Istiqlal Party advances an explicitly anti-colonial program

Organizations/movement: Arab Women’s Union, Haifa. Action: Organizers created a women’s union and developed a base for collective public activity. Result: The union later participated prominently in...

Organizations/movement: Palestine Arab Workers’ Society; General Conference of Arab Workers. Action: Delegates from several towns assembled in Haifa and advanced demands over working conditions,...

Organizations/movement: Pan-Islamic Congress. Action: Participants met in Jerusalem through 17 December, linking defense of Muslim holy places with wider concern over Palestine. Result: An...

Organizations/movement: Arab National Conference. Action: A meeting alongside the Pan-Islamic Congress adopted a covenant emphasizing Arab independence, unity and opposition to colonial domination....

Organizations/movement: Arab Youth Congress. Action: Young activists convened a congress and developed an organizational presence in national politics. Result: Youth organizing became one of the...

Organizations/movement: Arab National Fund committee. Action: The committee resolved to devote collected funds to land purchases and establish a company to preserve Palestinian land. Result: An...

Organizations/movement: Arab Executive Committee; Palestinian demonstrators. Action: Strikes and demonstrations unfolded from October into early November; protests in Jerusalem and Jaffa directly...

Organizations/movement: National Defense Party. Action: Nashashibi and allies created a party opposing the Balfour framework and advancing a national parliamentary government. Result: A rival...

Organizations/movement: Palestine Arab Party. Action: A new party organized a nationalist current linked to the Husseini leadership, campaigning against the national-home policy and for Palestinian...

Organizations/movement: Reform Party. Action: The party announced objectives within the Palestinian movement for political reform and independence. Result: It entered the expanding field of...