Summary
Author of The Arabs in Israel, invoked by Said as the easily available source from which the abuses of the Emergency Defense Regulations against Arabs in Israel could be ascertained.
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From Jiryis’s book, Said says, one can ascertain easily that there was a great deal of post-1948 Zionist writing against the abuses of the former colonial rules as they were administered by Israelis to suppress and manipulate the Arabs, which makes Edmund Wilson’s silence on those regulations inexcusable (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.57 / printed p.36).
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In Said, Chapter Three I: Jiryis’s The Arabs in Israel is named, with Fouzi al-Asmar’s To Be an Arab in Israel and Elia T. Zurayk’s The Palestinians in Israel: A Study in Internal Colonialism, as the best introduction to Israeli legal brutality before 1967 (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.127 / printed p.106).
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Said quotes Jiryis at length on Israeli government education policies for Arabs: the maintained disproportion in vocational schools (19 schools, 1,048 pupils in the Arab sector against 250 schools and 53,847 pupils in the Jewish sector), the 32 of 416 university arts hours on Arab history, and a history program geared to celebrating Jewish history while warping Arab history to a point bordering on falsehood (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.148-149 / printed p.127-128).
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In Manna, Jiryis’s The Arabs in Israel (1966, in Hebrew) is one of two pioneering studies by sons of Remainers in the last year of military rule, and the antithesis of Subhi Abu-Ghosh’s Princeton dissertation: it details military rule, the 1945 defence (emergency) regulations, the intelligence services and the police as institutions responsible for repressing the Arab population and preventing its independent economy, political organization, infrastructure and education (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.35-36).