Radwan Al Hilu
Radwan Al Hilu | |
|---|---|
| General Secretary of Palestine Communist Party | |
| In office 1934–1943 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1909 Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine |
| Died | 1975 (aged 65–66) Jericho, State of Palestine |
Radwan Al Hilu (1909–1975) was a Palestinian Arab politician who was the leader of the Palestine Communist Party between 1934 and 1943. He was the first Arab to hold the post[1] and used the pseudonym Musa.[2]
Biography
[edit]Al Hilu was born in Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine, in 1909,[1] into a poor working-class Christian Orthodox family.[3] He was a member of the Palestine Communist Party being part of the mainstream faction.[4] He and Bulus Farah were sent to Moscow for leadership training at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East.[2][3]
In 1934, Al Hilu was appointed by the Comintern as the secretary general of the party.[5] His appointment was a result of the Comintern's efforts of the Arabization in the party of which most members were Jewish.[6] He held the post until November 1943 when he resigned from the party due to internal conflicts.[1][7]
Al Hilu had an affair with Simha Tzabari who was also a member of the Palestinian Communist Party.[3]
Al Hilu died in Jericho in 1975.[1]
References
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- ^ a b Nir Arielli (October 2011). "Induced to Volunteer? The Predicament of Jewish Communists in Palestine and the Spanish Civil War". Journal of Contemporary History. 46 (4): 863. doi:10.1177/0022009411413406. JSTOR 41305362. S2CID 153545063.
- ^ a b c Marev Mack (2015). "Orthodox and Communist: A History of a Christian Community in Mandate Palestine and Israel". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 42 (4): 394–395. doi:10.1080/13530194.2014.1002386. S2CID 153785634.
- ^ Ran Greenstein (Summer 2011). "A Palestinian Revolutionary: Jabra Nicola and the Radical Left". Jerusalem Quarterly (46): 36.
- ^ Musa Budeiri (14 August 2020). "Essential Readings on the Left in Mandate Palestine". Jadaliyya. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
- ^ Ran Greenstein (Spring 2009). "Class, Nation, and Political Organization: The Anti-Zionist Left in Israel/Palestine". International Labor and Working-Class History. 75 (1): 91. doi:10.1017/S0147547909000076. JSTOR 27673143. S2CID 144848023.
- ^ Johan Franzéén (2007). "Communism versus Zionism: The Comintern, Yishuvism, and the Palestine Communist Party" (PDF). Journal of Palestine Studies. 36 (2): 18. doi:10.1525/jps.2007.36.2.6.