Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 152)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 152)

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Ordinance" and provide protection for the indigenous cultivators. (72)
Consequently, both the High Commissioner, Chancelor, and the Principal
Secretary of State for Colonial Office, Lord Passfield, began to work
on new legislation, the "Protection of Cultivators Ordinance". In the
meantime, however, both the Palestine office (the Jewish Agency) and
the London main branch of the Zionist Organization viewed the
government act unfavourably and claimed that such a procedure negated
the spirit of the government committment to the establishment of the
Jewish National Home. (73)
In 1930, the Colonial Office in London delegated a team of experts
to Palestine to conduct the first survey ever. The report of the
Survey, known as Simpson's report, confirmed previous findings by
Johnson-Crosbie and added that Palestinian peasant landlessness was
primarily caused by Zionist settlement. Simpson's report received
harsh criticism from the Zionist Organization who deemed it totally
unacceptable. In the same year, i.e., 1930, two additional
investigatory committees were sent to Palestine; one, the “Shaw
Report", to report on the "Palestine disturbances of August 1929", and
the other,"French's Report" on "peasants' landlessness". The findings
of these two reports strongly confirmed the earlier studies, yet the
pressure placed on the British government by the Zionist Organization .
made the former unwilling to enact any fundamental policy changes.
Lewis French who was appointed as the Director of Development in
1930, reported that “Jewish settlement in Palestine has produced a
class of displaced Arab cultivators", and recommended that a law be
enacted to restrict land transfer to Jewish settlers.
In a response to French's report the “administrative Committee of
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