Birth: NULL/NULL/1914 Death:NULL/NULL/1976
Born in Nazareth in 1914; opposed Zionism and joined the resistance in 1929; was the commander of a guerrilla group during the 1936 Revolt and worked with the Arab Higher Committee; was arrested by the British but was able to escape to Iraq; returned to Palestine in 1943; was elected Central Committee member of the National Labor League (NLL – the forerunner of the Communist party) at its first congress in Haifa in 1944; served as Secretary of the Arab Workers Congress in 1945; was part of the stream within the NLL that accepted Partition in its Jan. 1948 general conference, at which he was elected Sec.-Gen.; became the first Sec.-Gen. of the Jordan Communist Party (JCP), into which it developed after Jordanian annexation in 1951; was jailed by Jordan for his political activities until 1956, when he was released by the Nabulsi government; was exiled in 1957; led the wing within the JCP, which favored guerrilla activities adopted a policy of accommodation toward the Jordanian regime (the movement’s other wing was led by Fahmi Al-Salfiti and denigrated the method of armed struggle); in 1969, formed the commando organization Quwwat Al-Ansar (Partisan Forces) (which was disbanded three years later); helped creating the Palestinian National Front in 1973; was the first JCP member to be accepted in the PNC in 1973; died in 1976.
