Rural Reactions to Zionist Activity in Palestine before and after the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 as Reflected in Petitions to Istanbul

Ben-Bassat, Yuval

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“…The content of these petitions was strikingly consistent with the themes identified in the historiography. Most notably, petitioners nearly always invoked the idea that they had a direct relationship with the central state, appealing to Istanbul to go over the heads of intermediaries by intervening in local disputes (Chalcraft 2007, Ben Bassat 2013b.…”

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“…In historiographical terms, the study of petitioning has been commensurate with the drive to examine 'history from below'. Social historians have thus looked at how petitions record the voices of subaltern groups, such as women (Schmidt Blaine 2001, Alozie 2019), Indigenous peoples (O'Brien 2018), and rural peasant communities (Chalcraft 2005, Ben Bassat 2013b. Studies have proliferated on the use of petitions to engage with and contest state policy in settings ranging from rural hinterlands (Doumani 1995, Chalcraft 2005 to colonised regions (Swarnalatha 2001, O'Brien 2018, Alozie 2019 to provincial governments (Schmidt Blaine 2001).…”

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Petitioning for Palestine: refugee appeals to international authorities

Irfan¹

2020

Contemporary Levant

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In the second half of the twentieth century, stateless Palestinian refugees regularly submitted petitions to international authorities, particularly the UN. In these petitions, the refugees demanded their rights and invoked the UN's liberal internationalist discourse to assert the justice of their cause. This article explores what these petitions reveal about contentious politics among the Palestinian grassroots in the refugee camps. In so doing, it recasts Palestinian refugee camp communities as actors consciously engaged with international politics, and key drivers in internationalising the 'Question of Palestine'. By unpacking the petitions' internationalist aspects, the article also situates Palestinian refugee history within the broader context of postwar global governance. Finally, the analysis presented here challenges the state-centrism of existing historiography on petitioning, which examines the practice largely in relation to the growth of the state. By contrast, the case study of Palestinian petitioning shows that the practice can also be important in a setting of statelessness. This article therefore makes a series of contributions to understanding not only Palestinian political history, but also the practice of petitioning and the dynamics of postwar internationalism.

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Petitioning for Palestine: refugee appeals to international authorities

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2020

Contemporary Levant

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“…13 While the complex and multifaceted interactions of the residents of villages depopulated in the Late Ottoman period with the newly arrived Jewish (and later Zionist) immigrants undoubtedly had a major influence on the formative episodes of the developing Zionist-Palestinian conflict, they are rarely attested to in surviving written sources. 14 Therefore, tracing, documenting and historically contextualizing oral histories of descendants of residents of such villages is vital both for recovering the lost life-stories of their ancestors, and for understanding how such local narratives developed, influenced and were influenced in turn, by prevailing Arab-Palestinian and Zionist national narratives. 15 The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies since June 9, 2021 at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13530194.2021.1934817…”

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The Abu Hameds of Mulabbis: an oral history of a Palestinian village depopulated in the Late Ottoman period

Marom

2021

British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

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Late Ottoman period) of their independent place in Palestinian social, cultural and political history. Although the name of Mulabbis does figure in Palestinian historiography, it is surprising to discover that the history of the village has yet to be studied in any detail. The great Palestinian educator and geographer Mustafa al-Dabbagh, the author of the comprehensive encyclopedia Biladuna Filistin ("Our country of Palestine"), refers to Mulabbis only as a parcel of land (al-buq a al-ma rūfa bi-sm…Mulabbis ʿ ʿ ). 5 Al-Mawsu a al-ʿ Filistiniyya ("The Palestinian Encyclopedia") notes that Mulabbis was an Arab village that preceded the establishment of Petah Tikva, but in contrast to its treatment of most other villages, it does not devote a separate entry to it. 6 Mulabbis is also missing from All That Remains, Walid Khalidi and Sharif al-Musa's book about Palestinian villages depopulated in 1948. 7 As of March 2021, Mulabbis is absent from sites dedicated to the history of depopulated Palestinian villages, such as Palestine Remembered and Zochrot. Nearly nothing is known about the Arab residents of Mulabbis from published Palestinian or Western scholarship, neither is any alternative reading of its past offered. 8 This regretful state of research is illustrative of the rest of the Arab villages fully depopulated during the Ottoman period like al-Mutilla (Metulla), Yamma (Yavniʾel), Masha (Kefar Tavor), Deiran (Rehovot), Karkur, al-Burj and al-Zurghaniyya (Binyamina), al-Marah (Givʿat ʿAda), al-Khudeira (Hadera), Dardara (Gan Shemuʾel), Umm al-Tut (Bat Shelomo), Shfeyya and Zummarin (Zichron Yaʿakov) (see figure 1). As part of Jewish stateenforced regimes of truth, control of knowledge, and public remembrance, the physical remains of many Palestinian villages had been expunged, and archival sources pertaining to them, and to their inhabitants' expulsion, had been closed for access by Israeli authorities. 9

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Fanning the flames: Rainfall shocks, inter‐ethnic income inequality, and conflict intensification in Mandate Palestine

Panza

Swee

2023

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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Rural Reactions to Zionist Activity in Palestine before and after the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 as Reflected in Petitions to Istanbul

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Petitioning for Palestine: refugee appeals to international authorities

Petitioning for Palestine: refugee appeals to international authorities

The Abu Hameds of Mulabbis: an oral history of a Palestinian village depopulated in the Late Ottoman period

Fanning the flames: Rainfall shocks, inter‐ethnic income inequality, and conflict intensification in Mandate Palestine

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