Palestinian surnames tell a story!

September 12, 2025 | 9 Comments »

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  1. n 1697-8 Adriaan REland’s expert assistants made a census of over 2500 town cities and villages, all mentioned in the torah, although the names were meaninglessly Arabised. They cited occupations, products etc, in Hebrew, Latin, Aramaic, and Greek.

    They found only ONE Srab family of approx 120 on the coast, the rest predominantly JEWS, some Christians a few Samaritans A few nomad Bedouins.

    Only one Arab origin village, although deserted was Ramallah.

    He’d started out for Palestine himself, but was recalled on reaching Constantinople because of his father’s eventually fatal illness. So his assistants went on without him’

    Hewas a world renowned Cartographer ana Semitic Scholar with the Leyden University Semitics Chair for life.

    I spoke with and have still correspondence with a few Reland expert professors in Leyden on the occasion of the 200the anniversity of Relaand’s death when they held a 2 month symposium on his works.
    They all said he was know for the most neticulous, accurate work checed, double and triple checked.

  3. I do know of one genuinely “Palestinian” name “Nabulsi,” mean “man of Nablus:, the Arab name for Shechem. But that is a rarity . Kedar is right that most “Palestinian” family names with a geographic reference reference locations in other countries. The Arabs never even had a concept of a country called “Palestine” before the British created this territory in 1917 (or was it 1920 or 1922 when it was given some kind of legal status.)

  4. @ peloni. Thanks for reminding me of Dr. Kedar’s name. A truly great man.

    I wish his emirates plan for the “West Bank” could be implemented. Unfortunately, due to the opposition of the great powers and the UN, it probably cannot be.

  6. How many British records survive? In particular the 1932 census
    and the cards of the immigration emigraton control that were filled in by legal travellers on entry or exit the Mandate’s borders?
    These names should be put through a computer to sort them by origins (and trades) and then mapped to wave at “international media ” cameras.

  7. On this day in 1988, in Algiers, the Palestine National Council proclaimed the  Declaration of Independence where it affirmed: “The State of Palestine is the state of Palestinians wherever they may be…

    😀 Well, that sort of solves the question of borders. Apparently, it’s a kind of dream state of consciousness. Nightmare, rather.

    https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1653405

    In Chile, Christians who fled there from the Levant in the 1850sare calling themselves, “Palestinians.” T the time, they were called, “Turkos.”

  8. Could someone remind me of the name of the great Jew who is speaking in this film clip? My mind is so failing from senility that I can’t remember it, even though I do remember his enormous contributions to understanding the contemporary Middle East, and defending Israel from the libels and false stereotypes which nearly the entire world now believes as a result of decades of slick Arab, Islamic and Soviet propaganda.