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In 1947, the UN Special Commission on Palestine recommended that Jaffa be included in the planned Jewish state. Due to the large Arab majority, however, it was instead designated as an enclave of the Arab state in the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine .
JAFFA - A crowd of Arab demonstrators gathers in Central Square, Jaffa, on 27 October 1933 to protest against British policy on mass Jewish immigration to Palestine. Similar demonstrations took place in towns and cities throughout Palestine Posted by Rami Atwan
THE STORY OF JAFFA. In 1945, the city of Jaffa was the administrative capital of the Jaffa sub-district of Palestine. It had a population of 94,310, of whom 66,310 were Palestinian, and 28,000 were Jewish.
Sep 20, 2020 · History. Jaffa: The Rise and Fall of an Agrarian City. Date: September 20 2020. Author: Nadi Abusaada. “The gateway to Palestine”, as it was often called, Jaffa was the primary entryway for travellers who arrived to the country by sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Oct 14, 2020 · The colonial erasure and depopulation of Jaffa, once the vibrant Mediterranean gateway to Palestine, is evidenced in the fabric of the city, a ghost of its former self.
May 2, 2021 · Jaffa’s Palestinian Arab population described the “storm” of violence in early May 1921 as a “revolt” or “revolution” (thawra, the same word used by protesters during the Arab Spring).
Before Israel was created, Jaffa served as Palestine’s commercial hub. Its storied port has been used since Biblical times as a gateway to the Mediterranean Sea. In the 19th and early 20th...
