This led to a pattern of regular and increasingly bloody communal riots in Palestine. Though British governments would periodically protest that they had no intention of changing the demography of the state, the Zionist leaders in London were able to overcome these hesitations, and maintain the tempo of migration and land purchase that ensured that violence became endemic to the territory. Once the Nazis had seized power in Germany, there was a massive increase in Jewish migration, with 62,000 people entering Palestine in 1935. Between 1922 and 1935, the Jewish population went from 9 per cent
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