Palestinian Americans are Americans of Palestinian Arab ancestry. It is difficult to say when the first Palestinian immigrants arrived at the United States; however, many of the first immigrants to arrive were Christians emigrating from Ottoman Palestine in the late 1800s, others came as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the Six Day War.
Palestinians settled down in cities like New York, Los Angeles and Detroit alongside other Arab commun...
more
Palestinian Americans are Americans of Palestinian Arab ancestry. It is difficult to say when the first Palestinian immigrants arrived at the United States; however, many of the first immigrants to arrive were Christians emigrating from Ottoman Palestine in the late 1800s, others came as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the Six Day War.
Palestinians settled down in cities like New York, Los Angeles and Detroit alongside other Arab communities such as the Lebanese and Yemenis. Monterrey, Mexico has a large population of Christian Palestinians, and a Palestinian community of about 600 persons can be found in Gallup, New Mexico.
According to the 2000 U.S.Census, there were 72,112 people of Palestinian ancestry living in the United States. However, The Arab American Institute Foundation estimates the figure at 252,000 while the Palestinian American Council puts it at 179,000 (1999).
less
