ABSTRACT
The Muslim-Christian Association appeared first in Jaffa in early November 1918 and about two weeks later in Jerusalem; it apparently constituted a continuation of the associations which had been set up during the spring and summer of 1918 by Muslims and Christians, for the purpose of expressing popular opposition to Zionism. The Zionism was familiar to the Arab political community and was rejected by it even before the First World War. The Palestinian ideology had two faces: a positive one attempting to show why the Arabs of Palestine were justified in claiming the country as theirs, and a negative one consisting of a refutation of Zionism and the Balfour Declaration. It would seem, then, that the close connection between Zionism and Communism as the Palestinian Arabs saw it, was not a result of an illusion but of more deep-seated reasons.
