Historian Rashid Khalidi outlines the forces that led to the 1936 Great Revolt in Palestine against the British — the uprising explored in the new film ‘Palestine 36’ (the country’s Oscar submission this year).
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Watch: Historian Rashid Khalidi outlines the forces that led to the 1936 Great Revolt in Palestine against the British — the uprising explored in the new film ‘Palestine 36’ (the country’s Oscar submission this year).
By the mid-1930s, a new mass-based, militant, middle-class leadership, organized in political parties like the Istiqlal (independence) party, was replacing the older, more conciliatory elite.
At the same time, Sheikh Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, namesake of Hamas’s Qassam Brigades, had spent two decades building a rural, religiously motivated armed resistance movement in the Galilee. His killing by British police in 1935, and the enormous funeral that followed, alongside soaring Jewish immigration and widening urban-rural unrest, helped ignite the revolt.
The uprising began in April 1936 with a six-month general strike — possibly the longest in colonial history. More details in the clip below.
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