Summary
The Jewish minority-group which, in the Peel Commission Report’s account, desired the Mandate to be revised so as to include Trans-Jordan within its scope, repudiated a National Home confined to the area between the Jordan and the sea, and claimed all Palestine on both sides of the river as the National Home (Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, PDF p.98 / printed p.85).
Details
- From the beginning of the Mandatory regime there had always been a minority-group among the Jews almost as bitterly opposed to the Mandate as the Arab nationalists; they were called “Revisionists” because they desired the Mandate revised to include Trans-Jordan, and if the British Government were not prepared to people all Palestine as soon as possible with several millions of Jews, they demanded the transfer of the Mandate to some other Power that would be so prepared (PDF p.98 / printed p.85).
- Party feeling among the Jews was running high in 1933 despite the National Home’s progress; it was widely suspected that the brutal murder of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, a leading member of the Jewish Agency, in June 1933 was an act of political terrorism (PDF p.98 / printed p.85).
- In December 1933, soon after the repression of the Arab outbreaks of that autumn, there was a clash at Tel Aviv between a Revisionist gathering and the police, who were compelled to charge the mob through a shower of stones; nobody was killed, but 11 police and 8 civilians were injured (PDF p.98 / printed p.85).
- In Chapter V’s account of the General Assembly in 1936, the nearly 20 parties or groups have roughly cohered into a dominant Labour “bloc”, a mainly Revisionist opposition, and a weak and unorganized Centre (PDF p.127 / printed p.116).
Related pages
Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, Jewish National Home, Chaim Arlosoroff, Jewish Agency