The 1929 Palestine riots, Buraq Uprising (Arabic: ثورة البراق‎, Thawrat al-Buraq) or the Events of 1929, (Hebrew: מאורעות תרפ"ט‎, Meora'ot Tarpat, lit. Events of 5689 Anno Mundi), was a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 in which a longstanding dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into violence. Avraham Sela described the riots as "unprecedented in the history of the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine, in duration, geographical scope and direct damage to life and property".