Courier-Journal · Louisville, Kentucky · 14 May 1911
CP-1911-004
Young Turks Would Drive Jews From Palestine
In Spite of Laws Forbidding Acquisition of Property and Limiting Residence, Zionists Believe That the Judaization of Palestine Is Arrested Only Temporarily—The Cause Has Powerful Allies, and Is Still a Factor In Hidden Politics of the Turkish Empire—While Theoretically There Are No Hebrews in Promised Land, the Number Has Increased 50 Per Cent. In Last Five Years—Many Aged Israelites Go Home To Die and Crowd Ghettoes For Protection—All Must Enter By Stealth and Bribery, and There Has Been An Active Traffic In American Passports.
By William Ellis
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM, April 30.—Of all the nationalistic stirrings within the breasts of men to-day the most romantic is the longing of devout Jews to get back for themselves the land of Abraham and David. All Christendom is interested in this project. Some schools of Christian theology stake vast prophetic issues upon it.
Statesmen of Europe are interested in it as one solution of the question of what to do with the Jew… One reason for the complaints of the Syrians at the presence of the Jews is that the latter are not dependent upon their labors for a livelihood, and are also able to exist on a very meager scale, and so are able to greatly undersell the natives in their little shops…”
How this transcription was made
The headline, the summary rail, the photograph captions, the opening and the paragraph about the Syrians have been read back against the scan. The rest of the page is set in agate across several columns and has not been transcribed.
Context added by this archive
Here for one word. In 1911 the Courier-Journal’s correspondent in Jerusalem calls the Arab population of Palestine Syrians, and a line later calls them the natives. They appear once in a long page, as shopkeepers being undersold.
Everything else on the page is about who may enter the country and on what terms: residence laws, property laws, stealth, bribery, and an active traffic in American passports. The people already there are the background of a story about arrival.
Cite this clipping
"Young Turks Would Drive Jews From Palestine," Courier-Journal, 14 May 1911. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1911-004. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1911-004
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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1724 to 2023. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.
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