Thread by @PorazDan

"Allah willing, we will massacre the Jews like we massacred them in Hebron".

Testimony from elderly Palestinian woman who remembers.
#OnThisDay in 1929, massacres resulted in murdering of 133 Jews and destruction of entire Jewish communities in British ruled #Palestine.

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Violence erupted after vile anti-Jewish incitement was coming from the #Arab leadership, and in particular, from the grand Mufti Amin al-Hussaini.
False claims that the #Jews plan to take over the Al-Aqsa Mosque instigated the masses “to take action”.
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In few of his sermons, al-Hussaini was quoted saying:
“a place in heaven is promised for those who kill the Jew”.
Attempts by the British authorities to reach calm failed. Violence began in #Jerusalem on 23/8/1929.
19 Jews were murdered. Homes and synagogues were burnt down.
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Hebron was the worst.
#OnThisDay in 1929, 67 Jews were brutally murdered by an incited Arab mob. Homes were looted & burnt. The Jewish community of Hebron, that existed for centuries -
disappeared overnight. It was not until 1967 that Jews re-established the community.
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Another community that was ethnically wiped out, was the Jewish community of #Gaza. The pogroms also reached Tel Aviv and Haifa, but there the Jews stood up and fought back. 6 were killed in Tel Aviv and 7 in Haifa. In Tz’fat they were defenseless and 18 were murdered.
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Many other communities, villages and congregations were attacked, massacred, looted and burnt. 27 Arab rioters who took part in the massacres of Tz’fat and Hebron, were sentenced to death by British authorities. All appealed and eventually 3 were hung.
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The events of 1929 left a traumatic mark on the Jewish population in Palestine and deeply effected Jews all over the world. The Brits, also shocked by this outburst of hostility and hatred, appointed a commission of inquiry.
May the memory of the victims be a blessing.
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