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Lara Ballard

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How did the Palestinians feel about the early Zionists?

Well of St. Mary, Nazareth, January 1, 1890. Color photograph by French photographer Félix Bonfils.

In the past couple of weeks, after I posted this:

I’ve had various friends reach out and say, “Well, are you going to talk about how the...

10 days ago
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The AU Library has summer hours now

Since last week’s post,

I’ve been vexed by a question I posed in that post, which is, why did the Palestinian fellahin (peasants) put up with abuse from the Jewish farmers they worked for? Also, why were they working for 40% lower salaries...

17 days ago
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How did the early Zionists feel about Palestinian Arabs?

David Ben-Gurion, c. 1920-21. Born David Yosef Gruen in Płońsk, Poland. Unknown author. Public domain.

I’ll admit at the outset I don’t have a ready answer to this question. It’s simply one that keeps cropping up in my mind as I read the b...

24 days ago
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The NILI spy network and the Balfour Declaration

Avshalom Feinberg and Sarah Aaronsohn after his release from Ottoman imprisonment, January 1916. Unknown author. Public domain.

Last week I mentioned I have a lot of additional reading to do.

Turns out I’ve barely had time to read this we...

a month ago
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Closing a gap between 1917 and 1920

The S.S. Ruslan as it passed through Istanbul, December 1919. Public domain.

On December 19, 1919, the S.S. Ruslan, a ship that had left from Odessa, docked at Jaffa with approximately 670 passengers on board, several of them prominent Zio...

a month ago
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    Former intelligence oversight officer, now examining the historical intersection of colonialism and national security. A little obsessed with the Westphalian nation-state construct and its limitations.

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