Arab Higher Committee اللجنة العربية العليا (Arabic) | |
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| Leader | Amin al-Husseini |
| Founded | 25 April 1936 |
| Dissolved | 1 October 1937 (de jure) September 1948 (de facto) |
| Ideology | Palestinian nationalism Arab nationalism Anti-Zionism[1] |
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The Arab Higher Committee (Arabic: اللجنة العربية العليا, romanized: al-Lajnah al-ʻArabīyah al-ʻUlyā) or the Higher National Committee was the central political organ of Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine. It was established on 25 April 1936, on the initiative of Haj Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and comprised the leaders of Palestinian Arab clans and political parties under the mufti's chairmanship. The committee was outlawed by the British Mandatory administration in September 1937 after the assassination of a British official.
A committee of the same name was reconstituted by the Arab League in 1945, but went to abeyance after it proved ineffective during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was sidestepped by Egypt and the Arab League with the formation of the All-Palestine Government in 1948 and both were banned by Jordan.
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