On completing the disbandment of 75th Division, Palin became commander of 3rd (Lahore) Division, a Regular Indian Army formation in the Palestine occupation force. Shortly after taking up this command, he was appointed to chair a Commission of Inquiry into the Jerusalem riots that had occurred on 4–7 April 1920. The other members of the Commission were Brig-Gen E.H. Wildblood (one of his former brigadiers in 75th Division) and Lt-Col C. Vaughan Edwards. Assisted by a legal adviser, they sat for 50 days and examined 152 witnesses in eight languages.