Shaw Commission Report on al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances

The Mandate authorities remove all reference to the maintenance area hitherto guaranteed to tenants, which – although it wasn’t strictly enforced - limited the ability of the landowner to dispose of...

The British Authorities set up a commision of inquiry (the Shaw Commission ) to inquire into the immediate causes that had led to the al-Buraq Uprising / Western Wall disturbances, and to make...

The timing of the ordinance constitutes another British response to the disturbances at al-Buraq.

About 300 women representing various parts of Palestine meet in Jerusalem in the first Palestine Arab Women's Congress, in the wake of al-Buraq/ Western Wall clashes in August and the repressive...

At the initiative of the Palestine Arab Workers Society (PAWS), 61 delegates representing 3,020 workers take part in the conference, from Haifa, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Acre, Nazareth, Lydda and Shefa-Amr.

The British Colonial Secretary, Lord Passfield, appoints Sir John Hope Simpson to go to Palestine to confer with the High Commissioner and examine "on the spot" the questions of immigration, land...

Atta al-Zeer, Fouad Hijazi, and Muhammad Jamjoum, who had participated in the al-Buraq Disturbances (August 1929), are hanged by the British authorities in Acre Prison.

British Colonial Secretary Lord Passfield adopts a White Paper, confirming the views expressed in the John Hope Simpson and Shaw Commission reports, asserting that "in estimating the absorptive...

The international commission that was formed in May to determine the rights and claims of Muslims and Jews in connection with al-Buraq / the Western Wall concludes that the ownership of the latter,...

After intensive international and domestic pressure from Zionists and their supporters, British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald adopts a letter to Chaim Weizmann ("the Black Letter") providing "the...