ABSTRACT
The Comintern's involvement in Palestine during the riots of 1929 was consistently marked by a zealous adherence to the cause of Arab nationalism, to the point of the Comintern upholding the massacres of Jews at the hands of Arab terrorists as heroic acts of progressive revolutionary struggle. Whereas vehemently attacking Zionism as a reactionary and counter-revolutionary force. The Comintern's position in the 1929 riots was a pragmatic, calculated move that was largely based upon the Comintern's unequivocal committment to support any local uprising in the colonies as part of its anti-colonial drive against imperialism. In combating Zionism, the Comintern followed a well-established legacy of hostility that can be traced as far back as the early days of the rise of the Bolshevik movement. However, the Jewish masses did not respond to the Comintern's call and failed to subscribe to the Soviet model for the solution of the Jewish problem.
