ABSTRACT
This chapter, the ranks of Jewish immigrants who had left Central and Eastern Europe to colonize Palestine and whose numbers began to swell after the British occupation of the country and the demise of Ottoman rule, the dominant activist trend proclaimed itself ‘socialist Zionist’. The comintern officials in Moscow that this was a party based exclusively on Jewish immigrants with no connection to the Arab inhabitants of the country. It was a party made up of immigrants who had arrived in Palestine with the aim of participating in the Jewish colonizing project. The larger part of the Arab membership would re–establish itself in an Arab nationalist framework, the National Liberation League (NLL), whereas the main body of the Jewish members would continue under the name of the Palestine Communist Party. The overwhelming majority of Jews in Palestine was part of the labouring classes and had the same interests and suffered the same exploitation as the native Arab inhabitants.
