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أحداث يافا
Exact day1 May 1921
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A licensed photograph, with its credit, is added after review; never a generated likeness.On 1 May 1921, within a year of the civil administration, violence broke out in Jaffa and spread; the United Nations study records 95 dead and 220 injured. The British inquiry found its fundamental cause in Arab discontent connected with Jewish immigration and Zionist policy.
The United Nations study records that within a year of Palestine’s coming under civil administration, riots broke out in May 1921, spreading from a clash between Jewish factions, and that there were 95 dead and 220 injured. The commission of inquiry, headed by the Chief Justice of Palestine, Sir Thomas Haycraft, found that the immediate cause on 1 May was an unauthorized demonstration of Bolshevik Jews and its clash with an authorized demonstration of the Jewish Labour Party.12
Link to this chapterThe commission found that the fundamental cause of the Jaffa riots and the violence that followed was a feeling among the Arabs of discontent with, and hostility to, the Jews, due to political and economic causes and connected with Jewish immigration and with their conception of Zionist policy.3
Link to this chapterLinked context in the legacy record
Evidence
United Nations · section: Chapter VI, The start of Palestinian resistance
Original-language quotation · enriots again broke out in May 1921, spreading from a clash between Jewish factions. There were 95 dead and 220 injured.Link to this citationUnited Nations · section: Chapter VI, quoting the Haycraft Commission
Original-language quotation · enThe immediate cause of the Jaffa riots on the 1st May was an unauthorized demonstration of Bolshevik Jews, followed by its clash with an authorized demonstration of the Jewish Labour Party.Link to this citationUnited Nations · section: Chapter VI, quoting the Haycraft Commission
Original-language quotation · enThe fundamental cause of the Jaffa riots and the subsequent acts of violence was a feeling among the Arabs of discontent with, and hostility to, the Jews, due to political and economic causes, and connected with Jewish immigrationLink to this citationdocument · United Nations
The United Nations study prepared for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (ST/SG/SER.F/1), as held by the UN Information System on the Question of Palestine.
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