In October 2023, the image of a page from the reference book on which the white and white flag with the star of David was signed as Palestine spread in social networks. The authors of many posts argue that this was the official flag of Palestine before the Second World War. We decided to check if this is so.
Against the backdrop of the war of Israel with the Palestinian group of Hamas in social networks, the table of the late 1930s with the flags of the countries of the world began to spread, among which there are supposedly pre-war flag of Palestine with a six-pointed star. In particular, this illustration was published by Telegram channels "Lost past"(101,000 views at the time of writing this analysis)"Carginism dispersion | Israel war"(56,000)," Kucher "(30,000) and"People for Israel | War"(25,000). Also, the image was actively distributed by users social networks X (former Twitter) and Facebook.
During the First World War, Palestine and other territories in the Middle East were part of the Ottoman Empire under the control of the British army. In 1922, Great Britain Got a mandate from the League of Nations to Palestine Management, including in order to execute Balfour declaration - The obligation of the British government to ensure the "creation of a national center for the Jewish people."
The mandatory Palestine existed until 1948, when the state of Israel was created. All this time, the only official symbol of the territory was the British flag.
Another flag that has been posted since 1932 at official events is the standard of the Supreme Commissioner of Palestine: his seal over the British flag.
Finally, on British ships in the dandem Palestine, fodder flags were raised - red And blue: The first is on merchant ships, the second - on customs and postal.
No other flags were allowed. In 1925 a newspaper Filastin, representing the interests of the Palestinian Arabs, published an article in which she complained about violating these rules by Jews. The reason was the football match, held in Jerusalem on January 12, 1925, in which the Hakoah team from Vienna participated. The players of the Austrian club entered the field under the flag, which the Arab newspaper called Zionist-a blue and white cloth with the star of David.
According to the article, the governor of Jerusalem and the district of Jaffa answered the complaint: “This is the flag - Club, the Hakoah team, whose colors coincide with the Zionist flag. Obviously, the flag of the Hakoah club is not a state flag. " Nevertheless, the end of the publication calls for the authorities of the mandatory territory either to allow all the flags - both Jewish and Arabic - either, as it should be according to the law, to allow a demonstration of only the British flag.
Where did the flag with the star of David come from in the table distributed in social networks? This is really a page from a French illustrated dictionary Larousse 1939.
The blue and white flag of Palestine with the star of David in this dictionary appeared in 1932 and did not change before the publication of 1941 inclusive. The presented tables are distinguished by many inaccuracies: for example, in the 1936 publication it is indicated that the German flag is an imperial black-white-red (and not red with a swastika in a white circle), and on the flag of the USSR-the letters of the RSFSR (and not a sickle and a hammer, approved in 1924).
In the 1920-1930s, blue and white colors in combination with the Golden Star became the main symbols of the Zionist movement. In 1934 a magazine National Geographic Published a photograph of the Emanuel ship, whose team raised a very similar flag. The crew of this trade ship consisted of Jews, Emanuel ran between Europe and Palestine.
But even then the British Admiralty released A special order, which indicated that such a flag that has not been related to any of the existing states cannot be officially posted in the sea.
Before the formation of the state, Israel existed Many options The flags of the Zionist movement, but all known evidence fixes either white cloths with thin blue stripes, or flags of two stripes located horizontally. Larousse flag is the only one with vertical stripes.
Thus, two main conclusions can be drawn. Firstly, the flag with the star of David was never official in the dandective Palestine, before the proclamation of the Jewish state in 1948. Secondly, the flag from the pre-war editions of the Larousse dictionary does not correspond to any of the well-known copies and, most likely, only reflects the most general idea of the table of the table about how the symbolism of the Jewish Palestine may look.
Photo on the cover: social networks
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