{{Short description|Palestinian women's rights conference}} {{pp-extended|small=yes}} thumb|Arab Women's Association, Jerusalem, 1929 The '''First Palestine Arab Women's Congress''', also '''First Arab Women's Congress''', or the '''Palestinian Arab Women's Congress''' was a women's rights conference held in Jerusalem on 26 October 1929.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2011-06-04 |title=PASSIA: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs - Jerusalem |url=http://www.passia.org/jerusalem/publications/J_wom_org_british_man_txt.htm |access-date=2024-03-25 |archive-date=2011-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604202131/http://www.passia.org/jerusalem/publications/J_wom_org_british_man_txt.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Chronology |url=https://palestinianfeministcollective.org/calendar/chronology/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Palestinian Feminist Collective |language=en-US}}</ref> It was organised by the Arab Women's Association of Palestine and was their inaugural event.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=The Emergence of the Palestinian Women's Movement, 1929-39 |url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/40801 |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Institute for Palestine Studies |language=en}}</ref>
Intended to act as a political catalyst for women in Palestine,<ref name=":1" /> it marked a turning point in their political determination.<ref name=":0" /> It was attended by 200 women.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Qumsiyeh |first=Mazin |date=2021-03-08 |title=Women's leadership in the struggle for Palestinian freedom |url=https://cpnn-world.org/new/?p=23334 |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=CPNN |language=en-US}}</ref> The congress established that Palestinian women had a range of concerns,<ref>Samaroo, Dima. [https://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/KPMED-Paper_The-Political-Participation-of-Palestinian-Women-in-Official-and-Non-Official-Organizations-in-Limited-Horizon.pdf "The political participation of Palestinian women in official and non-official organizations in limited horizon."] ''ICSR. P'' 9 (2018).</ref> but those of highest priority were their opposition to the Balfour Declaration, opposition to Zionist immigration to Palestine and opposition to the violence of British police.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=In pictures: Palestinian women and anti-colonial resistance in the 1930s |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/palestine-women-anti-colonial-resistance-pictures |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Middle East Eye |language=en}}</ref> The congress sent a delegation of participants to present their concerns during the conference to the High Commissioner of Jerusalem,<ref name=":1" /> travelling to his residence in vehicles.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0" /> The congress was highly organised, with the press alerted to its convening and actions in advance.<ref name=":1" /> They emphasised peaceful demonstration and means of protest, such as sit-ins and using telegrams to share their demands, rather than violence.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kuttab |first=Eileen S. |date=1993 |title=Palestinian Women in the "Intifada": Fighting on Two Fronts |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41858974 |journal=Arab Studies Quarterly |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=69–85 |jstor=41858974 |issn=0271-3519}}</ref>
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