Summary
The American commission which, in Sayegh’s account, reported on 29 August 1919 that the non-Jewish population of Palestine, nearly nine-tenths of the whole, were emphatically against the entire Zionist program; Sayegh quotes it (through George Antonius) as evidence of the Palestinian people’s feelings in the first expression of their opposition in 1919.
Details
- Palestinian Arab opposition to the Anglo-Zionist partnership was first expressed in 1919 in diplomatic representations and collective declarations, and the American King-Crane Commission was left in no doubt about the true feelings of the people of Palestine (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.17 / printed p.222).
- On 29 August 1919 the Commission reported that the non-Jewish population of Palestine, nearly nine-tenths of the whole, are emphatically against the entire Zionist program, and that there was nothing upon which the population was more agreed (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.17 / printed p.222).
- Sayegh’s source for the quotation is George Antonius, The Arab Awakening (Beirut: Khayats, 1955), p.449 (Note 3) (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.20 / printed p.225).
- Its findings corroborated the decisions of the General Syrian Congress (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.17 / printed p.222).
Related pages
Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, General Syrian Congress, Balfour Declaration