The 1929 Palestine Riots and Jerusalem's Bloody Summer

In August 1929, tensions over Jewish immigration and access to the Western Wall erupted into a week of violence that left 133 Jews and 116 Arabs dead and hundreds wounded across Mandatory Palestine. This episode focuses on Jerusalem—the epicenter of the crisis—where Arab mobs attacked the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, British forces struggled to maintain order, and the ancient wound of the Buraq Wall (al-Buraq to Muslims, the Western Wall to Jews) became a flashpoint for competing nationalisms. We explore the role of the Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, the founding of the Jewish paramilitary Haganah's more radical offshoot, and the British Shaw Commission that followed. The 1929 riots fundamentally reshaped communal relations in Palestine, hardening Zionist self-defense doctrines and deepening Arab fears of displacement. We also touch on the little-known massacre in Hebron—where 67 Jews were killed—and the eventual evacuation of the ancient Jewish community there. This is the story of how Jerusalem's sacred stones became soaked in modern political blood.

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