Woodhead Commission

For the Woodhead Commission on the 1943 Bengal famine, see Famine Inquiry Commission.

The Woodhead Commission (officially the Palestine Partition Commission) was a British technical commission established to propose "a detailed" partition scheme for Mandatory Palestine, including recommending the partition boundaries and examination of economic and financial aspects of the Peel Plan.

The Commission was appointed at the end of February 1938 and conducted its investigations from April to early August 1938. It concluded that the Peel plan was impracticable, citing difficulties related to the proposed transfer of population, mostly of Arabs, as well as administrative and financial concerns. It considered alternative schemes and favored a modified partition that retained Galilee and a corridor from Jaffa to Jerusalem under British mandate, but noted that such an arrangement would require substantial financial support to be viable.

It published its conclusions on November 9, 1938, after which the British government rejected the imminent partition of Palestine as involving insurmountable "political, administrative and financial difficulties". Britain called for a conference in London for all relevant parties to work out a compromise.

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