Upon his return to Palestine in 1918 , al-Hajj Muhammad supervised his family 's land possessions and entered the trade business . He became one of the prominent local grain traders in Palestine during the early years of the Mandate . Coinciding with this period , al-Hajj Muhammad became an ardent opponent of Zionism and British support for that movement . The 1920 Nebi Musa riots , unrest in 1923 and the 1929 Palestine riots all extended into Tulkarm and al-Hajj Muhammad was angered at the coercive manner in which the British authorities quelled the Palestinian Arab participants . His business eventually went bankrupt after the Mandate adopted new economic policies that saw the import of cheaper , foreign wheat at the expense of local produce . His disaffection of British economic policies partly motivated his future participation in the Palestinian Arab revolt in 1936
1929 Palestine riots
1929 Palestine riots
Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad