The British Mandate in Palestine: The Strange Case of the 1930 White Paper
After the “Wailing Wall” riots and pogroms that swept Palestine in August 1929, a British Commission of Inquiry reported that the Zionist project in Palestine could not proceed without encroaching upon the rights of the Palestinians, creating a class of landless Arabs. The minority Labour government...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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European journal of jewish studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 79-107 |
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Ernest Bevin
Sir John Chancellor
John Hope-Simpson
Ramsay MacDonald
Lord Passfield (Sydney Webb)
Shaw Commission
Beatrice Webb
Chaim Weizmann
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| Summary: | After the “Wailing Wall” riots and pogroms that swept Palestine in August 1929, a British Commission of Inquiry reported that the Zionist project in Palestine could not proceed without encroaching upon the rights of the Palestinians, creating a class of landless Arabs. The minority Labour government endorsed these conclusions, in its White Paper of October 1930. But in a period of severe economic crisis, with Britain fearful of the Zionist lobby in the United States, and dependent upon Zionist finance to maintain its rule over Palestine, the government retreated from its own policy, in unique constitutional circumstances. |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1872-471X |
| Contains: | In: European journal of jewish studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1872471X-12341287 |