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The Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development, commonly referred to as the Hope Simpson Enquiry or the Hope Simpson Report, was a British Commission headed by Sir John Hope Simpson, established in August 1929 to address Immigration, Land Settlement and Development issues in British Mandate of Palestine, as recommended by the Shaw Commission, following the widespread 1929 Palestine riots. The report was dated October 1, 1930, but was released on October 21, 1930. The report recommended limiting Jewish immigration based on the economic absorptive capacity of Palestine. The Passfield White Paper was also dated October 1, 1930, and recommended similar limiting of Jewish immigration. ==Land settlement and employment== The mandate and ambition of the Hope-Simpson Commission was to tie the issues of immigration, land settlement, and agricultural development in a way that would allow the government to deploy policies that could serve the country as a whole. The Report placed the need to develop a national water regime at the center of the system it wished to create. Relying on this advice and on colonial experience elsewhere, the government later established a central Water Board and drafted its first irrigation bill.〔Shamir, Ronen (2013). Current Flow: The Electrification of Palestine. Stanford: Stanford University Press.〕 The commission reported the real estate price growth and availability to the Arabs:
(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." It concluded that Arab fears of the destructive impact of Zionist colonization were well-founded, and thus called for controls: (p. 135:) "It is impossible to view with equanimity the extension of an enclave in Palestine from which the Arabs are excluded. The Arab population already regards the transfer of lands to Zionist hands with dismay and alarm. These cannot be dismissed as baseless in light of the Zionist policy described above." Hope-Simpson pointed out that, due to the Zionist labour policy extending to all Jewish enterprises, the displaced Arab farmer could not find non-agricultural employment, making the problem of unemployment among the Arabs "serious and widespread": "There can be no doubt that there is at present time serious unemployment among Arab craftsmen and among Arab laborers." "Arab unemployment is serious and general." The Zionist contention that the Arab worker benefited from Jewish immigration was therefore refuted by the report: (p.133:) "The policy of the Jewish Labour Federation is successful in impeding the employment of Arabs in Jewish colonies and in Jewish enterprises of every kind. There is therefore no relief to be anticipated from an extension of Jewish enterprise unless some departure from existing practice is effected." The report also addressed the ''hypothetical'' situation of "swollen unemployment lists": "()rab unemployment is liable to be used as a political pawn. Arab politicians are sufficiently astute to realize at once what may appear an easy method of blocking that () immigration to which they are radically averse, and attempts may and probably will be made to swell the list of Arabs unemployed with names which should not be there, or perhaps to ensure the registration of an unemployed man in the books of more than one exchange. It should not prove difficult to defeat this manoevre." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hope Simpson Enquiry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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