GROUND ZERO OF A CENTURY-OLD WAR - YARDENA SCHWARTZ

GROUND ZERO OF A CENTURY-OLD WAR

YARDENA SCHWARTZ / Ghosts of a Holy War: the 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict

In Conversation

Long before the State of Israel was born, British Mandate Palestine was the scene of one of the worst pogroms ever perpetrated outside of Europe. The 1929 massacre of the ancient Jewish community of Hebron, the burial place of Abraham, was one of the most seminal events in the Arab-Israeli conflict —until Hamas’s gruesome massacre of October 7, 2023. One century apart, the echoes of 1929 in 2023 are key to understanding the complexities of what is, at its core, a holy war between Abraham’s children.

YARDENA SCHWARTZ is an award-winning freelance journalist and Emmy-nominated producer. She lived in Israel from 2013 – 2023, reporting for various publications, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TIME, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and National Geographic. She previously worked at NBC News. Yardena lives in Rhinebeck, NY.

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