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  • Hebron's Jewish history is bloody-and Zionists still need to embrace it

    Nicolas Nissim Touboul|Sep 13, 2019

    JERUSALEM (JTA)—On Sept. 4, Israel commemorated the 90th anniversary of the 1929 Hebron massacre, during which Arab residents slaughtered their Jewish neighbors, leading to a Jewish exodus for the next half century. Since then, Hebron has been a battleground, both literally and for the Zionist narrative. Split between heavily guarded Israeli- and Palestinian-controlled areas, the hotly contested West Bank city is home to approximately 215,000 Palestinians and about 1,000 Jews. The city where Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, and Jacob a...