Palestinian Resistance to the Zioni

The Buraq Revolution of 1929

The Jaffa Riots

The Nabi Musa Riots of 1920

Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam joined the uprising against the French occupation of the Syrian coast between 1919 and 1920, fighting valiantly in the mountains surrounding Saladin’s Castle above Latakia. The French recognized the threat he posed and sentenced him to death. Al-Qassam fled with his family and some of his fellow activists to Haifa in late 1920. There, he worked as a teacher at Al-Burj Secondary School, established by the Islamic Society,