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

104 • CHAPTER 3 Mendel Kremer and the “Ishmaelites” a curious fact in this regard is that the author of many of the re- ports co ...

“CONCerNING Our ARAb QuESTIOn”? • 105 as well.^42 This impression is confirmed, it would seem, by the fact that one decade later ...

106 • CHAPTER 3 matters to the attention of the readers across palestine’s diverse Zion- ist community. Dual Labels: Muslim Arab ...

“CONCerNING Our ARAb QuESTIOn”? • 107 there is something peculiar, and noteworthy, in this editorial’s ra- cial reasoning. Chris ...

108 • CHAPTER 3 Arabs to be, by definition, Muslims.^51 We infer this assumed defini- tion not only by process of elimination— i ...

“CONCerNING Our ARAb QuESTIOn”? • 109 of peace and fraternity”^57 — he is concerned that the “Christian arab” leadership is not ...

110 • CHAPTER 3 The (welcome) antagonism between Christians and Muslims was imagined not merely in the Middle east but far beyon ...

“CONCerNING Our ARAb QuESTIOn”? • 111 but also the intellectuals who have received higher education. Now that they hear sounds o ...

112 • CHAPTER 3 whether on logical, political, cultural, or other grounds, some clearly did not consider hebrew and arab to be m ...

“CONCerNING Our ARAb QuESTIOn”? • 113 Gate. . . . It is fitting for the members of our nation (benei­ʿameinu) to give rahamim Bi ...

114 • CHAPTER 3 and, not least, spoke Arabic. Consider, for instance, the report in ha- Ẓevi about an encounter with a Jew from ...

“CONCerNING Our ARAb QuESTIOn”? • 115 but rather by “the religious hatred that they have for the Jews.”^84 In another issue of h ...

116 • CHAPTER 3 Jesus. the article reports on a public lecture Drews delivered in Berlin the previous month to an audience of “t ...

“CONCerNING Our ARAb QuESTIOn”? • 117 ha-­Poʿel­ha-­ẓaʿir­in which a Jew declared that “the New testament is our book, bone of o ...

118 • CHAPTER 3 Reports of this kind are not the exclusive domain of ha-­Ḥerut. In Feb- ruary 1909 Ben- Yehuda’s ha-­­Ẓevi publi ...

“CONCerNING Our ARAb QuESTIOn”? • 119 and as descendants of refugees from Christian religious intolerance who found safety in an ...

120 • CHAPTER 3 ha-­Ḥerut often dubs it, antisemitism— has taken root specifically within the Christian arabic press.^101 Though ...

“CONCerNING Our ARAb QuESTIOn”? • 121 rights, ceaselessly pressed and persecuted^103 by the governments and nations among which ...

122 • CHAPTER 3 in apparently derisive quotation marks^105 ) and thus were prohibited from joining the military. Ben- Gurion’s s ...

“CONCerNING Our ARAb QuESTIOn”? • 123 as ideological secularists and materialists,^108 the socialist ideologues of the Second al ...