Massive demonstrations were held throughout Arab countries in sympathy with the Arabs of Palestine. In Iraq, ten thousand assembled in memory of the victims of “British Zionist aggression” and poured into the streets in a sustained outburst of anger.
Such displays further pressured the British to yield to Arab terms, which meant an imposition of even more severe restrictions on Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel, and denial of Jewish statehood.
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The 1929 riots began on August 16 – the Tenth of Av.
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