As long as the British are ruling Palestine there will be no peace between Jews and Arabs. British colonial rule is based on the 'native'—do you know what it is, the 'native'? He is a very exploited man.

[The Arabs won't resist Jewish immigration] if they are not instigated. If people work together, they won't worry who has the greater number.

[A Jewish state in Palestine] is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrowmindedess and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.

— Albert Einstein, 11th of January 1946 as a witness to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, as cited by the New York Times

Additionally, Albert Einstein stated the following (although no official quotes exist):

Smiling benignly, Professor Einstein launched into the most wholehearted denunciation of British colonial policy that the committee has yet heard. He said that he was formerly an admirer of the British system and regretted that he had now reached the contrary conviction.

(1) He is convinced, though regretfully, that British colonial policy is such as to render Great Britain unfit for further administration of her mandate over Palestine.

(2) A trusteeship should be set up by the United Nations to administer Palestine and it should not be confined to any single power, including the United States.

(3) The great majority of Jewish refugees in Europe should be settled in Palestine.

(4) He has never seen any necessity for a Jewish commonwealth such as is advocated by the Zionist Organizations for Palestine.

I have served as witness before the Anglo-American Inquiry Committee on Palestine for the sole purpose to act in favor of our just cause. But it is, of course, impossible to prevent distortion by the press. I am in favor of Palestine being developed as a Jewish Homeland but not as a separate State. It seems to me a matter for simple common sense that we cannot ask to be given the political rule over Palestine where two-thirds of the population are not Jewish. What we can and should ask is a secured bi-national status in Palestine with free immigration. If we ask more we are damaging own cause and it is difficult for me to grasp that our Zionists are taking such an intransigent position which can only impair our cause.

— Albert Einstein in a letter to Henry J. Factor, written in Princeton, New Jersey, USA on January 21st, 1946