Spokane Chronicle · Spokane, Washington · 3 May 1941
CP-1941-004
Arabs in Palestine Said to Be in Revolt
Transcribed from the clipping
“BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 3. (AP)—French sources said tonight that travelers from Palestine reported anti-Semitic outbreaks and kidnaping of Jewish leaders ni the Holy Land as a result of Arab reaction to events in the Balkans and Mesopotamia.
This account said some Zionist leaders had been abducted by Arab nationalists as disturbances led to bloodshed in several parts of Palestine, but that the British believed they could keep the situation in hand.
Anti-Semitic feeling, these reports said, swelled with the mass arrival of Jewish emigrants from the Balkans and then was aggravated by the Iraq situation… ‘The appeal of the Iraq government caused the strongest reverberations in Palestine,’ said the German report.
‘Renewed attempts on the part of the Palestine Arabs or organize resistance are therefore to be expected.’ The broadcast said the Iraq government had arrested numerous British agents who tried to ‘incite’ the population by distributing money and propaganda leaflets.”
Context added by this archive
The third printing of the 3 May 1941 Associated Press dispatch, with La Crosse (CP-1941-002) and Oakland (CP-1941-003). Spokane is the only one of the three to hedge in the headline: Said to Be in Revolt. “ni the Holy Land” and “or organize resistance” are the paper’s own typesetting, kept here as printed.
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"Arabs in Palestine Said to Be in Revolt," Spokane Chronicle, 3 May 1941. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1941-004. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1941-004
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