Mick Hartley

Rabbi Poupko:

Here’s the truth about Haifa Palestinian revisionists do not want you to know:

In 1890 there were less than 6,000 people living in Haifa. They were contained within the walls of the old city of Haifa.

In 1891 Jews from Syria, Lebanon, and Morocco purchased a huge amount of land outside the walls of the city and the land became known as ‘Ard El Yahood’ ارض اليهود which literally means the land of the Jews.

Since the Zionist movement came to the city the population exploded, reaching close to 100,000 by 1948.

Many non-jewish people from lebanon, syria, egypt, and beyond emigrated to the city to benefit from its booming Zionist economy.

In 1948 as the Palestinian nationalist Arab Liberation Army planned it’s invasion and annihilation of Haifa’s Jewish community, many of the residents who today call themselves Palestinian refugees simply returned to their families in Lebanon and Syria. Today they call it the Nakba, when they in fact left on their own accord.

Either way, like much of the land of Israel, it was in fact build by the Jews.

Like always, I encourage everyone to fact check this since these are basic facts that are well documented.