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In September 1948, he was involved in bringing the historic publication of the “National Liberation League” to Al-Shaghour and distributing it, which was the pamphlet in which the Palestinian communists accepted the “partition decision” in an attempt to save what could be saved from the country. During that, he was arrested by the Salvation Army and charged with high treason, and sentenced to death, and while awaiting the execution of the sentence, the Salvation Army fled with its judiciary and its judiciary, leaving the Palestinians facing his fate alone, and he escaped.
After the establishment of “Israel” in 1948, he joined the Communist Party and fought in its ranks. He was one of the editors of the “Al-Jadid” cultural magazine that the party had established in the early 1950s in Haifa, and it became the most important Palestinian cultural magazine after the Nakba.
He worked for many years as a stonemason and bricklayer by day, as a party professional and as a writer by night, and continued in this situation until the early 1960s, when he went on to work as director of the printing houses of the Haifa newspaper “Al Ittihad” . He traveled to Moscow in the mid-1960s to study socialist philosophy at the party school, learned the Russian language, and translated some of the stories and poems he published in “The Union” and “Al Jadid” and in the Communist Party press.
He founded the first cell of the Communist Party in his country, the Banah, (the country of the artist Muhammad Bakri, too), which later became known thanks to him, and thanks to the communists of his generation, as the “red curse”, and he was elected in 1978 as the first elected president of his city. Since the early eighties he devoted himself to literary writing in which he presented a series of notable works of fiction and poetry. He began with his first collection “Wild flowers” (1972), which was followed by his literary works, a short story, poetry and a novel, and published: “The Home Scent” (Histories – 1979), and “Una voz de Al- Shaghour (Poetry – 1981), “Alienation in the homeland” (stories of the 80s) and “An Nasheed to the People” (Poetry – 1992).
During the 1990s, he accumulated a series of novel experiences. He presented “The Sorrows of the Holy Land” (1997 novel), “Moisés el palestino” (novel – 1998) and “A Bird from Morocco” (Novel 2000), all of them published by “Aswar Publications” in Acre, who was his honorary president until he retired from his public activities due to the problems of old age, at the beginning of the new millennium. At the same time, he presented his inspiring autobiography “Memories of a young man who was no stranger. His literary works and most of his political activity.
He reinforced the patriotism and fighting values that were central to his literary works.
In 1989, with the signs of the collapse of the countries of the socialist system, he was a supporter of the policy of perestroika, and in that context he was dismissed from the Communist Party, but he remained a Marxist until his last breath, and he used to reiterate that the error of the Marxism was in the application and not in the theory, and he, until his departure, considered himself “the last of the true Marxist communists,” he said.
Among his many exploits, a hymn sung by thousands of throats for decades, without being widely known as its “author”, which is the hymn that the masses chanted during the 1976 Palestinian Land Day demonstrations, and at all events. Subsequent nationals on Earth Day:
The one who screamed in Galilee / Arab Land of the Arabs
Your Majesty, you have no equal / Your soil is more precious than gold
We are not willing to live humiliated / even if we are to hell with wood »
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