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There are around 160,000 Palestinian American refugees according to the 2023 American Community Survey, making up around 0.05% of the U.S. population. The Palestinian community is concentrated in the Chicago , New York City , [ 2 ] Philadelphia , Houston , and Detroit metropolitan areas, with other populations in the Los Angeles and San ...
As of 2013, the Chicago area has the largest Palestinian American population in the U.S., and that Chicago-area Palestinian-origin people made up 25% of all Palestinian-originating persons in the U.S. [59] In 1995 there were 85,000 persons of Palestinian origin in the Chicago area, making up about 60% of the Arab Americans there; at that time ...
The early years of Chicago coincided with the significant rise in Irish immigration in the 1830s and 1840s. Some Irish already lived in Chicago when it was incorporated as a city in 1837. In the next few years Irish numbers grew rapidly, particularly after the arrival of refugees from the Great Famine. By 1850 Irish immigrants accounted for ...
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The revelation that U.N. staff members participated in October 7 is the latest in a string of controversies.
In addition to the more than 700 000 Palestinian refugees of 1948, hundreds of thousands were also displaced in the 1967 Six-Day War. In fact, after 1967, a number of young Palestinian men were encouraged to migrate to South America. [7] Together, these 1948 and 1967 refugees make up the majority of the Palestinian diaspora.
The Palestinian right of return [a] is the political position or principle that Palestinian refugees, both first-generation refugees (c. 30,000 to 50,000 people still alive as of 2012) [3] [4] and their descendants (c. 5 million people as of 2012), [3] have a right to return and a right to the property they themselves or their forebears left ...