The 1834 attacks came inside a revolt against Egyptian conscription, and Egypt's army sacked Hebron

The 1834 events were the Peasants’ Revolt in Palestine, a rebellion against Egyptian conscription and taxation under Ibrahim Pasha, running May to August 1834. What triggered it was Ibrahim Pasha’s order to conscript 1 in 5 Muslim males plus new taxation categories that departed from both Ottoman and Islamic law. The rebels were peasants, urban notables and Bedouin.

The Safed attack on the Jewish community was real and it was wrong, but it happened inside a revolt against Egyptian conscription, and your second example is an Egyptian army leveling a Palestinian city.

Rabbinic Judaism emerged after 70 CE as the response to the destruction. That’s what Yavneh and the Mishnah are. Jews did bring Passover sacrifices right up to 70 CE. A compromised priesthood didn’t shut the sacrificial system down.

“More than two million Jews (30-60% of Jews worldwide)” rests on Josephus’s figures, which historians treat as heavily inflated.

You state Hillel’s principle yourself: “Jews must take all possible measures to ensure minimum harm to civilians.” Then you test Israel against it up to November 2023 and stop. Two years of war after that. The famine declaration. The death toll. The September 2025 UN Commission of Inquiry finding (A/HRC/60/CRP.3), covering October 2023 to July 2025, which found four of the five genocidal acts.

All in all, the one piece of evidence you offered for pre-Zionist Palestinian anti-Jewishness was a battle where an Egyptian army destroyed a Palestinian city.

Update after the debate. In the comments that followed I conceded two points. Rabbinic Judaism did not begin in 70 CE; it was what remained after 70. And the two million figure also takes the later wars from Cassius Dio, not from Josephus alone, though Dio’s numbers get the same caution. The whole exchange is recorded here.

First published in my Quora debunk archive.