Described by some as the First Intifada, this Palestinian Arab uprising was the longest sustained movement of opposition to Zionism during British mandatory control of Palestine. Local rioting erupted on April 19, 1936 in the city of Jaffa but quickly spread throughout Palestine, coordinated with an extensive general strike. The riots followed a massive influx of Jews to Palestine, who fled the rise of Nazism in pre-war Germany. By 1936, the increase in Jewish immigration and land acquisition in Palestine, the growing power of Palestinian Muslim leader Hajj Amin al Husseini, and impatience with colonial rule over local Arab populations prompted Palestinian Arabs to act. The goals of the revolt were to shift British policy against Zionism by limiting or ending the influx of Jews, to ban land transfers to Jews, and to enable Palestinian Arabs to establish their own representative national government. Britain empowered the Peel Commission to investigate the disturbances, which recommended a two-state solution (one Arab and one Jewish) with a British enclave around Jerusalem and a corridor to the sea. The Commission’s report was accepted at the 20th Zionist Congress, but rejected by the Arab Higher Committee, leading to a resumption of riots. The riots were ultimately suppressed by harsh British measures, including the exiling of many Palestinian Arab leaders and the flight of many upper class families. See P Kumaraswamy, P.R. “Arab Revolt.”Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, 2006; “Arab Revolt.” Bernard Reich, ed. An Historical Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996; Farsoun, Samih K. and Naseer H. Aruri. Palestine and the Palestinians, 2nd ed. Boulder: Westview Press, 2006; and A Country Study: Israel. 1988. Library of Congress. 24 August 2011. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/iltoc.html.  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/1936-1939-arab-revoltsriots