Did antisemitism mislead and conceal from the world's malaria community the first start anywhere of a successful national malaria elimination campaign?

Abstract

For many years, the malaria community appears to have stumbled and fumbled along in its effort to control malaria with varying results that have often been ineffective. This article makes the suggestion the malaria community has appeared to avoid studying or applying methods that are acknowledged to have been successful in Palestine 100 years ago. The article further suggests such avoidance arose due to an anti-semitic minority element in the Palestine Arab leadership in the 1920s and '30s which sought to inflame the general Palestine Arab populace against the Jews (who had initiated the malaria control) by dishonestly explaining the Arab woes in Palestine had been caused by the Jews. The article asks the question if today's anti-semitism has perpetuated the '20s and '30s Palestine anti-semitism and has thereby continued to discourage the malaria community today from openly adopting the successful anti-malaria methods employed in Palestine 100 years ago.