‘The Palestine Revolt and the Peel Commission Intertwined’ Histories of Palestine have tended to treat the political sphere (histories of Palestinian political organizations, histories of Palestinian participation in conciliatory negotiations, etc.) as discrete from the sphere of armed resistance (histories of the Palestine Revolt of 1936-1939, the subsequent Palestinian Revolution of the 1950s - 1970s, and the Intifadas of the late 20th-century). This paper will bring the sphere of political participation and the sphere of armed resistance together by looking at how Palestinian participation in the Peel Commission of 1936/37 was structured by the events of the Palestine Revolt in 1936. The Peel Commission visited Palestine and issued its report in the lull between the first phase of the Revolt (April to October 1936) and the second phase (September 1937 to 1939). Drawing on the memoirs/diaries of some of those members of the Arab Higher Committee who gave testimony to the Peel Commission in January 1937, in addition to documents related to the procedures of the Commission in the National Archives in London, the paper will show how the Revolt loomed large over both AHC deliberations about how to engage with the Peel Commission, and the attitude of British commissioners towards their Palestinian interlocutors. For example, contemporaneous accounts of AHC internal debates about boycotting the commission are closely tied to AHC concerns that the human cost of the revolt be honored. In addition, some AHC members were in close consultation with the popular committees that directed the revolt in cities like Nablus and Jenin. Documents from the National Archive also show that British officials were obsessed with which particular Palestinian leaders had links to what they described as the ‘criminal violence’ of the revolt. This meant that British officials on the commission engaged procedurally with Palestinian interlocutors in a hyper-formal manner, which precluded any chance that the Peel Commission could serve as a space of political possibility for the Palestinians. Understanding the details of Palestinian and British attitudes towards the Peel Commission, and how the Palestine Revolt structured those attitudes, is important, because it helps us understand the result of the commission, namely the first official British endorsement of a Jewish State in Palestine.