Al-Ittihad gives Arab workers a publishing platform

Organizations/movement: Amin al-Husseini’s exile leadership; Nazi German government. Action: Al-Husseini met Hitler, seeking Axis backing for Arab independence and opposition to a Jewish national home...

Organizations/movement: Palestine Arab Workers’ Society (PAWS). Action: The society resumed activity in early 1942, organizing Arab workers in British camps. Result: Its branches expanded in 1943....

Organizations/movement: Federation of Arab Trade Unions and Labor Societies (FATULS); Ray of Hope Club. Action: Activists replaced the Ray of Hope Club with a federation connecting intellectuals and...

Organizations/movement: Palestinian women’s movement; Egyptian Feminist Union. Action: Nassar participated in the General Congress of Arab Women at the Cairo Opera House and urged action on Palestine....

Organizations/movement: National Liberation League in Palestine. Action: Arab communists announced a nationalist and democratic organization with workers and intellectuals as its social base....

Organizations/movement: Institute of Arab American Affairs (IAAA). Action: An institute was established in New York to present Arab perspectives to American audiences. Result: It provided an organized...

Organizations/movement: Arab Office; Arab League-backed Palestinian information campaign. Action: Alami opened offices in Jerusalem, London and Washington to present Palestinian arguments abroad....

Organizations/movement: Arab Workers’ Congress (AWC); FATULS; PAWS. Action: Dissident branches and communist-aligned organizers formed a separate labour organization in Jaffa. Result: Labour...

Organizations/movement: Arab Higher Committee; Palestinian Arab political parties. Action: Representatives of Palestinian parties reconstituted the committee dissolved during British repression of the...

Organizations/movement: Institute of Arab American Affairs (IAAA). Action: Totah testified before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, defending Palestinian independence and challenging Zionist...