Arab Hatred of Jews Predates the State of Israel - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Yardena Schwartz traces the roots of Palestinian Jew -hatred to the first arrival of new Jewish populations in the Holy Land in the early 20th century .

She says Arabs regarded the Balfour Declaration as a “betrayal” of promises of independence the British had made to them in return for rebelling against the Turkish state during the war.

In 1920 , 70,000 Arab men gathered in Jerusalem ’s Old City to beat and stone Jews , ransack homes and stores in the Jewish Quarter , burn down a yeshiva, and kill men.

Muslims portrayed the event as a revolt against the Balfour Declaration , but its underlying principle was proclaimed: “ Palestine is our land, the Jews are our dogs!”.

British tried appeasement, cutting by four-fifths the immigration quota the Jewish Agency requested.

The British caved again, fearing to alienate Muslim leaders as World War II approached.

But despite Britain ’s betrayal, nearly all Zionist organizations suspended their opposition so as to support the Allied fight against the Nazis .