— Ethan B. Katz and Lisa Moses Leff and Maud S. Mandel and Colette Zytnicki and Daniel J. Schroeter and Tara Zahra and David Feldman and Adam Mendelsohn and Susannah Heschel and Israel Bartal and Derek J. Penslar and Joshua Cole and Elizabeth F. Thompson and and Frances MalinoThe argument that Zionism aspired from the start to displace the local population points to the Zionist national institutions’ assiduous purchase of Arab-owned land and restrictive access to it to Jews alone. Indeed, there are many documented cases, from the turn of the century through the 1930s, of Jewish land purchases causing the displacement of Palestinian peasants; yet the overall dimensions of the phenomenon are difficult to determine, as is the overall importance of displacement as opposed to other factors in the movement of Palestinian laborers from the countryside to the cities during the mandate period.
Replicated under Fair Use from Colonialism and the Jews (The Modern Jewish Experience) by Ethan B. Katz and Lisa Moses Leff and Maud S. Mandel and Colette Zytnicki and Daniel J. Schroeter and Tara Zahra and David Feldman and Adam Mendelsohn and Susannah Heschel and Israel Bartal and Derek J. Penslar and Joshua Cole and Elizabeth F. Thompson and and Frances Malino.