Palestinian Arabs accepted Semitic kinship while rejecting political brotherhood

Evidence

British censors reported a Palestinian Arab response to Eberlin (they did not specify who, unfortunately), which declared: ‘We don’t deny that the Arabs and the Jews are two branches issuing from this tree and that they are united by kinship and language, but we do deny that there is anything else in common.’ — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 695

Categorization

• SEED: This terse 1918 rebuttal is a perfect anchor for an essay on how racial kinship claims get accepted and then neutralized by the group they’re meant to recruit.
• DEEPTHINKING: In one sentence, the Palestinian respondent detaches genealogy from politics — an elegant, almost philosophical dissolution of the entire Romantic race-nation premise.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 695