I don't take many people seriously when they talk about al-Khalil (or hebron) and its history because my grandpa lived and was from Al-Khalil and his dad kept a diary of his time as a teacher teaching across Palestine. But anyways I asked my grandpa once for stories about how he grew up in AlKhalil before the Nakba and he was like "my father insisted on taking me to Jewish dentists and when I'd walk home from school/activities, my Jewish neighbors would ask me to turn on their lamps for Shabbat" which sounds like not a big deal but when you put it in the context of the prevailing Israeli narrative of "Palestinians hated Jews" then you can easily disprove those claims because I have literal family stories of Medani Palestinians actually having relationships with Palestinian Jews. I'm not trying to say there were no instances or violence against Jews, there were and it'd be wrong to say otherwise, but to say that Palestinians uniformly hated Jews is wrong and many (Arab+Sephardi) Jews identified back then as Palestinian and were in community with Palestinian Muslims and Christians. So it's like when people bring up the 1929 massacre in Hebron, I know it's completely removed from any actual analysis of what Al-Khalil was like back then and the external factors that played into the massacres happening PLUS not mentioning the Muslims and Christians who were AGAINST the massacres and the forced division that was happening between the Jewish community and the nonJewish community.
