Labels:boat | brass | bulletin board | earth | flower | mountain | person | rock | sea | water OCR: The White Paper on Paiestine, issued by the British government in May 1939 limited Jewish immigration into Palestine during the Holocaust r doing blocked the Iast legal escape route for Jews who were trapped in Europe. The British, who controlled Palestine issueg the policy statement to appease the Palestinian Arabs, who were rebelling in response increased Jewish immigration from Nazi Germany The White Paper set the annual quota at no more than 15 000 Jewish immigrants for each of the next five vears AS an additional concess ion, 11 made all additional Jewish immigration dependent on the consent of the Palestinian Arabs last sponse years immigratior corsert