On Feb 14th USC Professor Laurie Brand - a Columbia University educated former MESA President who once hysterically predicted that Israel would commit genocide if the US invaded Iraq - said this to her 54-student undergraduate IR class:
If you remember one thing about this class, remember this - this [Israeli-Arab] conflict is not millennia old. This is not a conflict which has involved fighting between Arab and Jews for 2,000 years.
She's trivially right of course - Islam had not yet been invented 2,000 years ago, Jews actually do have the oldest historical ties to the land, etc. But what she actually means is that Jews and Muslims got along swimmingly until the 1800s, when Jews started rebuilding their continuous 2,500+ year presence in the Holy Land. According to this narrative, Muslims and Jews coexisted peacefully until the diabolical Zionists showed up and started doing evil things like building irrigation and making the fields bloom. The downtrodden local Arabs - on account of their suffering - were forced to respond with a series of atrocities that culminated in the 1948 war of extermination against the Jews of newly independent Israel:
The Arabs not only rejected the UN Partition Plan, but attacked Israel from all sides. On the day that Israel declared its independence, the Arab League Secretary, General Azzam Pasha declared "jihad", a holy war. He said, "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades".(1) The Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al Husseini stated, "I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all!" (2) The armies of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq invaded the tiny new country with the declared intent of destroying it.(3)
That's the pro-Arab narrative. And even that's bullshit on a stick:
There are short-term reasons behind the attacks on Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas. But underlying all the geo-strategy is a solid foundation of fanatical Jew-hatred, dating back to the founding of Islam... Muslim eschatology emphasizes the Jews' supreme hostility to Islam. Jews are described as adherents of the Dajjal - the Muslim equivalent of the Anti-Christ - and as per another tradition, the Dajjal is in fact Jewish. At his appearance, other traditions state that the Dajjal will be accompanied by 70,000 Jews from Isfahan wrapped in their robes, and armed with polished sabers, their heads covered with a sort of veil. When the Dajjal is defeated, his Jewish companions will be slaughtered... Thus, according to a canonical hadith (Sahih Muslim, Book 40, Number 6985), if a Jew seeks refuge under a tree or a stone, these objects will be able to speak to tell a Muslim: "There is a Jew behind me; come and kill him!"
That last charming genocidal bit was eventually incorporated into chapter 7 of the Hamas charter. Which - and we don't mean to put too fine a point on this - means that it came before the current wave of genocidal Palestinian hatred.