Political report of the Executive of the Jewish Agency submitted to the ... Zionist Congress and the ... session of the Council of the Jewish Agency · 1937-08-01 · 8.1937 · p. Seite 120

APPENDIX IX. MEMORANDUM OF THE JEWISH AGENCY ON THE PALESTINE ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1936. London, 18th July, 1937. His Excellency, The High Commissioner for Palestine, Government Offices, Jerusalem. Your Execellency, I have the honour, on behalf of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, to request that you may submit to His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies the following observations upon the Report by His Majesty's Government to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Palestine and Transjordan for the year 1936 and that a copy thereof may be transmitted, through the proper channels, to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations for the information of the Permanent Mandates Commission. 2. The Jewish Agency must enter a strong protest against the manner in which the events of last year's disturbances has been described in the opening sections of the Report. The record of the disturbances presented therein must inevitably convey the impression that Jews and Arabs are in equal measure to blame for what occurred, if the Jews do not, indeed, appear as the guiltier party. To anyone familiar with the course of the disturbances and the relative importance of individual events both prior to and during the outbreak, the picture presented cannot appear other than as a glaring misrepresentation. Every small incident and every allegation that could possibly be charged against the Jews is reproduced in meticulous detail, while, on the other hand, some of the most serious deeds committed on the part of the Arabs are ignored and the significance of those which are recorded is greatly understated. As no public inquiry has been held to establish the manner in which the disturbances originated and where the responsibility for their occurrence has to be placed, the Jewish Agency had no opportunity of disproving certain allegations contained in the Report by factual evidence. The main points in the Report to which the Jewish Agency has to take exception are hereinafter set forth. Paras. 20—25 of the Report. 3. In .the description of the Jaffa outbreak of April 1936, which