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Notable Palestinian Americans |
| Total population |
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| 66,333[1] |
| Regions with significant populations |
| New York, New Jersey, Michigan, California,Texas, Pennsylvania |
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Predominately Christianity, some Muslim |
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Other Palestinian people |
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. A Palestinian community of about 600 persons can be found in Gallup, New Mexico.[citation needed]
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).
Some Palestinians with American, British, and other Western passports suffer from Israeli suspicion on the grounds of security [1] and are sometimes turned away from Israeli border checkpoints.[2][3]
See also
the current relegion of palestinain americans is mainly islam
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