On July 8 2009, the 80th anniversary of the Hebron massacre, Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss presented the story of Rabbi Baruch Kaplan who was a student at the Hebron Yeshiva [school] while the massacre took place. Rabbi Kaplan blames the Zionists for destroying the peaceful coexistence between the Arabs and the Jews in Palestine, claiming that they provoked the massacre that happen.
Read a free translation of a Yiddish transcript of a taped interview made some twenty years ago with the late Rabbi Baruch Kaplan, who was a principal of the Beis Yaakov Girls School in Brooklyn, and who was a student in the Hebron yeshiva (religious school) in 1929 at the time of the killing of a number of Jews by some Arabs. Rabbi Kaplan explains how events unfolded, and how it was the arrogant and cowardly Zionist maniacs who perpetrated the events by provoking the Palestinians