British Mandate land privatization forced Palestinians into wage dependence

Evidence

Britain played a crucial role in leading the Palestinian economy in a capitalist direction in collaboration with Zionist organizations such as the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, the Jewish National Fund, and the Palestine Land Development Company. Indeed, the British Empire enabled these organizations to purchase and privatize vast amounts of common land, which was then registered as “land only for Jews,” no longer salable to non-Jews. Palestinians were thus detached from the land that formed the basis of their subsistence economy and underwent the key social transition to market dependence and wage labor. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 310

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Palestine lost its productive base and imports goods it once made itself. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 309; British money taxes forced Palestinian peasants into debt and market dependence. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 311; The British Mandate privatized Palestinian common land toward Jewish ownership. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 310