Palestinian TV says Arabs "welcomed Jews with water and oranges" and Jews betrayed them. Ummmm...no.

From Palestinian Media Watch:

Official PA TV host: “How was the expulsion (i.e., the Nazi genocide) of the Jews carried out? German [Nazi] Minister of Propaganda Goebbels, together with Hitler, disseminated that the Jews are like rats: They spread diseases, rob the wealth of Germany, and must be expelled... They reached the land of Palestine hungry, sick, lacking everything, infected with typhus and malaria. We gave them fresh water to drink and fed them oranges, and they betrayed the hand that was extended to help them....In Palestine there were only very few Jews who arrived fleeing diseases, hunger, and fear. The people of Palestine welcomed them at the ports of Haifa and Jaffa, and they began to live here. But in 1929 [the Arabs] discovered that they were not people escaping who wanted to find refuge among the Palestinian people, but rather they are a colonialist project that wants to kill the Palestinians.”

Were Jews welcomed by Arabs before 1929?

Well, not according to Arab media at the time.

"Sowt Ashaab," quoted in the Palestine Bulletin of February 25, 1925, complains that Britain and the US restrict Jewish immigration, but the British authorities in Palestine continue to encourage Jews to immigrate. "When will England close the doors to Jewish immigration to Palestine? All Palestinian Arabs ask that question," it wrote.

In May, the paper quoted "Filastin" about the dangers of selling land to Jews in Qalqilya:

The October 21, 1925 edition quoted another Arab paper, Carmel, decrying the fact that some Arabs are selling and renting real estate to the Jews that are supposedly being welcomed. (Notice that they say that the threat is not only to Palestinian Arabs but to the entire Arab world.)

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