ThePalestinian Arab Party (Arabic:الحزب العربي الفلسطيني‘Al-Hizb al-'Arabi al-Filastini) was a political party inPalestine established in May 1935 by the influentialHusayni family.Jamal al-Husayni was the founder and chairman.Emil Ghuri was elected general secretary until the end of the British Mandate in 1948. Other leaders of the party includedSaed al-dean Al-Aref,Rafiq al-Tamimi,Tawfiq al-Husayni,Anwar al-Khatib,Kamil al-Dajani, andYusuf Sahyun.

The party was set up after the rival Nashashibi family established theirNational Defence Party. Other parties at the time included thepan-ArabistYouth Congress Party and theIndependence Party (Hizb al-Istiqlal al-'Arabi, also known as the Arab Istiqlal Party), as well as theReform Party and theNational Bloc, established by public activists on a personal and local basis, and theNational Liberation League in Palestine, an organization founded by thePalestine Communist Party.

The objectives of the party were independence for Palestine, an end of theMandate, the preservation of the Arab majority in the country, opposition toZionism, and closer relations between Palestine and other Arab countries. It was the largest of the Arab political parties formed in Palestine during the 1930s. The first official newspaper of the party wasAl Jamia Al Arabiya.^[1]

Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni was a member of the party and served as secretary-general. He also became editor-in-chief of the party's paperAl Liwaa^[2] and other newspapers, includingAl Jamia Al Arabiya.

Jamal al-Husayni represented the party on theArab Higher Committee (AHC), which was formed on 25 April 1936, during the1936-39 Arab revolt. Following the violence and assassinations instigated by the various Palestinian nationalist parties and the AHC in mid-1937, the British authorities outlawed the AHC in October 1937 and commenced to roundup its leaders, some of whom were deported to theSeychelles. Jamal al-Husayni escaped to Syria, as did Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni. They, as well asAmin al-Husayni, were involved in the 1941 pro-NaziRashidi revolt in Iraq. Jamal was captured by the British and interned inSouthern Rhodesia, where he was held until November 1945 when he was allowed to move to Cairo.^[3][4]

In 1942, during Jamal's incarceration, the party was re-established withSaleh al-Husayni, Jamal's brother, as acting president, and Emil Ghuri, a Christian, as secretary.^[5]

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• Pappé, Ilan (2003).History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-55632-5

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