| ID | 190326 |
| Title Proper | Perceptions of the Committee of Union and Progress in the press of the Yishuv, 1909-1914 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Tezcan, Selim |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The policies of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) towards Zionism and Jewish immigration and settlement in Palestine have already been considered in the scholarly literature. The other side of the issue, however, namely how the Yishuv itself regarded the CUP and its policies in general, has not been the subject of a systematic examination. The present study attempts to explore this question by a reading of five different Hebrew newspapers published in Palestine during the period 1909–1914. The findings indicate that the newspapers of the Second Aliyah immigrants and the Orthodox Ashkenazim were more supportive of the CUP than those of the Sephardim and especially the First Aliyah immigrants, depending on the different priorities of each sector within the Yishuv. Regardless of these differences, however, and in spite of the Yishuv’s growing disillusionment with the Unionists already observed by the existing literature, all the newspapers considered here ultimately gave preference to the CUP over the opposition. Among their reasons for this preference were its lack of overt hostility to the Jews and the Yishuv, its identity as the mainstay of the constitutional regime, and its relative superiority in terms of qualified staff, coherence, and socio-economic programmes. |
| `In' analytical Note | British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 50, No.2; May 2023: p.300-320 |
| Journal Source | British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Vol: 50 No 2 |