text: Palestinians have been oppressing Jews for centuries.
  
  In 1839, the British consul, William Young, said that the poor Jew in Jerusalem...lives from day to day in terror of his life....Young attributed the plight of the Jew in Jerusalem to “the blind hatred and ignorant prejudice of a fanatical populace,”
  
  JEWS IN JERUSALEM.
  New York Times	December 29, 1878
  Crowded together in the worst lodgings, or in the dark cellars under a synagogue building, without food, fuel, or water –even water at Jerusalem being a commodity of price – numbers died of starvation and various diseases, while others went raving mad.  Those who could labor were denied employment by the bigotry of the Mussulmans and of the Oriental Christians.
  
  Notice the date.  This was before the first Zionists arrived in Palestine.  Notice the word bigotry.