Arab Muslim groups have made every effort to suppress the truth. Refusing to debate openly those who wish to confront the the Arab Muslim half truths and lies.
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As the ideological assault against Israel and Jews intensified on university campuses, and pro-Israel individuals began answering back to their ideological opponents, the student groups leading the pro-Palestinian charge (including such groups as the radical Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)) decided that their tactic of unrelenting demonization of Israel was insufficient, and the best way to optimize the propaganda effect of their anti-Israel message was also to suppress or obscure opposing views.
The pronouncements of these groups are now frequently defined by the baleful whining of these ideological bullies intent on having only their views aired while suppressing the contradictory views of others. In fact, a leaked memorandum from the Binghamton University Students for Justice in Palestine chapter revealed that members would be required to never even engage in dialogue with pro-Israel groups on their campus, they would be prohibited from “engaging in any form of official collaboration, cooperation, or event co-sponsorship with [pro-Israel] student organizations and groups,” and SJP members “shall in no manner engage in any form of official collaboration with any student group which actively opposes the cause of Palestinian liberation nor with groups which have aided and abetted Zionist student organizations,” meaning, of course, that the so-called intellectual debate that universities purport to promote in exactly this type of discussion will never take place when SJP is involved.
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Its simple, the Fakestinians are fine as long as they're crying foul, but ask them to justify their claims and they refuse to even remotely speak to those asking for some honesty.
Posting links to yet another Hasbara site. How can anyone, except Zionist fanatics, take the piece seriously?
Would accept the conclusions or any assertions in a piece from Electronic Intifada?
In any case any debate with Zionists ends up with the absurd claim that God gave the land to the Jews. In a book of fiction written for and by Jews. Why debate with fanatics?
Bzzz. wrong. The evidence for the land belonging to Jews lies in the hundreds of thousands of artifacts and archeological sites that prove without a doubt the land is ancient Jewish land. On the other hand, there is no evidence that proves there is this fictional Palestinian state or country, ever.
The ancestors of the native people of Palestine that now practice Islam and Judaism once practiced Roman religions, Judaism, the Samaritan religion and other religions. they are the same people that have always been there. The Zionists came from Europe.
Bzzzz wrong. IslamoNazi talking points. This "no Jews ever lived in 'Fakestine'" lie is getting quite old.
History of the Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Byzantine period (324–638)
Jews probably constituted the majority of the population of Palestine until the 4th-century, when Constantine converted to Christianity.
Jews lived in at least forty-three Jewish communities in Palestine: twelve towns on the coast, in the Negev, and east of the Jordan, and thirty-one villages in Galilee and in the Jordan valley. The persecuted Jews of Palestine revolted twice against their Christian rulers. In the 5th century, the
Western Roman Empire collapsed leading to Christian migration into Palestine and development of a Christian majority. Jews numbered 10–15% of the population. Judaism was the only non-Christian religion tolerated, but there were bans on Jews building new places of worship, holding public office or owning slaves. There were also two
Samaritan revolts in this period.
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In 438, The Empress
Eudocia removed the ban on Jews' praying at the
Temple site and the heads of the Community in Galilee issued a call "to the great and mighty people of the Jews": "Know that the end of the exile of our people has come"!
In about 450, the
Jerusalem Talmud was completed.
According to
Procopius, in 533 Byzantine general
Belisarius took the treasures of the Jewish temple from
Vandals who had taken them from Rome.
In 611,
Sassanid Persia invaded the Byzantine Empire. In 613, a
Jewish revolt against the
Byzantine Empire joined forces with these Persian invaders to
capture Jerusalem in 614. The Jews gained autonomy in Jerusalem, until in 617 when the Persians betrayed agreements and withdrew their forces from the region. With return of the Byzantines in 628, the Byzantine Emperor
Heraclius promised to restore Jewish rights and received Jewish help in ousting the Persians with the aid of Jewish leader
Benjamin of Tiberias.
Middle Ages (636–1517)
After the conquest, Jewish communities began to grow and flourish.
Umar allowed and encouraged Jews to settle in Jerusalem. It was first time, after almost 500 years of oppressive Christian rule, that Jews were allowed to enter and worship freely in their holy city.
In the mid-8th-century, taking advantage of the warring Islamic factions in Palestine, a
false messiah named
Abu Isa Obadiah of
Isfahan inspired and organised a group of 10,000 armed Jews who hoped to restore the Holy Land to the Jewish nation.
In 1039, part of the synagogue in
Ramla was still in ruins, probably resulting from the earthquake of 1033. Jews also returned to
Rafah and documents from 1015 and 1080 attest to a significant community there.
A large Jewish community existed in
Ramle and smaller communities inhabited
Hebron and the coastal cities of
Acre,
Caesarea,
Jaffa,
Ashkelon and
Gaza.[
citation needed]
Al-Muqaddasi (985) wrote that "for the most part the assayers of corn, dyers, bankers, and tanners are Jews." Under the Islamic rule, the rights of Jews and Christians were curtailed and residence was permitted upon payment of the
special tax.
Between the 7th and 11th centuries,
Masoretes (Jewish scribes) in the Galilee and Jerusalem were active in compiling a system of pronunciation and grammatical guides of the Hebrew language. They authorised the division of the Jewish
Tanakh, known as the
Masoretic Text, which is regarded as authoritative till today.
Ottoman rule (1517–1917)
The 16th-century nevertheless saw a resurgence of Jewish life in Palestine. Palestinian rabbis were instrumental producing a universally accepted manual of Jewish law and some of the most beautiful liturgical poems. Much of this activity occurred at Safed which had become a spiritual centre, a haven for mystics. Joseph Karo's comprehensive guide to Jewish law, the Shulchan Aruch, was considered so authoritative that the variant customs of German-Polish Jewry were merely added as supplement glosses. Some of the most celebrated hymns were written at in Safed by poets such as Israel Najara andSolomon Alkabetz. The town was also a centre of Jewish mysticism, notable kabbalists included Moses Cordovero and the German-born Naphtali Hertz ben Jacob Elhanan. A new method of understanding the kabbalah was developed by Palestinian mystic Isaac Luria, and espoused by his student Chaim Vital. In Safed, the Jews developed a number of branches of trade, especially in grain, spices, textiles and dyeing. In 1577, a Hebrewprinting press was established in Safed. The 8,000 or 10,000 Jews in Safed in 1555 grew to 20,000 or 30,000 by the end of the century.
Old Yishuv
Jewish life in the Land of Israel
Key events
Key figures
In around 1563,
Joseph Nasi secured permission from Sultan
Selim II to acquire Tiberias and seven surrounding villages to create a Jewish city-state. He hoped that large numbers of Jewish refugees and Marranos would settle there, free from fear and oppression; indeed, the persecuted Jews of Cori, Italy, numbering about 200 souls, decided to emigrate to Tiberias.Nasi had the walls of the town rebuilt by 1564 and attempted to turn it into a self-sufficient textile manufacturing center by planting
mulberry trees for the cultivation of
silk. Nevertheless, a number of factors during the following years contributed to the plan's ultimate failure. Nasi's aunt, Doña
Gracia Mendes Nasi supported a
yeshiva in the town for many years until her death in 1569.
In 1567, a Yemenite scholar and Rabbi,
Zechariah Dhahiri, visited
Safed and wrote of his experiences in a book entitled
Sefer Ha-Musar. His vivid
descriptions of the town Safed and of
Rabbi Joseph Karo’s
yeshiva are of primary importance to historians, seeing that they are a first-hand account of these places, and the only extant account which describes the
yeshiva of the great Sephardic Rabbi,
Joseph Karo.
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In 1576, the Jewish community of Safed faced an expulsion order: 1,000 prosperous families were to be deported to Cyprus, "for the good of the said island", with another 500 the following year.
[128] The order was later rescinded due to the realisation of the financial gains of Jewish rental income.
[129] In 1586, the Jews of Istanbul agreed to build a fortified
khan to provide a refuge for Safed's Jews against "night bandits and armed thieves."
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In 1569, the
Radbaz moved to Jerusalem, but soon moved to Safed to escape the high taxes imposed on Jews by the authorities.
In 1610, the
Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue in Jerusalem was completed.
[130] It became the main synagogue of the Sephardic Jews, the place where their chief rabbi was invested. The adjacent study hall which had been added by 1625 later became the
Synagogue of Elijah the Prophet.
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Installation of the Chacham Bashi at the Ben Zakai Synagogue, 1893. According to legend, the synagogue stands on the site of the study hall of 1st-century sage, RabbanYochanan ben Zakai. The current building was constructed in 1610.
The
Near East earthquake of 1759 destroys much of Safed killing 2000 people with 190 Jews among the dead, and also destroys
Tiberias.
The disciples of the
Vilna Gaon settled in the land of Israel almost a decade after the arrival of two of his pupils, R. Hayim of Vilna and R.
Israel ben Samuel of Shklov. In all there were three groups of the Gaon's students which emigrated to the land of Israel. They formed the basis of the
Ashkenazi communities of Jerusalem and Safed, setting up what was known as the Kollel
Perushim. Their arrival encouraged an
Ashkenazi revival in Jerusalem, whose Jewish community until this time was mostly Sephardi. Many of the descendants of the disciples became leading figures in modern
Israeli society. The Gaon himself also set forth with his pupils to the Land, but for an unknown reason he turned back and returned to Vilna where he died soon after.
During the
Peasants' Revolt under
Muhammad Ali of Egypt's occupation, Jews were targeted in the
1834 looting of Safed and the
1834 Hebron massacre.
By 1844,some sources report that Jews had become the largest population group in Jerusalem and by 1890 an absolute majority in the city.
