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was a [[Muslim]] [[Arab]]-Palestinian nationalist<ref>Cohen, Michael J. Britain's Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2014. [https://books.google.com/books?id=CbLpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT414].<blockquote><small>By the end of 1941, the murderous nature of the Nazi regime was common knowledge across the Middle East. One of the key Zionist intelligence agents was Ya'akov Cohen, a Samaritan who lived in Nablus. Cohen reported regularly to the Jewish Agency on the situation in Nablus, a centre of Arab nationalist activity.

was a [[Muslim]] [[Arab]]-Palestinian nationalist<ref>Cohen, Michael J. Britain's Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2014. [https://books.google.com/books?id=CbLpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT414].<blockquote><small>By the end of 1941, the murderous nature of the Nazi regime was common knowledge across the Middle East. One of the key Zionist intelligence agents was Ya'akov Cohen, a Samaritan who lived in Nablus. Cohen reported regularly to the Jewish Agency on the situation in Nablus, a centre of Arab nationalist activity.

Nablus was home to some of the  

Nablus was home to some of the  

most prominent Arab nationalists: 'Awni 'Abd al-Hadi and Muhammad 'Izzat Darwaza, leaders of the Istiqlal Party, and Ahmad Shuqayri, the first chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO, 1964). Cohen also reported about trends in other major towns with large Arab populations (i.e. Haifa).</small></blockquote></ref> educator, historian, author and an extremist, born in Nablus.  One of the leaders of the Arab nationalism movement in "Greater Syria",<ref>The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2015, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mj3LCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA399 p.399].</ref> one of the leaders of the Arab Higher Committee and its secretary.  He was one of the founders of the pan-Arab movements Al-Fatah and the Al-Istiqlal party (he served as a representative to the Supreme Arab Committee and secretary of the committee in 1936).  He advocated against the mandate rule and against Zionism.  As a close relative of the Husseini family, he served many times as a messenger and spokesman for the mufti of Jerusalem, [[Haj Amin al-Husseini]].<ref>Ya'akov Shimoni, Arabs of the Land of Israel [Heb.], Tel Aviv 2017, p. 289n22, p. 297.</ref>

most prominent Arab nationalists: 'Awni 'Abd al-Hadi and Muhammad 'Izzat Darwaza, leaders of the Istiqlal Party, and [[Ahmad Shukeiri|Ahmad Shuqayri]], the first chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO, 1964). Cohen also reported about trends in other major towns with large Arab populations (i.e. Haifa).</small></blockquote></ref> educator, historian, author and an extremist, born in Nablus.  One of the leaders of the Arab nationalism movement in "Greater Syria",<ref>The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2015, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mj3LCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA399 p.399].</ref> one of the leaders of the Arab Higher Committee and its secretary.  He was one of the founders of the pan-Arab movements Al-Fatah and the Al-Istiqlal party (he served as a representative to the Supreme Arab Committee and secretary of the committee in 1936).  He advocated against the mandate rule and against Zionism.  As a close relative of the Husseini family, he served many times as a messenger and spokesman for the mufti of Jerusalem, [[Haj Amin al-Husseini]].<ref>Ya'akov Shimoni, Arabs of the Land of Israel [Heb.], Tel Aviv 2017, p. 289n22, p. 297.</ref>