History

The 1947 UN Partition Plan: what Resolution 181 actually said

UN General Assembly Resolution 181, adopted on 29 November 1947 by a vote of 33 to 13 with 10 abstentions, recommended partitioning Mandatory Palestine into an independent Jewish state, an independent Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The resolution was accepted by the Jewish Agency and rejected by the Arab Higher Committee and the Arab League. It was a non-binding recommendation — not a directive. Communal violence began the following day.