Born in Haifa, he joined the Palestine Communist Party before he turned 20, and was responsible for its publication al-Ittihad.
[1] The Communist Party split along nationalist lines in 1939, and Jabra Nicola refused to join either wing,[1] and, after being imprisoned by the British occupation from 1940–1942, was recruited to a small Trotskyist movement by Yigael Gluckstein, later better known as Tony Cliff.
[2] However, with the collapse of the group in the late 1940s, Jabra Nicola returned to the Palestinian Communist Party.
[1] Placed under house arrest in 1967 after the Six-Day War he then left Israel for London in 1970 where he lived until his death in 1974.
[5] Jabra Nicola lived with political activist Aliza Novik (b.