The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry (AACI) was a joint British American commission established after World War II to examine the issue of displaced Jewish people in Europe and the future of Mandatory Palestine. After investigating conditions in both Europe and Palestine, and hearing testimonies from British officials, Zionist leaders, and Palestinian Arab representatives, the committee recommended the immediate admission of 100,000 Jewish refugees to Palestine, and the repeal of restrictions on Jewish land purchases. It further called for the continuation of the Colonial British Mandate while rejecting the immediate establishment of either a Jewish or an Arab state.
The commission was established in 1945 to address escalating conflict in British-ruled Palestine between the Zionist movement, the Arab population, and the British Mandate authorities. Its outcomes, allegedly intended as a compromise between the parties, were rejected by Palestinian Arab leaders and only partially accepted by Zionist leaders. As for Britain, it never fully implemented the report’s recommendations and ultimately referred the Palestine question to the United Nations in 1947, paving the way for the UN Partition Plan (see Where Is Jerusalem? The Uncertain and Unfixed Boundaries of the City), which was another failure.1