1913: Seeds of Conflict

The social forces that fueled the rise of Jewish and Arab nationalism in pre-WWI Palestine are detailed in this documentary, which includes remarks from scholars as well as re-enactments that feature dialogue taken from contemporaneous reports. Muslims, Christians and Jews lived in peace in Palestine, which was under Ottoman rule, during most of the 19th century. Tensions heightened, however, due to an influx of Eastern European and Russian Jews; and then erupted at a Rehovot vineyard in 1913.