5. 1936–1939

1 Sefer Toldot haHaganah (STH), Vol. 2, p. 632; Subhi Yassin, Al-Thawra al-Arabiya al-Kubra fi Filastin, p. 42; Gilbert Achcar, The Arabs and the Holocaust, p. 133.

2 Ian Black, Zionism and the Arabs, p. 17.

3 Mahmoud Yazbak, From poverty to revolt: economic factors in the outbreak of the 1936 rebellion in Palestine, Middle Eastern Studies 36 (3), 2000, pp. 93–113.

4 Zeina Ghandour, A Discourse on Domination in Mandate Palestine, p. 117.

5 Jacob Norris, Repression and rebellion: Britain’s response to the Arab Revolt in Palestine of 1936–39, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 36 (1), 2008.

6 Thomas Hodgkin, Letters from Palestine, 3 June 1936, p. 170.

7 Filastin, 12 July 1936, quoted in STH, Vol. 2, p. 639.

8 David Ben-Gurion, My Talks with Arab Leaders, p. 80.

9 Leila Parsons, The Commander, p. 120.

10 A. J. Sherman, Mandate Memories, p. 101.

11 Black, Zionism, p. 26.

12 Lord Melchett, Thy Neighbour, p. 225.

13 Black, Zionism, pp. 47–8.

14 Matthew Hughes, The banality of brutality: British armed forces and the repression of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936–39, English Historical Review 124 (507), 2009, pp. 313–54.

15 Shabtai Teveth, Ben-Gurion; Mark LeVine, Overthrowing Geography, p. 104.

16 H. J. Simson, British Rule and Rebellion, p. 227.

17 Martin Gilbert, Exile and Return, p. 165.

18 Yehoshua Porath, Emergence of the Palestinian Arab National Movement, p. 212.

19 Neil Caplan, Faisal Ibn Husain and the Zionists: a re-examination with documents, International History Review 5 (4), 1983, pp. 561–614.

20 Peel Report, p. 123.

21 Rael Jean Isaac, Israel Divided, p. 33; New Judaea, August–Sept. 1937, p. 214.

22 Benny Morris (ed.), Making Israel, p. 16.

23 Black, Zionism, p. 90.

24 Ghandour, Discourse on Domination, pp. 166–74.

25 James Barr, A Line in the Sand, pp. 174–83.

26 Hughes, Banality, op. cit.

27 Mustafa Kabha, The Palestinian People, p. 77.

28 Hughes, Banality, op. cit.

29 William Quandt et al., The Politics of Palestinian Nationalism, p. 38.

30 Hughes, Banality, op. cit.

31 Matthew Hughes, The practice and theory of British counterinsurgency: the histories of the atrocities at the Palestinian villages of al-Bassa and Halhul, 1938–1939, Small Wars & Insurgencies 20 (3–4), 2009, pp. 528–50.

32 Norris, Repression and rebellion, op. cit.

33 Yusif Sayigh, Arab Economist, p. 158.

34 Itamar Radai, The rise and fall of the Palestinian-Arab middle class under the British Mandate, 1920–39, Journal of Contemporary History, 2016.

35 Ghandour, Discourse on Domination, p. 113.

36 Chaim Weizmann, Trial and Error, p. 484.

37 Palestine Post, 17 July 1938.

38 Black, Zionism, p. 380.

39 Elie Eliachar, Lihiot im haPalestinaim, p. 65.

40 Yoav Gelber, Shorshei haHavatselet, p. 184.

41 Hillel Cohen, Tarpat, p. 127.

42 Gelber, Shorshei haHavatselet, pp. 240–43.

43 Quandt et al., Politics of Palestinian Nationalism, p. 39.

44 Sayigh, Arab Economist, p. 160.

45 Cohen, Tarpat, pp. 143–4.

46 Weizmann, Trial and Error, p. 488; Hillel Cohen, Army of Shadows, pp. 143–4.

47 Matthew Hughes, Palestinian collaboration with the British: the peace bands and the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936–1939, Journal of Contemporary History, May 2015.

48 Haim Gerber, Remembering and Imagining Palestine, pp. 150–51.

49 Hughes, British counterinsurgency, op. cit.

50 Black, Zionism, pp. 390–98.

51 Anita Shapira, Land and Power, p. 253.

52 Sharon Rotbard, White City, Black City, p. 93.

53 Meir Pa’il, Min HaHaganah leTzva Haganah, p. 141.

54 Weizmann, Trial and Error, p. 489.

55 STH, Vol. 2, pt 2, p. 820; Anita Shapira, Yigal Allon, p. 96.

56 John Knight, Securing Zion? Policing in British Palestine, 1917–39, European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire, 2011.

57 STH, Vol. 2, pt 2, pp. 650, 800–802.

58 Sonia Nimr, in LeVine and Shafir (eds.), Struggle and Survival, pp. 141–56.

59 Gerber, Remembering and Imagining, p. 153.

60 Ted Swedenburg, Memories of Revolt, pp. 171–202.

61 Nasser Nashashibi, Jerusalem’s Other Voice, p. 107.

62 Achcar, Arabs and Holocaust, p. 139.

63 Yezid Sayigh, Armed Struggle, p. 7.

64 Philip Mattar, The Mufti of Jerusalem, p. 151.

65 May Seikaly, Haifa, p. 250.

66 Yfaat Weiss, A Confiscated Memory, p. 67.

67 Simson, British Rule, p. 134.

68 Peel Report, p. 146.

69 Yonatan Mendel, The Creation of Israeli Arabic, p. 29.

70 Menachem Klein, Lives in Common, p. 74.

71 Tamir Goren, The struggle to save the national symbol: Jaffa Port from the Arab Revolt until the twilight of the British Mandate, Middle Eastern Studies 51 (6), 2015, pp. 863–82.

72 Weizmann, Trial and Error, p. 508.