Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development, Cmd. 3686

The Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development or Hope Simpson Report of October 1930 was an investigation into governance of the British Mandate of Palestine, which had been recommended by the Shaw Report, following the widespread 1929 Palestine riots.

Headed by Sir John Hope Simpson, the report was dated October 1, 1930, but was released on October 21, 1930. The report recommended limiting Jewish immigration due to the lack of agricultural land to support it. The Passfield White Paper was also dated October 1, 1930, and recommended similar limiting of Jewish immigration.

Land settlement and employment

It reported the real estate price growth and availability to the Arabs:<blockquote>"They paid high prices for the land, and in addition they paid to certain of the occupants of those lands a considerable amount of money which they were not legally bound to pay."</blockquote><blockquote>(p. 56:) "Actually the result of the purchase of land in Palestine by the Jewish National Fund has been that land became extra territorial. It ceases to be land from which the Arab can gain any advantage either now or at any time in the future. Not only can he never hope to lease or cultivate it, but, by the stringent provisions of the lease of the Jewish National Fund, he is deprived forever from employment on the land."</blockquote>It concluded that Arab fears of the destructive impact of Zionist colonization were well-founded, and...
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