  > Links to a page that shows the exact opposite

This isn't Reddit. Many people here actually do read sources. All the censuses in the decades before the fall of the Ottoman empire show a Jewish majority. And for the century preceding that, the censuses flipped back and forth.

  > Isn't that exactly what happened, i.e. Israel declared half of the land "Jewish land" and proceeded to ethnically cleans 800 thousand palestinians with whom they had been living side by side in the previous decades?

No. The UN designated the malaria-infested marshes Israeli (not Jewish) and the majority of the rest Arab (not Muslim, not Palestinian, and not Egyptian or Jordanian). The Arab states rejected this, and opened a war with the newly formed Israel. Many Israeli leaders pleaded with the Arab residents not to heed the Arab states' calls to evacuate. The situation in Haifa is well documented, I know this from living with Arabs in Haifa two decades ago. They tell how the Haifa mayor pleaded with their families to remain in 1948.

▲ throw310822 10 hours ago | parent [-]

> This isn't Reddit. Many people here actually do read sources.

Exactly. The Ottoman rule of Palestine spans 400 years, and the graph at the top of the page you linked shows that Jews became a majority in Jerusalem only at the very end of it, following zionist immigration at the end of the 19th century.

> The UN designated the malaria-infested marshes Israeli (not Jewish)

The problem is that this isn't reddit and people actually read the sources. This is the text of the Partition Plan:

"Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem, set forth in Part III of this Plan, shall come into existence..."

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/res181.asp

▲ loandbehold 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why do you have such a problem with Zionist immigration that made Jerusalem a Jewish-majority city? It was legal immigration allowed by Ottoman Empire. Do you see Muslims immigrating to Europe in the same light? Many previously "white" cities in Europe are now Muslim. Should Europeans call it "Muslim occupation of white land"? That sounds pretty racist. Why double standard?

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throw310822 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah no, I have no problem with it, as much as Palestinians had little problem with the tens, and then hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants to their land.

Of course if the UN were suddenly to declare that half of my country is now assigned to them only to build their, say, Arab state- then I would be quite pissed. Wouldn't you?

	▲	UltraSane an hour ago \| parent [-]
		"their land." It wasn't "their" land, it was Ottoman land and they let Jews migrate there because Jews paid for the land.

▲ dotancohen 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

From Wikipedia:

  > The First Aliyah, also known as the agriculture Aliyah, was a major wave of Jewish immigration (aliyah) to Ottoman Palestine between 1881 and 1903 ... An estimated 25,000 Jews immigrated.

Jerusalem was already Jewish majority before 1881. And the large waves of the movement were towards the end, not towards the beginning.

	▲	throw310822 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, as we said, zionist immigration to Palestine began at the end of the 19th century. Nothing to do with the small historical Jewish population of Palestine or Jerusalem.