Articles related to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, a popular uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against the British administration. The movement sought independence from British colonial rule and the end of British support for Zionism, including Jewish immigration and land sales to Jews. The uprising occurred during a peak in the influx of European Jewish immigrants, and with the growing plight of the rural fellahin rendered landless, who as they moved to metropolitan centres to escape their abject poverty found themselves socially marginalized.