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Fu'ad Nassar

Fu'ad Nassar was a Palestinian communist leader who headed the Jordanian Communist Party and helped found the newspaper Al-Ittihad.

1914 to 1976Leading the Jordanian Communist PartyCo-founding the newspaper Al-IttihadFounding the National Liberation League

Born: 28 December 1914, Nazareth
Died: 30 September 1976
Occupation: politician
Party: Jordanian Communist Party, Palestine Communist Party, National Liberation League in Palestine
Founded: Al-Ittihad (1944), Jordanian Communist Party (1948), National Liberation League in Palestine (1944)

Fu'ad Nassar was born in 1914 in Nazareth

Nassar was born in Nazareth in 1914 to a Christian family. His father was a teacher, and he also worked as a teacher. As a young man he was active in the Palestinian national movement.

During the Arab revolt of 1936 to 1939 he commanded an armed band on the road between Jerusalem and Jericho. He clashed with Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, arguing that the struggle should target British rule and not the Jewish community. After an attempt on his life, he fled to Iraq, joined the Communist Party there and was imprisoned.

He returned in 1943 and helped form the National Liberation League, serving as its leader. In 1944 he helped found the Arabic newspaper Al-Ittihad. In 1951 he founded the Communist Party in Jordan and was its general secretary.

Arrested in December 1951, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison and later released and sent into exile. In the 1960s he worked from Eastern Europe, and in 1970 he formed the Ansar Forces, a communist militia. He opposed UN Security Council Resolution 242.

In 1973 he became the first communist to join the Palestinian National Council. He died in Amman in 1976.