Lori Allen is Professorial Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at SOAS University of London, and author of A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine, and The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2013, 2020).
Was another Palestine possible in 1946, two years before the Nakba? The Anglo-American Committee was a missed chance which resonates today, writes Lori Allen.