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175:"Ye Jews, and national Jews in all parts of the world! Wake up and unite! Do not keep silent or rest in peace until the entire Wall has been restored to us! Form yourselves into pro-Wailing Wall societies! Hold meetings of protest! Go and demonstrate before the British Consuls in all countries on behalf of the Wall! Submit protests memorials to them! Explain to the Jewish masses and to the young generation what has been and what is the Kotel to Israel in the past and at present! Explain to the righteous and the pious among the nations of the world what is the national insult which we have suffered at the hands of the British officials without justice or right! Move heaven and earth at the unspeakable and unprecedented injustice and oppression which tends to rob a live nation of the last of its relics and its 'poor man's lamb.' Those of us who are here will not rest until that relic which has always been ours, which had been sealed with the blood of scores of thousands of our children through two millennia and which has absorbed the tears of Israel for two thousand years, has been restored to us. Come to our help by co-operating in this just struggle for the Wall and triumph is sure to come. 33: 1385: 155:, the day of mourning and remembrance commemorating the destruction of both the First Temple and Second Temple, which fell on 15 August in 1929. Responding to criticism from the establishment, who feared that incitement of the youth would lead to "accidents" of no "practical utility", Klausner's Committee wrote in the pages of 83:
During the nineteenth century the Western Wall came to be viewed in Jewish circles as a site of commemoration and particular sanctity. It was also invested with national significance by the Jewish national movement. From the late nineteenth century onwards pictures and postcards often depicted a
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Two days later, in raised tensions caused by a 2000-strong Muslim counter-demonstration after Friday prayers the day before, a Jewish youth, Avraham Mizrahi, was killed and an Arab youth picked at random was stabbed in retaliation. Subsequently, the violence escalated into the
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and as an activist in Zionist polemics eventually brought him to the forefront of Jewish anger at the failure of the Zionist establishment in Palestine to resolve problems over access to, and arrangements for worship at, the Western Wall.
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on the same day Klausner wrote: "But what about the Jews, cannot they too throw stones, have they not hands or even fists? What did Shakespeare say through his Shylock? 'Hath not a Jew eyes ... if you wrong us, shall we not revenge...' "
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on the eve of Tisha B'Av, and was attended by 6,000 people, according to British intelligence. It adopted four resolutions and called on the Chief Rabbinate and Klausner's Committee to continue the political struggle for the Wall.
120:. It thus came to be widely believed that a Jewish conspiracy was at work to replace the Muslim holy sites by a rebuilt Jewish Temple. The resulting tensions were exploited by both Palestinian Arab and Jewish nationalists. 239: 1265: 1449: 1308: 262:, a minor fast day in the Jewish Calendar (Hebrew: שבעה עשר בתמוז, Shiv'ah Asar b'Tammuz), which commemorates the first breach in the outer wall of the Second Temple by the Romans in A.D. 70. 151:, and of the Zionist leadership, who were in attendance at the 16th Zionist Congress in Zurich, allowed the Pro–Wailing Wall Committees to pursue a more radical agenda during the run up to 1419: 183:
The appeal was followed by a protest meeting organised by the World Federation of Hebrew Youth which was addressed by Revisionists and religious Zionists from
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and although not a 'party man' he was a fellow traveller with Revisionist Zionism and contributed significantly to the Zionist education of
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The demonstration by Revisionist youth of 15 August was later identified as the proximal cause of the riots by the
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The committee created a programme of political activities organised and promoted by a loose coalition of
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and Betar marched to the Western Wall proclaiming "The Wall is ours". The protesters raised the
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and young people. It also spawned many branches, which held meetings throughout the country.
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The Holy Land Under Mandate, Volume 2: The Rise of Jewish Nationalism and the Middle East.
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A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel
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The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Hajj Amin Al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement
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The Grand Mufti: Haj Amin Al-Hussaini, Founder of the Palestinian National Movement
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The Triumph of Military Zionism: Nationalism and the Origins of the Israeli Right
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The political vacuum caused by the absence of the British High Commissioner, Sir
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Committee for the Prevention of Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount
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Committee founded in 1929 to promote Jewish rights at Jerusalem's Western Wall
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One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
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Temple Mount and Al-Aqsa in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
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and flags of Zion superimposed in fundraising appeals to
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Index

Pro-Wailing Wall Committee

Joseph Klausner
Mandatory Palestine
Joseph Klausner
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Western Wall
Revisionist Zionists
religious Zionists
Jewish Temple
Temple Mount
al-Aqsa Mosque
Dome of the Rock
Yeshivot
Old Yishuv
photomontages
Star of David
Diaspora Jews
Odessa
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Menachem Ussishkin
Betar
Second Temple period
John Chancellor
Tisha B'Av
The Nine Days
Mizrachi
Chief Rabbi
Abraham Isaac Kook
Tel Aviv

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