass GA without at least 5 more references.
The lead is much too short for an article of this size, and needs to be expanded to summarise the whole article properly.
I think a general cleanup and improvement of prose might be required. Please not that this is a minor problem, and it is bordering in this regard. I'm not surprised however, that a cleanup tag is on this article.
While not an official criteria, it would be nice if this article had a couple of images. Not imperative, but would perhaps even tidy the text up a little.
The first paragraph describe 'Riots' and 'Killing' in Palestine, as it was regular civil war. However, the article itself give report of Arabs attack Jews, when Jews with the British police use self-defence against the attackers, so 49 Arab attakers were killed. It is POV to describe the riots as just riots without mentioning that there was one side of attackers, and one side who use only self-defence.
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Sections?
Why on earth are the Jaffa riots placed under the "Anti-Jewish pogroms by Muslims" section? All official bodies of investigation agreed that the riots were a spontaneous affair—the result of a volatile political situation, not a desire to kill Jews. The word "pogrom" is far too loaded to be used with such a nuanced topic. Same for "ethnic cleansing." —Preceding
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16:10, 1 February 2011 (UTC)reply
Casualties
Report of the Jaffa district governor, 9/5/1921, 7:15 pm:
41 dead Jews: 38 in Jaffa, 3 in Petach Tikva
42 dead Arabs Muslims: 11 in Jaffa, 14 in Petach Tikva, 14 in Yahoudieh, 3 in Rehovoth
2 dead Arab Christians: 2 in Jaffa
243 wounded Jews
130 wounded Arabs
Report on women and children:
1 Jewish woman and 1 Arab woman killed. 10 Jewish women and 2 Arab women wounded. 1 Jewish child and 1 Arab child killed. No Jewish child and 2 Arab children wounded.
Summary on the night of May 3rd:
30 Jews brought in dead, 4 died in hospital, 143 wounded and hospitalized, 77 wounded, treated and discharged (total: 34 dead, 220 wounded)
14 Arabs brought in dead, 2 died in hospital, 42 wounded and hospitalized, 47 wounded, treated and discharged (total 16 dead, 89 wounded)
42 were commemorated in the mass grave in the
Trumpeldor Cemetery: 38 identified bodies, 1 unidentified body and 3 missing persons (2 of whom are also commemorated in the
Garden of the Missing in Action). Another 3 casualties who were killed in separate attacks in June and July were laid to rest in the same grave
[According to the Haycraft Commission, this entry is not an accurate representation of what happened. Indeed, the almost equal deaths of both "Jews" and "Arabs" clearly shows violence was perpetrated not just from one segment of society. Specifically, the referenced case in which perprators "split open the victims' skulls" could in fact be a reference to the murder of an Arab father and daughter committed by "a Jewish police sergeant from Tel Aviv" on the 2 May. The excerpt (on page 29 of the report) is as follows:
"In the other case an Arab living with his wife and family was about to send away his family for greater security, when a party of Jews, led by a man whom the Arabs identified as a Jewish police sergeant from Tel Aviv, broke open the door. The Arab was shot in the stomach and beaten as he lay, and when his little daughter ran to her father her head was cleft by a blow from an axe. The woman was beaten and a boy wounded."[1]
While the British media at the time reported this incident as a "Race Riot" it is important to remember that the dichotomy of "Jew" and "Arab" is a direct result of British antisemitism and European racial theory. As Ethan Katz notes in his essay “Imperial Entanglement”, Britain’s antisemitic racialization of Jews, as well as the interconnectedness of religious communities within the region, made it difficult for colonial administrators to “establish clear categories such as ‘white,’ ‘non-white,’ ‘European,’ ‘native,’ ‘Jew,’ ‘Muslim,’ ‘Arab,’ and ‘Berber’.” [2] This type of categorization erased Arab Jews, among others, from population statistics and official report at the time, and much of the historical record.[3]
^Ethan B. Katz, “An Imperial Entanglement: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and Colonialism,” American Historical Review 123:4 (2018), 1192
^Yehouda Shenhav, The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006)
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This page is very misleading and borderlines with misinformation. “then reprisal attacks by Jews on Arabs.[2] The rioting began in Jaffa and spread to other parts of the country. The riot resulted in the deaths of 47 Jews and 48 Arabs, with 146 Jews and 73 Arabs wounded.[3]
There aren’t any sources provided on any attacks by Jews taking place, let alone that they killed Arabs. Most of the Arabs who were killed were killed by British forces as mentioned in the “events” section but not at the top part of the page. Please clarify this.
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Change “The riot resulted in the deaths of 47 Jews and 48 Arabs, with 146 Jews and 73 Arabs wounded.” To: The riot resulted in the deaths of 47 Jews as well as 48 Arabs who were killed by British forces. 146 Jews and 73 Arabs were wounded.
Correct:
On May 2, Jews in the Haganah began launching reprisal attacks on Arabs – the first of their kind. Armed with automatic weapons, at least one group of Haganah militants broke into Arab homes with instructions to "destroy everything, sparing only small children." Their commander who gave the order reported "good results" in response to his instructions. The chief force behind the creation of the Haganah, Eliyahu Golomb, reported that at least one of the group's militants had killed a disabled Arab and his children in an orange grove. Several Jews were arrested, including one policeman, for their suspected involvement in the shooting of Arab civilians, but were not charged due to lack of evidence. Haganah archives indicate, however, there was a "grain of truth" to the charges. Of the 48 Arab dead, mostly killed by the British police force, it was unclear how many were killed in revenge attacks by Jews.