The 1929 Jaffa Riots: Bloodlines and the Wailing Wall

In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace the explosive events of August 1929, when a dispute over the Western Wall in Jerusalem ignited a violent chain reaction that tore through Palestine, leaving 133 Jews dead and 116 Arabs killed. We follow the tangled threads that led to the outbreak: the rising tide of Jewish immigration and land purchases, the growth of the Palestinian national movement under Haj Amin al-Husayni, and the British Mandate's inability to manage the escalating tensions. Along the way, we meet key figures like Ze'ev Jabotinsky and Muhammad al-Khalidi, and we examine how the violence in Hebron and Safed reshaped Jewish-Arab relations forever. The episode also unpacks the Shaw Commission's findings and the British government's reluctant admission that land and immigration policies were at the heart of the unrest. A nuanced look at a turning point that set the stage for decades of conflict.

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