Around 1920 Ben-Gurion began to call for Jewish labor in the entire economy , and labor Zionism started striving for an absolute segregation of the Jewish and Arab national communities . In this way ' Jews and Arabs ... would live in separate settlements and work in separate economies ' . Ben-Gurion used the 1929 Palestine riots and the 1936 general strike as opportunities to further enforce his drive for Jewish labor . In 1930 the Hope Simpson Report blamed the Jewish labor policy for the grave unemployment in the Arab sector . According to Flapan in 1933 the Histadrut launched its first campaign to remove Arab workers form the cities . In many cases the removal of Arab workers ' took the form of ugly scenes of violence ' . Reports of this in the Jewish and Arab press ' created an atmosphere of unprecedented tension ' . According to Flapan this forceful eviction of Arab workers and the ' acrimonious propaganda ' which accompanied the operation amplified Arab hostility and ultimately precipitated the outbreak of the Arab revolt in 1936
1929 Palestine riots
1929 Palestine riots
Hebrew labor