Vastustavatko palestiinalaiset väestönvaihtoa?

I’m sorry to disappoint you, but you’re grinding complete bullshit. Jewish immigrants were specifically not allowed to settle in the territory of Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Ottoman Policy and Restrictions on Jewish Settlement in Palestine 1881-1908

Periodisation in history is arbitrary, but for the Jews of Imperial Russia, already an unhappy community, the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 ushered in a painful new era. The pogroms after his death were followed by the notorious May Laws of 1882 which stepped up economic discrimination against the Jews. The stirring among the Jewish community, both physical and intellectual, was heightened. Many more of them started to leave, mainly for America, and not a few began to think seriously about Jewish nationalism, with the result that the Lovers of Zion

Movement gained momentum. Some of them, whether for reasons of sheer physical safety or nationalism or a combination of both, thought of finding a home in the Ottoman Empire. The Sublime Porte was well-informed of these trends and of their contagious effects on other Jews, especially in Austro-Hungary, from the start. What is more, the Porte decided to oppose Jewish settlement in Palestine in autumn 1881, some months before the increased flow of Jews in that direction got under way.

’Palestine’, for the purpose of this, is used to mean the area referred to in contemporary Ottoman parlance and documents as ’Arzi Filistin’, which at the end of the nineteenth century was not a single administrative unit but was made up of the Mutasarriflik of Jerusalem to the south and the Sancaks of Nablus and Acre in the north; these Sancaks were part of the Vilayet of Sam (’Syria’) until 1888, whereafter they were incorporated into the new Vilayet of Beirut).

On examination, the Porte’s awareness of trends among the Jews of Eastern Europe was not as surprising as it may seem at first sight. Given the aggressive intentions throughout the nineteenth century of Russia and Austro-Hungary on the Ottoman Empire, the Porte had good reason to try to keep abreast of events in those rival empires. Thus, inter alia, its diplomatic representatives in St. Petersburg and Vienna reported regularly on Jewish affairs, and there is even a file in the catalogues of the Ottoman Foreign Ministry, listed under Russia, entitled Situation of the Jews; Question of their Immigration into Turkey: 1881.

Moreover, there had been some direct approaches to the Sublime Porte on this matter. In 1879 Laurence Oliphant, an English writer, traveller and mystic, had submitted a scheme to settle Jews on the east bank of the River Jordan. In 1881 a group of English and German businessmen sent a representative to negotiate with the Government for a concession to build a railway from Smyrna to Baghdad, along the length of which they proposed to settle Jews.

Their representative saw the Foreign Minister who, according to Reuter’s reports, was in favour of Jewish immigration into the Empire. The Council of Ministers considered the question and in November 1881 it was announced that:
Jewish immigrants will be able to settle as scattered groups throughout. Turkey, excluding Palestine. They must submit to all the laws of the Empire and become Ottoman subjects.

With growing numbers of Russian Jews applying to the Ottoman Consul-General at Odessa for visas to enter Palestine, the following notice was posted outside his office a few months later, on April 28, 1882:
The Ottoman Government informs all Jews wishing to immigrate into Turkey that they are not permitted to settle in Palestine. They may immigrate into the other provinces of the Empire and settle as they wish, provided only that they become Ottoman subjects and accept the obligation to fulfil the laws of the Empire.

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The Jews’ own story of Pre-State Israel: Under Ottoman Rule (1517 – 1917) is not true, but nonsense edited to suit the Zionists’ wishes in the narrative.