Following illegal Jewish provocations at the Al Asqa Mosque/Western Wall, Palestinians in Jerusalem riot.
The 1929 Palestine riots, Buraq Uprising (Arabic: ثورة البراق, Thawrat al-Burāq), was a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 in which a longstanding dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into violence. On August 15, 1929, group of 300 Revisionist Zionist youth, who were militant […]
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Resources
- 1929 Palestinian riots - wikipedia
- Pro Wailing Wall Committee - wikipedia
- Shaw Commission on Cause of Riots - wikipedia
- Revisionist Zionism
- Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006), 44.
- Naomi Wiener Cohen, The year after the riots: American responses to the Palestine crisis of 1929-39, Wayne State University Press, 1988 p. 34