Independence Party (Palestine)

Independence Party מפלגת העצמאות‎
Founders	Izzat Darwaza Fahmi al-Abboushi Mu'in al-Madi Akram Zu'aytir ‘Ajaj Nuwayhid Rashid al-Hajj Ibrahim Subhi al-Khadra Salim Salamah
Founded	13 August 1932
Dissolved	1947
Ideology	Arab nationalism

The Palestinian Independence Party (Hizb al-Istiqlal) was an Arab nationalist political party established on 13 August 1932 in Palestine during the British Mandate. The party was founded by Muhammad Izzat Darwaza, and the other founders of the party were Fahmi al-Abboushi, Mu'in al-Madi, Akram Zu'aytir, ‘Ajaj Nuwayhid, Rashid al-Hajj Ibrahim, Subhi al-Khadra, and Salim Salamah. The party did not achieve a large membership but Awni Abd al-Hadi, through his role as private secretary to Amir Feisal in Damascus between 1918-1920, had good relations with many senior leaders across the Arab World.

Its origins lay in the Istiqlal movement associated with the short-lived Sharifian government in Damascus. The party's aim was independence for all Arab countries, with the basic understanding that Palestine was historically and geographically part of Greater Syria.

The party's creation was spurred by the al-Husayni - Nashashibi rivalry, which had almost paralyzed the Palestinian national movement. Its founders, most of whom hailed from the Nablus area, called for the adoption of new methods of political action, including noncooperation with the British Mandate authorities and nonpayment of taxes. The party also called for total Arab independence, pan-Arab unity, the abrogation of the Mandate and the Balfour Declaration, and the establishment of Arab parliamentary rule in Palestine. The party called for mass resistance to the Zionist project and its British patron in Palestine. During the 1936–39 Arab revolt the party called for an Indian Congress Party-style boycott of the British.

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