FUTURE OF JEWISH
The Massacre That Ignited the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Yardena Schwartz
October 16, 2024

…Ninety-five years ago, 3,000 Muslim men marched through the Jewish Quarter of Hebron: burial place of Abraham, forefather of the Jewish and Arab nations. Enflamed by a campaign of disinformation launched by the British-appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the mob went from house to house, stabbing, torturing, raping, and in some cases castrating and burning their Jewish neighbors. Over the course of two hours that morning, nearly 70 unarmed Jewish men, women and children were slaughtered. “The horror of it is beyond words,” wrote John Chancellor, the British High Commissioner of Palestine, in his diary on October 8th, 1929, after visiting Hebron, where the walls and floors of Jewish homes were still stained with blood. “I do not think history records many worse horrors in the last few hundred years.” READ MORE