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The 1834 looting in Safed (and apparently other cities) against the Jews living there.
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So, when did the Zionist movement start? About a half century or so later. It certainly cannot be to blame for this or these events. Heck, the Jews hadn't really started to return to Israel en mass yet. Also shows that there were Jewish communities in Israel well before Zionism. Hell, they have had pockets there for three thousand years.
And Muhammad Damoor reminds us of who? Reminds me of the grand Mufti who came along almost 100 years later.
1834 looting of Safed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One account, retold by several Safed Jews to the 25-year-old Alexander William Kinglake, who visited in 1835,[22] blamed the incident on the intolerant rantings of a local Muslim cleric named Muhammad Damoor. The account stated that at the beginning of 1834, Damoor publicly prophesied that on June 15 the "true believers would rise up in just wrath against the Jews, and despoil them of their gold and their silver and their jewels."[23]
The account of Neophytos, a monk of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre described the looting of the town, alongside similar events in Ramla, Lydda, Jaffa, Acre and Tiberias, noting that the perpetrators "robbed the Jews, who lived in these towns, of immense property, as is reported, for there was no one to offer any opposition".[24]
The 1850 account of Rabbi Joseph Schwartz stated that "Everything was carried off which could possibly be removed, even articles of no value; boxes, chests, packages, without even opening them, were dragged away; and the fury with which this crowd attacked their defenceless victims was boundless... [The perpetrators] were perfectly safe and unmolested; for they had learned that Abraim Pacha was, at the moment, so much occupied at Jerusalem and vicinity with his enemies there, that he could not go into Galilee."[6]
One anecdote suggests the rioting was premeditated, organised by a local anti-Semitic Muslim cleric,[23] According to the anecdotes narrated to Kinglake, when June 15 arrived, Muhammad Damoor appeared to the gathered Muslim crowd and incited them to fulfill his prophesy. Kinglake only mentions the occurrence of looting, writing that "the most odious of all outrages, that of searching the women for the base purpose of discovering such things as gold and silver concealed about their persons, was perpetrated without shame."[23]
So, when did the Zionist movement start? About a half century or so later. It certainly cannot be to blame for this or these events. Heck, the Jews hadn't really started to return to Israel en mass yet. Also shows that there were Jewish communities in Israel well before Zionism. Hell, they have had pockets there for three thousand years.
And Muhammad Damoor reminds us of who? Reminds me of the grand Mufti who came along almost 100 years later.
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