Summary
The Johar Company, the Nablus-based company around which Arab diamond merchants gathered to press the British to free the entry of non-Jews into the diamond industry (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.208).
Details
- Its merchants were among the groups kept outside the industry whose pressure in 1945 pushed toward normalization of the industry, wanting to do away with Jewish exclusiveness (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.202, p.208).
- After the sudden reduction of rough supplies in 1945, the British again rejected the application of the Arab merchants at the Johar Company (Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine, PDF p.212).
Where sources disagree
Only De Vries’s account is held here; no other ingested source treats the company.