Collection of posters: The beginning of the resistance

The beginning of the resistance

The beginning of the Palestinian resistance to the Zionist presence goes back more than a hundred years. In 1891, a large number of personalities in Quds submitted a protest memorandum to the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman state in Astana, requesting him to intervene to prevent Jewish immigration and prohibit Jewish ownership of Palestinian lands. In the following year, the number of Jewish settlements on their lands increased, so they launched an armed attack on them, resulting in deaths on both sides.

The beginning of the armed struggle:

The armed Palestinian resistance began only one year after the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. The first military action against the Zionist presence was carried out in 1898 on a settlement built in the Jarsh region.

The year 1900 witnessed a massive campaign to collect signatures for petitions prohibiting the sale of land to Jewish immigrants, and the Arab media was active in this awareness process.

Forms of resistance

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the forms of resistance varied, so associations and parties were established that put resistance to Jewish immigration at the top of their programs, and some of that specialized in economic resistance by encouraging the Palestinian economy and buying lands threatened by the transfer to the Jews, while others focused on political aspects and holding mass conferences And the organization of demonstrations and attacks on Zionist settlements. Some of these associations are: the Islamic Charity Society, the Brotherhood and Chastity Association, the Palestinian Arab Economy Company, the National Economic Trade Company, the Ottoman National Party, etc.