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Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

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15 December 1938

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Institute for Palestine Studies, Photograph Collection

In September 1937, the British outlawed the Arab Higher Committee (Lajna) and exiled four of its members, Dr. Hussein Fakhri al-Khalidi and Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi (seated first and second left) and Ya'qub Ghussein and Fuad Saba (back row), to the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean , where they are pictured here. The chairman, Haj Amin al-Husseini , and others escaped arrest and took refuge in neighboring Arab countries. Exiled with the Seychelles inmates was Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim (seated first right), member of the Independence Party (Istiqlal) from Haifa . This was part of a larger campaign to dissolve all political or semipolitical Palestinian organizations and associations, and to arrest their leaders.

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Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Fuad Saba