1921 Jaffa riots 100 years on: Mandatory Palestine's 1st 'mass casualty' event
Illustrative: Jewish families flee Arab rioting in Jerusalem's Old City in August 1929. (Public domain) Palestinian Arabs gather at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, in an anti-Zionist demonstration on March 8, 1920, prior to the Nabi Musa holiday on which violent rioting took place. (Public domain) Illustrative: Then-British Home Secretary Winston Churchill on a visit to the British Mandate of Palestine in March 1921, nearly three decades before it became the Jewish state. (Churchill Museum) Then-British Home Secretary Winston Churchill with Sir Herbert Samuel during a visit to Jerusalem in M...
Source: timesofisrael.com