Palestine’s pre-Zionist Jews identified as Arab Jews

Evidence

The Jews in Palestine at the time considered themselves, like other Jews in the Arab world, Arab Jews – Arabs of Jewish faith (Hayoun 2019; Shenhav 2006). — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 460

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ottoman-era Jewish-Arab distinctions hardened only after Israel’s founding displaced Palestinians — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 170