Figure 1.--These are modern Palestinian Scouts. They look like the Cub age group, but there may not be a destinctive vuniform for the Cubs. The photograph is undated, but was probably taken about 2010. |
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We do see some uniformed youth groups, mostly Scouts and Guides. We do not yet have much information on youth movements in the Middle East, including Palestine. The Scouting movement ws sharply splintered along religious lines, in part because the school system inherited from the Ottimans was structured in that way. We have some limited informtion on the Ottoman era. Scouting activity began during the last years of the Ottoman era (1912). There was limited youth group activity. We also have begun to work on youth groups during the British Mandate period. There was a very significant expansion of youth groups during this period. The British significantly expanded the state school system. The British involvement in Palistinian education meant that Palestine had the strongest Scout movemenent in the Middle East. And Arab Muslim Scouting troops were organized in many of the new schools. A factor here was the very active youth group programs pursued by the Jews in Palestine. We have some limited information about Palestinian Scouts. The YMCA was also active fir Chrustian boys. .
We do see some uniformed youth groups, mostly Scouts and Guides. We do not yet have much information on youth movements in the Middle East, including Palestine. The Scouting movement ws sharply splintered along religious lines, in part because the school system inherited from the Ottimans was structured in that way. We have some limited informtion on the Ottoman era. Scouting activity began during the last years of the Ottoman era (1912). There was limited youth group activity. We also have begun to work on youth groups during the British Mandate period. There was a very significant expansion of youth groups during this period. The British significantly expanded the state school system. The British involvement in Palistinian education meant that Palestine had the strongest Scout movemenent in the Middle East. And Arab Muslim Scouting troops were organized in many of the new schools.
The pricipal youth group in Palestine as the Boy Scouts and to a lesser extent the Girl Guides. A major factor here was the impressive expansion of the public school system by the British. Scouting activity began during the Ottoman era, but we do not see really large numbers of Plestinian Scouts until the British Mandate because of the huge expansion of schooling by the British. Quite a number of these schools sponsored Scout ad Guide troops. Another factor here was the very active youth group programs pursued by the Jews in Palestine. We have some limited information about Palestinian Scouts. Scouting comtinues in Palestine, although perhaps not with the same enthusism of th Mandate era. The YMCA and YWCA was also active and still are in both Plestine (West Bank) and Israel. (We are not sure about Hamas dominated Gaza.) We do not have much historical information on the Palstinin YMCA. The Y in Israel today promotes reconcilition between religious groups. The Y in the West Bank does some good work, but is highly politicized with internet postings promoting the standard Palestinian issues. Its activities are limited by the seadily falling Christian presence on the West Bank as aesult of Islamic militancy. It is largely supported by the Interntional YMCA which has taken anti-Israel positions, despite the Y's general practice of refraining from political involvement. The International YMCA based in Geneva both finances the Paestinian Y and sharply criticizes Israeli violence and simply ignores Arab violence and astonishly the plight of Christians in Palestine and the Arab world in general.
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