Oakland Tribune · Oakland, California · 6 April 1931
CP-1931-008
Three Palestinians Killed in Ambush
Associated Press
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM, April 6. —(AP)— Two Jewish men and one woman were killed and four injured when a party of 11 Jews returning in a cart Easter night to Yaggour, near Haifa, were ambushed. They were proceeding quietly, it was reported here, when suddenly heavy fire was opened from both sides of the road.
Jerusalem was like an armed camp over Easter, with machine guns placed about the city and armored cars patrolling the streets because of expected riots between Mufti and anti-Mufti forces during a procession of 2000 Moslems.”
Context added by this archive
The word Palestinian in an American headline, used for Jews. This archive already held one such use in a community weekly; this one is in display type in a general daily. The headline says three Palestinians were killed; the first line of the copy says two Jewish men and one woman.
In 1931 the word meant a person from Palestine, and an American desk could set it over a story about Jews without explaining anything.
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"Three Palestinians Killed in Ambush," Oakland Tribune, 6 April 1931. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1931-008. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1931-008
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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1799 to 2023. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.
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