In April 1935 he launched the Palestine Arab Party, "Al Hisb Al-Arabi Al Falastini" to represent the Husseini power bloc. The party was not the first mass-membership Palestinian Arab political party. It had been preceded by "Istiqlal" (1932) and the National Defence Party, "Hazb al-defa al Watany", (1934) as Palestinian Arabs began organising themselves into political parties after the decline of the National Congress and the Muslim-Christian Associations. The party had offices in all the major Arab towns with a program calling for opposition to Zionism and the Mandate, Arab unity and an end of land sales to the Jewish Agency.