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A popular uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against the British administration of the Palestine Mandate, later known as The Great Revolt (Arabic: al-Thawra al- Kubra) or The Great Palestinian Revolt (Thawrat Filastin al-Kubra), or the Palestinian Revolution, lasted from 1936 until 1939, demanding Arab independence ...
- April 1936 – August 1939
- Mandatory Palestine
- Revolt suppressed
Palestine - The Arab Revolt: The Arab Revolt of 1936–39 was the first sustained violent uprising of Palestinian Arabs in more than a century. Thousands of Arabs from all classes were mobilized, and nationalistic sentiment was fanned in the Arabic press, schools, and literary circles.
Highlight. Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression. In 1936, widespread Palestinian dissatisfaction with Britain's governance erupted into open rebellion. Several key dynamics and events can be seen as setting the stage for this uprising.
- Palestine Under The British Mandate
- The Strike
- The Great Arab Revolt
By 1936, historic Palestine had been under British colonial mandate for nearly 20 years. Under the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, France and the United Kingdom had divided large swathes of Greater Syria and Iraq, formerly part of the late Ottoman Empire, between themselves. However, the mandate over Palestine was not the only British colonial endea...
April 1936 marked a turning point in Palestinian rejection of the British Mandate. On 19 April that year, the newly formed Arab National Committee in Nablus called on Palestinians to launch a general strike, withhold tax payments, as well as boycott Jewish products, in order to protest British colonialism and growing Jewish immigration. Only a few ...
While the general strike lasted six months, it set the wheels in motion for what would become known as the Arab Revolt from 1936 to 1939. Those three years marked the most sustained armed resistance against the British Mandate, and was violently repressed by British forces, which shipped more than 20,000 troops into Mandatory Palestine to quell the...
The revolt in Palestine (1936 – 1939) was in many ways the decisive episode in the efforts of the Palestinian Arabs to resist the British mandate's support for a Jewish national home in Palestine. Although it helped force a British policy reassessment, which led to the 1939 white paper curtailing Jewish immigration to Palestine, ultimately ...
15 de abr. de 2022 · Highlight - A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression - In 1936, widespread Palestinian dissatisfaction with Britain’s governance erupted into open rebellion. Several key dynamics and events can be seen as...
Armed struggle in the 1936 revolt. II. Early Mandate Period III. Second Mandate Period. The peaked in the same year that it began, but its origins lie in the years before this date. A series of events served as harbingers of the Revolt, paving the way for its eventual outbreak.
