“dethrone Grand Mufti” Palestine Moslem Opposition Conference Decides: We Are Not an Opposition but

The Conference of Palestine Moslem opponents of the Grand Mufti held at the King David Hotel here this afternoon was attended by about 1,000 notables from all parts of the country, including the Mayors of Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Gaza, Ramleh, and Nablus, and two of the five members of the Moslem Supreme Council. The Mayor of Jerusalem, Ragheb Bey Nashashibi, presided.

The Conference decided to communicate with Moslem bodies throughout the world with a view to convening a general Moslem World Congress to be held in some. Moslem kingdom, and meanwhile refusing to recognise the present Conference meeting in Jerusalem under the chairmanship of the Grand Mufti.

We are not an opposition: we are the nation, one of the leaders of the movement, Omar Selah, declared.

In accordance with his declaration, the first resolution adopted by the Conference affirms that “this gathering of the Opposition is the Congress of the Palestine Moslem nation”.

Fakhri Nashashibi and Hoghanan Effendi, who appeared as Counsel for the Palestine Arab Executive before the Shaw Enquiry Commission, received press representatives, including the correspondents of the London “Times”, the “Daily Telegraph” Reuters, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and read out to them ten resolutions which have been adopted by the Conference, which, after declaring that the participants are determined to dethrone the Grand Mufti, proceed to reiterate the demands which were presented by the last Palestine Arab Delegation to London, claiming that these will lead to the independence of Palestine, the protection of the Moslem Holy Places, and the protection of Moslem Palestine from the Zionist menace.