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The British 1939 White Paper stipulated that Jewish immigration to Palestine was to be limited to 15,000 a year for the first five years, and would subsequently be contingent on Arab consent. After this Ben-Gurion changed his policy towards the British, stating: "Peace in Palestine is not the best situation for thwarting the policy of the white ...
Jewish refugees escorted out of Croydon airport, 1939. Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948, is a book by Louise London, first published by Cambridge University Press in 2000. [1] [2] [3] It has 313 pages, covering a preface, nine chapters followed by a conclusion, two appendices detailing biographical notes and Home Secretary and Home Office permanent under secretaries (1906-1950) respectively ...
May 17 - The White Paper of 1939 calls for the creation of a unified Palestinian state. Even though the White Paper states its commitment to the Balfour Declaration, it imposed very substantial limits to both Jewish immigration (restricting it to only 75,000 over the next 5 years), and Jewish ability to purchase land.
The MacDonald letter, also known in contemporary Arabic sources as the Black Letter (Arabic : الورقة السوداء), was a letter from British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald to Chaim Weizmann on 13 February 1931 regarding the passage of the Passfield white paper, which recommended restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine, as well as Jewish purchases of land in Palestine.
By 1939, the British had issued the White Paper, which severely restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine, deeply angering the Zionist leadership. David Ben-Gurion , then chairman of the Jewish Agency , set the policy for the Zionist relationship with the British: "We shall fight the war against Hitler as if there were no White Paper, and we ...
Aliyah Bet (Hebrew: עלייה ב', "Aliyah 'B'" – bet being the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet) was the code name given to illegal immigration by Jews, many of whom were refugees escaping from Nazi Germany or other Nazi-controlled countries, [1] [2] and later Holocaust survivors, [1] [3] [4] to Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and 1948, [1] in violation of the restrictions laid out in ...
1948: A History of the First Arab–Israeli War is a non-fiction work written by Israeli historian Benny Morris.It was published by Yale University Press in 2008. [1] The author is otherwise known for multiple other books such as Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem and Righteous Victims, being a member of the group called the 'new historians' and the individual who most popularized the term.
The significance of the program to a Jewish commonwealth was in stepping beyond the terms of the Balfour Declaration, which had been reaffirmed as British policy by Winston Churchill's White Paper of 1922, that there should be a "Jewish National Home" in Palestine. According to Ami Isseroff, the program was "a crucial step in the development of ...