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3 unusual facts about Joseph Schechtman


Joseph Schechtman

Walid Khalidi attributes to Schechtman the position, which Khalidi regards as groundless, that the Palestinian people fled their towns and villages in 1948 in response to Arab broadcasts advising them to do so.

Schechtman emigrated to the United States in the summer of 1941, and soon became part of the 'inner circle' of the New Zionist Organization of America (NZOA).

Maximos V Hakim

Joseph Schechtman in his 1949 publication book The Arab Refugee Problem quotes Hakim's comment to Karl Baehr, the then Executive Secretary of the American Christian Palestine Committee.



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