Palestinian resistance to Jewish immigration was grounded in colonial grievance, not mere Jew-hatred

Evidence

The 1930s saw a series of Arab revolts against the influx of Jewish migrants to Palestine, which was then under British control. This wave of Jewish immigration was regarded by many Palestinians as a colonial imposition, a perception that was further cemented when British troops and local police put down the Arab uprising with tremendous force, fueling further resentment. When Palestine was partitioned in 1947, a move with overwhelming Arab opposition, and Israel declared statehood the next year, the first Arab-Israeli war was locked in. These were the years that Palestinians call the Nakba, or catastrophe: roughly 750,000 Palestinians were expelled, hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed, and thousands were killed, with many of the horrifying truths about these atrocities finally escaping Israel’s own Shadow Lands in recent years. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 966

Categorization

• XREF: Shadows/extremes language ‘Shadow Lands’ echoes Klein’s core metaphor from earlier chapters; the historical summary feeds the doubling device by contrasting the Nakba with Holocaust framing. — connects to: Palestinians perceived Zionism as settler-colonial displacement from its outset — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 446