The British did more damage to Jews in Palestine, the occupier term for Judea/Israel, than any other occupier or Empire. What started off in good faith, emanating from the Zionist Organization reaching out to Lord Balfour of the UK to help Jews re-establish indigenous sovereignty in the Jewish homeland post WWI, turned into a full occupation filled with antisemitic actions and policies.

What many call the ‘British Mandate’ or ‘Mandate Years’ technically only lasted for barely two years, from 1920 – 1922. Power of the Mandate was entrusted to the British, in good faith, by the League of Nations. In 1922, Churchill, as Foreign Secretary, stole 78% of the Jewish homeland and gave it away to an Arabian royal family, the Hashemites, while at the same time, issued antisemitic White Papers, which dangerously limited Jewish immigration down to paltry numbers. These actions turned the legal Mandate into an illegal occupation, which lasted from 1922 – 1948. Brave Jews fought the British occupiers for nearly 20 years to achieve liberation (of the 22% left of the Jewish homeland).

Those White Papers not only contributed to Hitler’s Final Solution, but also gave the upper hand to the Arab occupiers in Israel. Further, there was an antisemitic double standard in place– Jews were not allowed to own weapons in Israel, but Arabs could. When the British-fomented Arab revolts against Jews began in 1929, it was Jews who were punished and in quite a few instances, expelled from areas where Jews lived for thousands of years. It was brave Jews who liberated Israel in 1948 after nearly 20 years of armed struggle against the British occupiers. Therefore, Israel was not ‘created’ or ‘established’ in 1948 and certainly the antisemitic UN had nothing to do with Israel’s liberation.