Jerusalem 1929: The Western Wall Riots and a City Divided

In August 1929, Jerusalem exploded. A dispute over Jewish worship at the Western Wall spiraled into a week of violence that left over 130 Jews dead, many in massacres in Hebron and Safed. This episode examines the roots of the 1929 Palestine riots: the competing nationalisms of Zionism and Palestinian Arab nationalism, the role of the British Mandate, and the figure of Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. We explore how a seemingly religious conflict over access to the Kotel became a flashpoint for broader political grievances, the controversies over the Buraq Wall and the Mughrabi Quarter, and the lasting impact of the Shaw Commission. Lucas and Luna untangle the chain of events from a protest to a massacre, looking at how the violence reshaped Jewish-Arab relations and set the stage for decades of conflict. Drawing on firsthand accounts from the Va'ad Leumi, the Palestine Arab Congress, and British colonial records, we ask: was this an inevitable collision or a failure of leadership?

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