The New York Times · 3 March 1931

CP-1931-016

Suspend Arab Paper for Ritualistic Libel

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Transcribed from the clipping

“Palestine Officials Find Story Was Without Foundation — Few Arabs Believed It.”

Context added by this archive

A blood-libel story printed in an Arabic paper, suppressed by the Mandate government. The last clause of the headline is the paper doing something unusual: noting that the readers did not believe it either.

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"Suspend Arab Paper for Ritualistic Libel," The New York Times, 3 March 1931. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1931-016. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1931-016

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