Claims About Arab Immigration to Jaffa and Mandate Palestine

Listen to this Arab elder from Jaffa in an Al Jazeera documentary.

I know, Al Jazeera, but they actually forgot to cut this part

out.

In Jaffa,

or in Palestine in general, the workers who came to it from the Middle

East, there

was no country that did not

have workers in

Jaffa.

From Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt,

Yemen, Hejaz, Marrakech, all of them.

Tens of thousands of workers.

The workers in the

port and the Palestinian nationality.

The port management in Jaffa decided to prevent

the workers from starting their work in the port.

He openly admits it. Tens of thousands of Arab workers came

from Lebanon, Syria,

Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, Hejaz, Marrakech, everywhere.

They came as economic immigrants to work in Jaffa port and across Palestine during

the British Mandate. This wasn't ancient indigenous locals.

It was massive economic migration. And this isn't only from the film.

It's documented in official records from that exact time.

The shortage of land is, we consider, due less to the amount of land

acquired by Jews than to the increase in the Arab population.

From the Peel Commission Report, 1937.

Clearly, this surge wasn't natural.

It came from Arab immigrants arriving in large numbers.

And just two years later, even the US president noted the scale of

this migration. Because also, the Arab immigration into Palestine since

1921 has vastly exceeded the total Jewish immigration

during this whole period. Franklin D.

Roosevelt, May 17, 1939. A clear acknowledgment that

the Arab immigration was massive.

And for anyone claiming Arabs were always the majority, well,

now you know why. This wasn't a minor trickle.

Arab immigration was reshaping the region. Even Britain's own leader recognized it.

So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country

and

multiplied till their population has increased more than even all world

Jewry lift up the Jewish population.

Winston Churchill, May 23, 1939. The Arab influx

was reshaping the demographic reality, not natural growth.

And the British governor on the ground saw it happening firsthand.

This illegal immigration was not only going on from the Sinai,

but also

from Transjordan and Syria. And it is very difficult to make a case out for

the misery of the Arabs if at the same time their compatriots from

adjoining

states could not be kept from going in to share that misery. C.S.

Jarvis. This highlights it clearly.

Arab immigrants kept arriving from neighboring countries in large numbers.

And much of this migration was driven by economic opportunities.

You know, jobs and projects established by a Jewish

community in Palestine, Eretz

Israel. Hardly a sign of local hardship.

Otherwise, why would Arabs from other countries come?

History doesn't lie.

Economic migration from across the region documented by American and British

records, but most importantly, admitted by an Arab himself.

Share it and stop calling them Palestinians because that's the root of

the problem.