
Israel Front Lines
Article 7: When "Palestinian" Legally Meant a Jew — The British Mandate, the 1925 Citizenship Order, and the 1964 Rewrite
<p>In 1922 the League of Nations wrote the Mandate for Palestine. Article 7 of that document instructed Britain to pass a nationality law framed so as to facilitate the acquisition of Palestinian citizenship by Jews taking up permanent residence in Palestine.</p><p>Palestinian citizenship. By Jews. It is four lines of text, it is quoted by Palestinian legal scholars and Israeli historians alike, and it is not disputed by anyone.</p><p>This episode walks through the documents that defined who was and was not a Palestinian, in the order they were written.</p><p>We cover where the name...

