Georges BENSOUSSAN POGROMS IN PALESTINE BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL

As a result, note the two authors of the A Glossary of Islam, a two-tier society was created: "on the one hand, the level of the masters, distinguished above all by their membership of Islam, and on the other, the level of non-Muslims, who did not enjoy the same rights2". [...] In Jerusalem, as is often the case in the Arab- Muslim area, the Jewish condition was marked by a climate of humiliation and widespread fear, as witnessed in the nineteenth century by the Jewish traveler Abraham Yaari in his book Voyages en Eretz- Israel5: "The Arabs are violently hostile to the Jews, and persecute the children of Israel in the streets of the city. [...] THE DECLINE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE RISE OF ISLAMIC ANTI-ZIONISM Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, which had allied itself to the Central Powers during the Great War, its Arab territories fell under the control of the United Kingdom and France. [...] 17 Pogroms in Palestine before the creation of the state of Israel (1830-1948) In the spring of 1929, following the Yom Kippur incident of the previous year, the Grand Mufti escalated his own provocations against the Jews. [...] To further disrupt the prayers of the faithful, the Grand Mufti had an entrance carved into one of the walls adjacent to the Esplanade of the Mosques (Temple Mount), effectively transforming the holiest of Jewish prayer sites into a squalid, cacophonous corridor, littered with refuse and frequented by the mules of Muslim merchants.