1936:The Palestinian War for Independence

By History.Culture.projects
The First Intifada did not begin in 1987. It began in1936 when Palestinians rose up against British colonial rule in a full scale war for independence.
This video tells the story of the 1936–1939 Palestinian Arab Revolt—from the pressures that made it inevitable, to how a peasant guerrilla army brought British rule in Palestine to its knees. It follows the lives of the men and women who led the uprising, the brutal counterinsurgency used to crush it, and how its destruction paved the road to 1948.
Primary Documents & Official Reports:
The King-Crane Commission Report (1919): The suppressed findings on the Zionist program and local opposition.

The Haycraft Commission of Inquiry (1921): Report on the Jaffa Riots and the origins of Palestinian-Zionist friction.

The Firearms Ordinance (1922): Mandatory Palestine Gazette, detailing British licensing "discretion."

The Shaw Commission Report (1929): Cmnd. 3530, identifying the "fundamental cause" of unrest.

The Hope Simpson Enquiry (1930): Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development.

The Peel Commission Report (1937): The blueprint for partition and "population transfer."

The British White Paper (1939): Cmd. 6019, the policy shift on immigration and statehood.

Historical Monographs & Secondary Sources:
Walid Khalidi: Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians 1876-1948.

Rashid Khalidi: The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood.

Baruch Kimmerling & Joel S. Migdal: The Palestinian People: A History.

Ted Swedenburg: Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past. (Essential for the Fellahin perspective).

Tom Segev: One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate.

Avi Shlaim: The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World.

British War crimes and atrocities:
Matthew Hughes — Britain’s Pacification of Palestine: The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936–1939 (book; definitive military history)

Matthew Hughes (article PDF) — “From Law and Order to Pacification: Britain’s Suppression of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936–39”

Matthew Hughes (article PDF) — “The Banality of Brutality…” (covers abuses + mentions Special Night Squads / Wingate context)

Charles Anderson (2021) — “When Palestinians Became Human Shields…” (peer-reviewed; directly supports the human shields claim)

Sean William Gannon — “The formation, composition, and conduct of the British section of the Palestine gendarmerie”, 1922-1926, The Historical Journal , 56, pp.977 -1006

Memoirs & Contemporary Writings:
Ze'ev Jabotinsky: "The Iron Wall" (1923).

Izzat Darwaza: Memoirs on the National Committees and the Arab Higher Committee.

Haim Arlosoroff: Letters and diaries regarding the 1929 triggers.
Archival Materials

The National Archives (UK): CO 733 (Colonial Office files) regarding the use of human shields in Jerusalem and "cordon and search" operations.
The Hagana Archives: Records on the development of "Sealed Armories" in the 1920s.
Falastin Newspaper: 1921–1939 archives (Arabic).
See also -
Betar - https://betar.org.au/history/
1. Haifa Massacre 1937
2. Jerusalem Massacre 1937
3. Haifa Massacre 1938
4. Balad al-Shaykh Massacre 1939
5. Haifa Massacre 1939
6. Haifa Massacre 1947
7. Abbasiya Massacre 1947
8. Al-Khisas Massacre 1947
9. Bab al-Amud Massacre 1947
10. Jerusalem Massacre 1947
11. Sheikh Bureik Massacre 1947
12. Jaffa Massacre 1948
13. Khan Yunis Massacre 1956
14. Jerusalem Massacre 1967
15. Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982
16. Al-Aqsa Massacre 1990
17. Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre 1994
18. Jenin Refugee Camp April 2002
19. Gaza Massacre 2008-09
20. Gaza Massacre 2012
21. Gaza Massacre 2014
22. Gaza Massacre 2018-19
23. Gaza Massacre 2021
24. Gaza Genocide 2023/24 of still ongoing.
Original here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43GNVLiOiFU