Caravan · Brooklyn, New York · 27 December 1956
CP-1956-010
Israeli Acts of Genocide in Gaza Strip
Sami Hadawi
Shown from the top. The whole column — 3.6 times taller than it is wide — is in the enlargement.
Transcribed from the clipping
“The acts of genocide and brutality which are being perpetrated by the Israelis against some 300,000 Arabs in the Gaza Strip... will go down in history as the darkest stain on the record of not only the Israelis, but also of those politicians and powers who have permitted such a state of affairs to go unquestioned.”
And later: “Whereas cries of ‘murder’ and ‘salvation’ in the case of the events taking place in certain parts of Europe are read in every newspaper in the western world... the miseries and sufferings of the 300,000 Arabs living in the Gaza Strip pass unnoticed and without even a word of condemnation or compassion.”
Context added by this archive
The earliest headline in this collection to carry the word, unquoted, about Palestinians. Twelve days earlier the San Francisco Chronicle had printed the Arab bloc using it at the United Nations, inside the story. This is Arab-American community press rather than a daily: the advertisements on the page are for a Norwalk oudist and a New London dress shop.
That is why it sits in a different column of the count from the mainstream papers.
Cite this clipping
"Israeli Acts of Genocide in Gaza Strip," Caravan, 27 December 1956, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1956-010. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1956-010
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