So what, a few migrants from the Iberian peninsula (Europeans) were in Palestine. They were welcomed by the Muslims after being expelled by us Christians because they were Muslim allies in Iberia. That doesn't change anything moron.
They weren't expelled by "you" Christians. YOU had nothing to do with it, other than you still subscribe to the same ideology that caused them to leave. YOU also are not an authority on how many Jews actually made it to the holy land. YOU need to stop grouping people based on their religion, bigot.
Of course we expelled the Jews. You were our enemies allied with the Muslims. You always make a fool of yourself Roufti. This is so entertaining.
"Crusader Rule. The crusader rule (1100-1260) brought a temporary end to the Jewish settlement in Hebron. In 1100 the Crusaders captured the city, turned the mosque and the adjoining synagogue into a church and monastery,
and expelled the Jews. "
http://www.hebron.com/english/article.php?id=178
And yet, here they were, back again in the 1800's, only to be attacked by Arab Muslim savage invaders. these guys don't look European, they look like native Jews to me:
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The
1834 looting of Safed (
Hebrew: ביזת צפת ×‘×©× ×ª תקצ"ד, "Plunder of Safed, 5594
AM") was prolonged attack against the Jewish community of
Safed,
Palestine, during the
1834 Peasants' Revolt. It began on Sunday June 15 (7
Sivan), the day after the Jewish holiday of
Shavuot, and lasted for the next 33 days. Most contemporary accounts suggest it was a spontaneous attack which took advantage of a defenceless population in the midst of the armed uprising against Egyptian rule.
[3][4] The district governor tried to quell the violent outbreak, but failed to do so and fled. The event took place during a
power vacuum, whilst
Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt was fighting to quell the wider revolt in
Jerusalem.
Accounts of the month-long event tell of large scale looting,as well as killing and raping of Jews and the destruction of homes and synagogues by local Druse and Muslim Arabs. Many
Torah scrolls were desecrated
[3] and many Jews were left severely wounded. The event has been described as a
pogrom or "pogrom-like" by some authors. Hundreds fled the town seeking refuge in the open countryside or in neighbouring villages. The rioting was quelled by Lebanese Druse troops under the orders of
Ibrahim Pasha following the intervention of foreign consuls. The instigators were arrested and later executed in
Acre.
Attack
Letter to the Jewish community of London from a resident of Safed describing the event and appealing for assistance, 10 August 1834
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 account suggests the rioting was premeditated, organised by a local anti-Semitic Muslim cleric,
[23] According 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] Kinglake's is the only account which mentions the individual involvement of a local Muslim clergyman.
Other reports suggest the attack was more violent in nature.
Isaac Farhi (d. 1853) described how several Jews were killed and raped in the attack. Men, women and children were robbed of their clothes and then beaten. Some fled into the surrounding fields and remained there naked "like wild animals" until the danger passed.
[25] 12 year-old
Jacob Saphir was among a number of refugees who found sanctuary in the adjacent village of
Ein al-Zeitun assisted by a sympathetic Arab
sheikh.
[5] He describes how for the first three days they had nothing to eat and how they hid in fear of their lives for forty days. Afterwards they had found their homes completely ransacked and emptied, "not even small jugs, doors or windows had been left behind."
[26] Menachem Mendel Baum, a prominent member of the
Ashkenazi community, published a book (
Korot Ha-Eytim, 1839) vividly detailing his recollections. He describes an aggressive onslaught, including one incident in which a group of elderly Jews including pious rabbis were beaten mercilessly while hiding in a synagogue.
[27] In May 1934, an article appearing in
Haaretz by historian and journalist Eliezer Rivlin (1889-1942) described the event of 100 years earlier in detail. His article, based on similar first hand accounts, tells of how the head of the community, Rabbi
Israel of Shklov, was threatened with his life and another rabbi who had fled to the hills seeking refuge in a cave was set upon and had his eye gouged out. Rivlin states many Jews were beaten to death and severely wounded. Thirteen synagogues along with an estimated 500
Torah scrolls were destroyed.
[28] Valuable antique books belonging to the 14th-century rabbi
Isaac Aboab I were also lost. Jewish homes were ransacked and set on fire as looters searched for hidden gold and silver.
[29]
Some Jews managed to escape to a nearby fortress and held out there for a few weeks. The mob unsuccessfully tried to break into the building to reach the fugitives.The sources do not indicate how many Jews died. It seems to have not been many, though hundreds were wounded
British philanthropist Sir
Moses Montefiore furnished
Israel Bak with a new printing press (pictured) after his original one was destroyed in the pogrom
The sole Hebrew printing press in Palestine was destroyed along with many copies of the Bible. It was three years before the press started functioning again.
Israel Bak, who established the printing house in Safed, incurred a wound on his foot which left him with an enduring limp. Among the distinguished men who gave their lives helping others were Rabbis Leib Cohen, Shalom Hayat and Mendel of Kamnitz, who wandered around the streets without fear of the attackers, to return little children to their mothers, rescuing the victims physically and emotionally, and burying the dead
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