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

84 • cHAPTeR 2 eternally despise them, al- Khalidi explains. In this passage, al- Khalidi does not clearly denounce this religio ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 85 The third explanation for antisemitism that al- Khalidi proposes is Russians’ alleged “raci ...

86 • cHAPTeR 2 Palestine and retrieve his or her passport from the Ottoman authorities. explaining that the Ottoman policy targe ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 87 embraced “Mendelssohn’s theory.” They have shed their particularities in all but religion, ...

88 • cHAPTeR 2 are still wandering in this gradually- expanding colony [istiʿmār­ tadrījī] on the lookout for opportunities to a ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 89 apparent opposition of the Ottoman government and the local Arab population. In both cases, ...

90 • cHAPTeR 2 Before turning to the younger al- Khalidi’s position on this issue, we must recall that he was not the only Arab ...

RUHI AL-KHALIdI’S “AS-SAYūNīZM” • 91 Zionism,^174 “Mendelssohn’s theory” and the so- called asqāmah against Jewish nationalism a ...

92 • cHAPTeR 2 Al- Khalidi treats de Hirsch’s Argentina plan sympathetically, yet he underscores its ultimate failure. In the en ...

Chapter 3 “Concerning Our Arab Question”? Competing Zionist Conceptions of palestine’s Natives I n a 1913 internal Zionist memor ...

94 • CHAPTER 3 In this chapter I explore the various ways in which Zionists of Late Ottoman palestine conceived of their non- Je ...

“CONCerNING Our ARAb QuESTIOn”? • 95 linked to the ways in which they imagined and defined their neighbors (hence the double mea ...

96 • CHAPTER 3 between the terminology Zionists used to describe their non- Jewish neighbors and the ways in which they perceive ...

“CONCerNING Our ARAb QuESTIOn”? • 97 though I have chosen these particular papers as a cross- section of the prewar Zionist comm ...

98 • CHAPTER 3 are absent from ha-­Ḥerut’s stated mission. the paper was meant to be “an important Land of Israel newspaper [ʿit ...

“CONCerNING Our ARAb QuESTIOn”? • 99 reported on a young man who drowned off the coast of Jaffa. The Jaffa correspondent refers ...

100 • CHAPTER 3 settlers in palestine.^22 The fact that the “Christians” who were seeking the hebrew word for “stationery” are n ...

“CONCerNING Our ARAb QuESTIOn”? • 101 Jew. “One hour later,” however, “the rumors had changed.” In fact, the victim was not a Je ...

102 • CHAPTER 3 Muslims; that they were also arabs often seems irrelevant or unwor- thy of mention. But not always, to be sure. ...

“CONCerNING Our ARAb QuESTIOn”? • 103 is freedom [ḥuriyya] today!” The author of this report asks rhetori- cally: “Where are the ...