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Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929

Hillel Cohen, translated by Haim Watzman, Brandeis University Press, 2015

An academic history of the countrywide riots that swept Mandatory Palestine in August 1929, reading the violence in Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed as the year the modern Arab-Israeli conflict took its lasting shape. Draws on the Shaw Commission's own investigation, contemporary press and archival testimony from both communities.

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Author

Hillel Cohen 1

Publisher

Brandeis University Press 1

Publication Year

2015 1

Source Type

academic monograph 1

Assessment

Reliability Tier

1 1

A peer-reviewed academic history by a historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, published by a university press and drawing directly on the Shaw Commission's own investigative record alongside archival testimony from both the Jewish and Arab communities involved.

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Hebron

This source names Hebron directly: "reading the violence in Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed as the year the modern Arab-Israeli conflict took its lasting shape."

Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition

Palestine

This source names Palestine directly: "countrywide riots that swept Mandatory Palestine in August 1929, reading the violence in Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed as the year the modern Arab-Israeli conflict took its lasting shape."

Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition

Safed

This source names Safed directly: "the violence in Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed as the year the modern Arab-Israeli conflict took its lasting shape."

Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition

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1. Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition

Claims Backed By This Source (31 claims)

This source backs 31 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 5 connected. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

Wars & Conflicts, 17 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 3 connected, 1 general references.
Articles, 14 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.