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Jaffa in Ruins

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June 1936

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Institute for Palestine Studies, Photograph Collection

As a punitive measure against the Palestinians, the British military blew up large sectors of the Old City of Jaffa , ostensibly for "town-planning purposes." To his credit the chief justice of Palestine, Michael F. J. McDonnell , chastised the government for throwing "dust in people's eyes by professing to be inspired with aesthetic or quasi-philanthropic motives." His Honor was subsequently relieved of his post.

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