Arab Press Continues Bitter Campaign Against the Jews

The anti-Jewish campaign is being continued in the Arab press in bitter terms. The Arab weekly, “Felestin,” which issued its first English supplement of four pages, argues that “the Arabs are as much entitled to bar the Jews from Palestine as America is to exclude the Japanese.”

“If, as Weizmann stated, a thousand Jews will take the place of every one killed in the recent disorders, the British will be obliged to post a sentry at every Jewish door, but eventually the British bayonets will be turned against the Jews. Americans had better cease sending Jews to Palestine, where loss of life and property is threatened,” the paper says.

Commenting on the articles in the supplement, the Tel Aviv Hebrew daily. “Ha’Aretz,” asks the government whether it will take any action against the Arab paper advocating bloodshed.

The last of the belongings of the Jewish victims of Hebron were brought to Jerusalem. Five truckloads were unloaded at the Boys’ School where most of the Hebron refugees are sheltered.

The Jews of Beisan are returning to their homes. An hotel proprietor and Jewish employees of the government experimental station in Beisan were the first returning inhabitants.

About 100 Jewish shopkeepers in Jerusalem have decided to move their stores to the new commercial quarter outside the Old City. Some of them were unable to pay the new rentals and they have applied to the Reconstruction Committee for loans. Several merchants who wanted to reopen their stalls in the copper market were advised against it, as this was still considered to be unsafe.

The recent events had an adverse effect on the employment of Jewish workers in the Haifa port excavations. The British officials in charge of the work at Athlit are daily hiring new Arab workers, declaring it undesirable at this stage to introduce Jewish labor in the large Arab camps. Among the 600 workers employed, there are only four Jews.