The 1929 Palestine Riots: Western Wall, Massacre, and Empire's Failure

In 1929, a dispute over a simple screen at the Western Wall spiraled into one of the deadliest outbreaks of violence in Mandate Palestine. Lucas and Luna examine the Buraq conflict, the role of Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Shaw Commission report, and the massacre in Hebron that left 67 Jews dead. They trace how the British Empire's failure to enforce the Status Quo and its contradictory commitments to both Zionists and Arabs created a powder keg. The episode also explores the impact on the Yishuv, the rise of Jewish self-defense, and the chilling logic of communal separation that took root after the riots. This is a story about how religious symbolism, nationalist fervor, and imperial indecision can ignite a fire that burns for decades.

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