Right, we're taking a "film" over official Ottoman census numbers.
You are truly pathetic.
I have the Ottoman Census numbers. Your's are bogus. I have the census reports. I have posted them in the past. As I recall there were about 6,000 female and 7,000 male Jews in Palestine in 1883.
The film is documentary evidence from a time where there was little partisanship. So, it is accurate.
As usual...Monte is full of shit!
And now the inconvenient truth:
http://badil.org/phocadownload/Badil_docs/publications/Jerusalem1948-CHAP1.PDF
The Ottoman census figures of 1905 reveal a total of 32,400 Ottoman nationals in Jerusalem: 13,400 Jews, 11,000 Muslims, and 8,000 Christians.49 However, these numbers do not reflect those with foreign nationality living in the city which more than likely would raise the numbers ofJewsandChristians.50 Jewishsourcesforthisyearcontendamuchhighernumber, including one estimating 50,000 Jews in a total population of 75,000.51 The Ottoman sources for 1914 for the entire Qada' of Jerusalem, give the number of Jewish citizens to be 18,190.52 The historian Yehoshua Ben-Arieh has examined innumerable sources on the demography of the city at this time and concludes that:
In 1917, Colonel Zaki Bey, head of the Jerusalem Wheat Syndicate, reported to Jamal Pasha that Jerusalem had 31,147 Jews in an overall population of 53,410. These figures were based on birth certificates and police records; their accuracy is proven by the first compre- hensive census in Jerusalem, made by the British in 1922. This census showed a general population of 62,000, including 34,300 Jews.
Statistics that record the residential area of the population in the different parts of the city were not taken at this period. However, it is known that at the beginning of the British Mandate, the area of the New City was four times greater than that of the Old City.54 Residents of the New City at the end of Ottoman rule, according to Ben-AriehÂ’s estimates, were as follows: 2,000-2,400 Muslims, around 15% of the estimated 12,000 Muslim Jerusalemite girls s55, and 29,000 of the total 45,000 Jews.56 Christians constituted 15% of the population in the New City (or approximately 5- 6,000 people).57 However, the city continued to grow as a residential area for Muslims, Christians and Jews witnessed by the 1922 Census where 30.3% of the Muslims were living outside of the walls.
...We do know, however, that there were Jewish and Arab residents outside the walls because the Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly reported in 1881, that of 2,500 residents living outside the walls, 1,510 of them were Jews.
And now for the kicker, so called "natives" had less schools than Jews or Christians! When in hole, stop digging Monte:
Table 1 Number of students in Jerusalem schools in 1882 by type of school and by gender of students
Christian schools
926 Girls
861 Boys
1,787 Total
Christian schools for Jewish students
N/A
N/A
138 Total
Jewish schools
160 Girls
1,547 Boys
1,707 Total
Muslim schools
0 Girls
360 Boys
360 Total
Total Number of Students
1,086 Girls
2,768 Boys
3,992 Total