Palestine Arab Party

The Palestinian Arab Party (Arabic: الحزب العربي الفلسطيني‎ ‘Al-Hizb al-'Arabi al-Filastini) was a political party in Palestine established by the influential Husayni family in 1935. Jamal al-Husayni was the founder and chairman. Emil Ghoury was elected as General Secretary till the end of the British Mandate in 1947. Other leaders of the party included Rafiq al-Tamimi, Tawfiq al-Husayni, Anwar al-Khatib, Kamil al-Dajani, and Yusuf Sahyun.

The party was set up after the rival Nashashibi family established their National Defence Party. Other parties at the time included the pan-Arabist Muslim Youth Party and the Independence Party (Hizb al-Istiqlal al-'Arabi, also known as the Arab Istiqlal Party), as well as the Reform Party and the National Bloc, established by public activists on a personal and local basis, and the Palestinian National Liberation League, an organization founded by the Palestine Communist Party.

References

• Gelber, Yoav (1997). Jewish-Transjordanian Relations 1921-48: Alliance of Bars Sinister. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-7146-4675-X
• Pappé, Ilan (2003). History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-55632-5