(1) To boycott the Jews completely as n counter-measure against their covetous spirit toward this country.(2) To refuse them dwelling space in our district, and to binder their admittance thereto in every way.(3) To persevere In this boycott and opposition until there remains no trace of the Zionist Idea, or until we perish to the last man.(4) To submit this decision to His Excellency the Chief Administrator of the Occupied Territory, and, through the medium of the Allied representatives In Jerusalem, to the delegates of their respective governments at the Peace Conference; and to publish the same in the newspapers for the information of the civilized world, so that It may be understood why the inhabitants of this country are forced to sacrifice their lives for its freedom.(Seat of the Islamo-Christian Conference at Nablus.] (Signed) Youssuf.
It was essentially a declaration of unending war against the Jews of Palestine until they returned to being the second class citizens they should be.
This wasn't the only boycott that Palestinian Arabs declared against Jews.
The fifth "Palestine Arab Congress" in 1922 pledged a boycott of Jewish products and services including the nascent electricity lines being set up by Pinchas Rutenberg, and this was reiterated in at least one successive Congress.
There is not exactly room for compromise here. The Arab leaders said, either Jews remain subjugated under our control, or we keep fighting them forever.
Terrorism and Arab Jew-hatred is not a reaction to Jewish "occupation" or supposed crimes. It pre-dates all of that. And whether it is official or not, the pledge to keep opposing Jewish rights in the Holy Land has never been rescinded.
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