Defining Neighbors. Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter - Jonathan Marc Gribetz

164 • ChAPTEr 4 Muhammad ʿAbduh, rida explains that Jews abandoned many of the original torah’s laws while adding others that we ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 165 even in the course of his own polemic against Judaism, rida holds fast to the contention that J ...

166 • ChAPTEr 4 and immediate.” the Jews are, after all, “a nation [qawm] that engages in excessive usury.” through their decept ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 167 to Jerusalem and its surroundings” but also of their intentions to “evict the Muslims and Chris ...

168 • ChAPTEr 4 While rida argues forcefully against Zionism, he, like al- Khalidi, does not cast doubt on the fundamental Jewis ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 169 Zionism because it threatened to dislodge Muslims and Christians from palestine and to replace ...

170 • ChAPTEr 4 but “it is not long before they return to it and accept it.”^121 the author finds Petrie’s theory— that many few ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 171 in the biblical book of Joshua.^125 at least some al-­Muqtaṭaf­writers not only accepted the hi ...

172 • ChAPTEr 4 [the direction of prayer] of the Christians,”^129 is the subject of the only paragraph of Margoliouth’s book tha ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 173 1897, al-­Muqtaṭaf considered the prospect of a Jewish return to pal- estine. In 1895, in its “ ...

174 • ChAPTEr 4 the nations [al- umam] among which they resided as a people without a homeland or country [shaʿban­lā­waṭan­lahu ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 175 among the things that assisted the success of this house was the fact that its members were Jew ...

176 • ChAPTEr 4 of this [matter], God willing.”^140 But before ending the passage on the Zionist Organization, Makaryus adds: It ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 177 they have sat on the thrones of kings, and ruled their subjects justly for long periods of time ...

178 • ChAPTEr 4 praiseworthy” in the respective religion, “and to pay no attention to the negative.” as a result, Makaryus “neve ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 179 Certainly by 1917, well into the Great War and on the eve of the Bal- four Declaration and Brit ...

180 • ChAPTEr 4 and their captivity— both the first time, by nebuchadnezzar the Babylonian, and the second time, by titus the ro ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 181 Figure 3. Cartoon from al-­Hilāl 24 (October 1915– July 1916), 401. Figure 4. Cartoon from cove ...

182 • ChAPTEr 4 this sort of image expressed verbally in rida’s remark that Jews con- trolled France “like a ball in their hands ...

IMAGInInG ThE “ISrAElITES” • 183 al-­Hilāl’s version. Obscured, though, in al-­Hilāl­are the Yiddish words that appear on the (c ...