Summary
A veteran pan-Arab nationalist and Palestinian politician from Nablus, in Banko’s account an Arab Executive member in whose home the Independence Party (Istiqlal) charter was drawn up in December 1931, and who stated in 1931 that ‘it will be the duty of every one of [the] citizens to call upon [the administration] to live up to its duties’ (The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918–1947, PDF p.167-168 / printed p.156-157, PDF p.175 / printed p.164).
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Banko presents Abd al-Hadi addressing the government’s failures to implement beneficial legislation for all Arab inhabitants of the mandate in 1931, in the passage quoted in the Summary (PDF p.167-168 / printed p.156-157).
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After 1929, pan-Arab activists including Abd al-Hadi appealed to the British to grant the ‘religious and civil rights [that were] closely interrelated’ with self-governing institutions; his views articulated a post-1929 conceptualisation of citizenship rights and duties (PDF p.173-174 / printed p.162-163).
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The Istiqlal Party’s founding pact was drawn up in Abd al-Hadi’s home, as an Arab Executive member, at the time of the Islamic Congress in Jerusalem in December 1931; it demanded independence and a democratic government in Palestine as part of a pan-Arab federation (PDF p.175 / printed p.164).
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Banko, Chapter 7: Abd al-Hadi’s testimony to the Peel Commission in early 1937 exemplifies former Arab Executive leadership’s hopes for new citizenship regulations; he stated at least 4,000 Jews entered Palestine on tourist visas yearly and were subsequently ‘lost’, excluded from the immigrant and citizen numbers (PDF p.198-199 / printed p.187-188).
Related pages
The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918–1947, Independence Party, Arab Executive Committee