Today marks the 96th anniversary of the Hebron Massacre – when 67 Jews were murdered by their Arab neighbours. Tensions had been rising between Jews and Arabs in British Mandate Palestine throughout the summer of 1929. Jewish immigration was increasing, and Arab nationalist leaders responded with incitement. False rumours were spread that Jews planned to seize the Al-Aqsa Mosque. On August 23–24, 1929, mobs of local Arabs, joined by men from nearby villages, stormed Hebron – a city whose Jewish