The 1929 Palestine riots, also known as the Western Wall Riots, the Buraq Uprising (Arabic: ثورة البراق, Thawrat al-Burāq) or the Events of 1929 (Hebrew: מאורעות תרפ"ט, Meora'ot Tarpat, lit. Events of 5689 Anno Mundi), were a series of demonstrations and riots in Mandatory Palestine in late August 1929 regarding access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The riots, which primarily affected the cities of Jerusalem, Safed, and Hebron, were part a longstanding dispute between Palestinian Arabs and Jews over access to the site.
According to many historians, the proximate cause of the riots was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, who had roused fears of a Jewish takeover of the Temple Mount. According to other historians, the violence was triggered by the refusal of Zionist leaders to accept British offers of shared representation in Palestine, which was accepted by the Arab leadership.
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