TOPIC · 11 FACT CHECKS
Land and migration: who came from where, and 1948
CONTEXT'Palestinians existed before Zionism'TRUE1922 census: about 11% JewishCONTEXT1931 census: 2% of Muslims were born abroadTRUEAlgerians, Circassians, Bosnians settled here tooFALSEIsraeli leaders were all born in EuropeCONTEXTIsraelis come from everywhere: immigration numbersTRUEIt takes a decade to get your papersMISLEADINGJewish immigration was a free-for-allTRUELink: the leadership said no to the 1947 UN planFALSEOnly a few hundred Jews lived there around 1840CONTEXTPeel 1937: ~9/10 of Arab growth was births