The Arab Higher Committee, comprising representatives of all Palestinian parties, was formed on 25 April 1936.

One of its first acts was to call for a general strike and civil disobedience “to continue... until the formation of a national government responsible to a representative assembly, the prevention of the transfer of Arab lands to the Jews, and the
stoppage of Jewish immigration."

Font row, left to right: Raghib al-Nashashibi, former mayor of Jerusalem and leader of the Defense Party, Haj Amin al-Husseini, mufti of Jerusalem and president of the Arab Higher Committee; Ahmad Hilmi, chairman of the Ummah (People’s) Bank and affiliated with the Istiqlal (Independence) Party; Abd al-Latif Salah, chairman of the National Bloc Party; and Alfred Roch, Catholic notable from Jaffa affiliated with the Palestine Arab Party. Second row, left to right: Jamal al-Husseini, chairman of the Palestine Arab Party; Dr. Hussein al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem and secretary of the Reform Party, Ya‘qub al-Ghusayn, president of the Arab Youth Congress, and Fuad Saba, Protestant notable and secretary of the Arab Higher Committee.

Source: Walid Khalidi

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