Buffalo Jewish Review · Buffalo, New York · 19 July 1929
CP-1929-001
Land Question Agitates Palestinian Arabs, Plans for Colonization Under Way
Moslem Supreme Council Buys 4,000 Dunams to Keep Land from Jews
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“A renewed interest in the Palestine land question is noticeable in the Arab press and in Arab political circles in the country. According to a report from the Palestine paper ‘Felastin,’ the Arab villagers of Taibe sold to the Moslem Supreme Council an area of 4,000 dunams at the low rate of £2 per dunam. The purchase was made as a part of the Supreme Council’s campaign to obtain possession of considerable land areas to prevent their transfer to Jews. The body is thus becoming actively engaged in opposing the acquisition of land by Jews. According to another report published in the Haifa Arab paper, ‘An Afir,’ a group of Arab immigrants in the United States contemplates the establishment in Palestine of an Arab colony. An area of 5,000 dunams is to be acquired for the purpose.”
Context added by this archive
<i>Palestinian Arabs</i> in a 1929 headline, and <i>colonization</i> used for an Arab settlement scheme. Two Arabic newspapers are named as sources.
Correction to the caption this arrived with
Slide 9 captions this scan as The Dispatch, 17 July 1911. It reports the Moslem Supreme Council and Pinchas Ruttenberg’s Jordan Electric Works, neither of which existed in 1911. Filed to the caption on the other scan on that slide.
Cite this item
"Land Question Agitates Palestinian Arabs, Plans for Colonization Under Way," Buffalo Jewish Review, 19 July 1929. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1929-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1929-001
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- Syria and Saudia to Support Palestine Arabs, Cairo HearsBuffalo Jewish Review · 1 October 1937 · the same newspaper
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