Falastin (newspaper)

Falastin

18 October 1936 issue
Type	Daily newspaper
Founder(s)	Issa El-Issa Yousef El-Issa
President	Daoud El-Issa Raja El-Issa
Founded	14 January 1911
Political alignment	Anti-Zionism Palestinian nationalism
Language	Arabic English
Ceased publication	8 February 1967
Headquarters	Ajami neighborhood
City	Jaffa
Country	Mutassarifate of Jerusalem  Mandatory Palestine  Jordanian West Bank

Falastin, sometimes transliterated Filastin, (Arabic: جريدة فلسطين‎‎) was a daily newspaper circulated between 1911–1967 in the Ottoman Mutassarifate of Jerusalem (Palestine), Mandatory Palestine and under Jordanian control of the West Bank. Published from the coastal city of Jaffa, the principal founders (who also edited and owned the paper) were Issa El-Issa and his cousin Yousef El-Issa.

The newspaper is often described as one of the most influential newspapers in Ottoman and British Palestine, and probably the country's fiercest and most consistent critic of the Zionist movement, describing it as a threat to Palestine's Arab population. It helped shape Palestinian identity and was shut down several times by the Ottoman and British authorities, most of the time due to complaints made by Zionists.

Both El-Issas were Arab Greek Orthodox, opponents of British administration and Zionism, while supporting pan-Arab unity, Committee of Union and Progress and Palestinian nationalism. Later, Issa El-Issa's nephew, Daoud El-Issa took the general manager position. In 1967, Daoud El-Issa and Issa's son Raja El-Issa merged Falastin with Al-Manar newspaper to produce Jordanian based Ad-Dustuor newspaper in Amman.Raja El-Issa was the founder and first chairman of the Jordan Press Association and Daoud El-Issa became one of the association's members in 1976.