The Peel Commission, formally known as the Palestine Royal Commission, was a British Royal Commission of Inquiry, headed by Lord Peel, appointed in 1936 to investigate the causes of conflict in Mandatory Palestine, which was administered by the United Kingdom, following a six-month-long Arab general strike.

Peel Commission was a group headed by Lord Robert Peel, appointed in 1936 by the British government to investigate the causes of unrest among Palestinian Arabs and Jews.

In 1936, in response to the Arab Revolt against the British mandatory government and repeated Arab violence against Jews, the British government appointed a commission of inquiry headed by Lord Peel to assess the cause of the Arab riots and the performance of the Mandate government.

The Peel Commission was a British Royal Commission established in 1936 to investigate the causes of unrest in Palestine and to propose solutions to the ongoing Jewish-Arab conflict.

The Peel Commission stands out as the most important of these commissions because in its final report, issued in July 1937, the commission recommended the partition of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.

The following is a summary of the Peel Commission report, which recommended partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Click here for the full text.

Issued in July 1937, the 400-page Peel (Royal Commission) Report was an incisive and balanced review of the British Mandate. It gave sympathetic accountings of both Jewish and Arab aspirations.

Mar 31, 2020 · Kessler examines testimony given to the Royal Commission, to which Peel lent his name, from Chaim Weizmann, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Grand Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini, George Antonius, Winston Churchill and others.