National Bloc (Mandatory Palestine)

The National Bloc (al-Kutla al-Wataniyya الكتلة الوطنية) was a Nablus-based party established in 1935 in the British Mandate for Palestine by Abd al-Latif Salah, a lawyer and former official in the Ottoman Senate at Istanbul. Salah generally took an anti-Husayni stance.

National Bloc
Founder	Abd al-Latif Salah
Founded	1935
Dissolved	October 1937 (Banned)
Ideology	Palestinian nationalism Arab nationalism Anti-Zionism
Politics of Palestine Political parties Elections

This article is about the Palestinian National Bloc. For other uses, see National Bloc (disambiguation).

Its program called for an independent Palestine with an Arab majority and a unification of the political efforts of the Palestinian Arabs. It had limited membership mainly from areas around Nablus and Jaffa. It was one of the parties banned by the British in October 1937.^[1]

Bibliography

• Kupferschmidt, Uri M. (1987). The Supreme Muslim Council: Islam Under the British Mandate for Palestine. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 90-04-07929-7