PAWS reorganizes as the Trade Unions’ Council

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...

Organizations/movement: Arab Workers’ Congress (AWC). Action: Delegates, including women, met in Jerusalem and advocated democratic government and Jewish inhabitants’ rights. Result: A...

Organizations/movement: Arab Higher Committee (hay’a); Arab League; Arab Higher Front. Action: The Arab League consolidated nationalist leadership after competition between committee and front...

Organizations/movement: Arab Higher Committee delegation. Action: Cattan addressed the UN General Assembly’s First Committee and challenged the legitimacy of policies imposed without Palestinian...

Organizations/movement: Arab Higher Committee; United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP). Action: A cable informed the UN that Palestinian Arabs should not collaborate with or appear...

Organizations/movement: Trade Unions’ Council. Action: A Haifa conference sent the UN a cable rejecting partition and demanding independence. Result: Labour challenged the AHC’s representative...

Organizations/movement: Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas (Army of the Holy War); Arab Higher Committee. Action: Al-Husseini returned and reorganized forces around Jerusalem after the partition vote. Result:...

Organizations/movement: Arab Higher Committee; Palestinian demonstrators. Action: Palestinians participated in a strike protesting the UN partition recommendation. Result: Public rejection became...