4-553: The Youth Congress Party was a Palestinian political party that was established by Yaqub al-Ghusayn . It was formed in 1932 in the British Mandate of Palestine and quickly grew to become the largest nationalist association of the early 1930s, counting several thousand members by mid-1934 in branches across the country. The party rejected British rule and was generally pro- Husayni . The party's membership came mainly from Jaffa and Ramleh . This article relating to
8-616: The British Mandate for Palestine is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Yaqub al-Ghusayn Yaqub al-Ghusayn ( Arabic : يعقوب الغصين , Ya‘qoub al Ghussein ) (1899–1948) was a Palestinian landowner from Ramla and the founder of the Youth Congress Party . He got his initial education at the Sultani School in Jerusalem from where he graduated in 1917. He later graduated in law from
12-562: The University of Cambridge , UK. He worked as an inspector at a railway station until the British Mandate , before moving to the field of business and agriculture. He was married to Thuriya Nuseibeh, also a Palestinian noble, and they had 11 children; Talat, Khaled, Abdel-Kareem, Tawfiq, Aida, Khalida, Heya, Motia’a, Khadija, Nuzha and Fatoum. Ghusayn was member of different youth societies in Palestine before he himself established
16-915: The Muslim Youth Society in Ramleh in 1927. He was elected president of the first National Congress of Arab Youth , held in Jaffa in January 1932. He was a member and representative of his party in the Arab Higher Committee from its formation in 1936. In 1937 he became a member of the Supreme Muslim Council . On 1 October of the same year he was exiled by the British to the Seychelles Islands for being
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