Thread by @Spinozasrose

@kgmongan @yr_ddraig @FatFreds_Cat Don't be ridiculous. You have just admitted that you blame Jews for being pogromed. On August 23, 1929 over 1000 Arabs launched attacks on Jews in Jerusalem. 47 people were killed. This was followed by widespread attacks on Jews throughout Palestine. /1

https://twitter.com/kgmongan/status/1335735751733092360

@kgmongan @yr_ddraig @FatFreds_Cat The British forbade Jews to organize armed self-defense units and within several days, 133 Jews had been killed and 339 wounded. Arab attackers sustained high numbers of casualties (116), almost all of whom were killed by British police trying to quell the violence. /2

@kgmongan @yr_ddraig @FatFreds_Cat Jewish leaders reported that Arab attacks showed evidence of organized warfare; Arab assaults on Jewish communities extended from as far south as Hebron to Haifa, Safed, Mahanaim and Pekiin in the north.
According to Dutch-Canadian journalist Pierre Van Passen who was /3

@kgmongan @yr_ddraig @FatFreds_Cat in Palestine at the time, fabricated pictures of Muslim holy sites in ruins were handed out to Hebron Arabs.The captions claimed that the Dome of the Rock was bombed by the Zionists. That evening, armed Arabs broke into the Yeshiva (Talmudic academy) /4

@kgmongan @yr_ddraig @FatFreds_Cat and murdered the lone student they found. The following day, an enraged Arab mob wielding knives, axes, and iron bars destroyed the Yeshiva and slaughtered the rest of the students there. A delegation of Jewish residents was lynched by an Arab mob./5

@kgmongan @yr_ddraig @FatFreds_Cat The mob then proceeded to massacre Hebron’s Jews — both Sephardi and Ashkenazi — who had lived peacefully with their Arab neighbors for years. With only one British officer supervising, the Arab police made no attempt to prevent the massacre./6

@kgmongan @yr_ddraig @FatFreds_Cat This is what blood libels of the type you so devotedly promote, produce. And this is what happens to powerless Jews who are unable to defend themselves.

You are complicit in manufacturing a bloody thirsty mood by your slandering of Jewish soldiers, by your blood libels. /7

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