Youth Congress Party

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Youth Congress Party
Arabic: مؤتمر الشباب العربي
Founder Yaqub al-Ghusayn
Founded1932
Ideology Arab nationalism

The Youth Congress Party was a Palestinian political party that was established by Yaqub al-Ghusayn. It was formed in 1932 in the British Mandate of Palestine and quickly grew to become the largest nationalist association of the early 1930s, counting several thousand members by mid-1934 in branches across the country. [1] The party rejected British rule and was generally pro-Husayni.

The party's membership came mainly from Jaffa and Ramleh. [2]

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References

  1. Anderson, Charles (6 November 2017). "The British Mandate and the crisis of Palestinian landlessness, 1929–1936". Middle Eastern Studies. 54 (2): 171–215. doi: 10.1080/00263206.2017.1372427 .
  2. A Survey. p.950