British Jews

evidence that the British supported a national home being made for the Jews in Palestine. The Brits supported the Jews with the hope that they would support them back as they go into World War I. After all, the final say in the publication of this document was determined by Britain’s War Cabinet. Forming a national home for the Jews would allow Britain to gain support of Jews in other countries that may serve as neutral. Having another country as an ally would only benefit the British, and as…

Foreign powers contributed to the conflict too. In 1917 the British promised to aid the Jewish journey to their “home land” by gaining control of the region and setting mandates. However, Britain’s interest was in protecting the Suez Canal. Schafer writes how the British were after more strategic goals, “The British presence in India and the Far East depended increasingly on control of the Suez Canal and the Persian Gulf” (5). The British thus forced laws on the Palestinians and created more…

During the time of WW2 and the Holocaust, the British government demonstrated determination and persistence when they took action by creating a series of rescue efforts for Jewish children called Kindertransport. The British government knew that their rescue mission would be impossible on however their “persistent efforts of refuge aid committees” allowed 10,000 Jewish children to be safe. The British committee for the Jews of Germany and the Movement for the Care of children from Germany were…

A severely moving show-stopper—broadly hailed as the best realistic novel at any point composed—Maus describes the chilling encounters of the creator's father amid the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-looked at mice and Nazis as threatening felines. Maus is an eerie story inside a story, weaving the creator's record of his tormented association with his maturing father into a bewildering retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an extraordinary story of survival and an…

Europeans, Palestinians, and even Americans affected the Zionist movement. Europeans reinvigorated the Zionist movement through continuous poor treatment of the Jews. Politically, Europeans supported Zionism due to their dislike of the Jews. They supported the Jews leaving. This had the opposite effect the Palestinians. They saw the Jews as essentially illegal immigrants who didn’t belong in Palestine. Americans originally viewed Zionism as a good thing due to the religious idea of…

with extreme situations and violence towards them. Facing persecution and often attacked by anti-Semitic views of the host countries they inhabited, the Jewish population was in a way being isolated and singled out. For example in imperial Russia, Jews were being subjected to pogroms, or violence against their beliefs and practices. The term came into widespread usage after the riots of 1881 and 1882 in the Russian Empire (Klier, 2010). Herzl would use the atrocities…

Palestinian nationalism solidified as a result of British policies of divide and rule. Even though some historians date back the beginning of a Palestinian identity to the formation of the Palestinian sanjaq in 1874 (Khalidi, pp. 149-151), due to the religious attachment to Palestine as a holy land, it was far from a unified nationalist movement at that stage. The British reaction to the 1936 Great Revolt, which consisted of a brutal counterinsurgency campaign…

Forever and Maus, religion is the key to inflicting social injustice onto a certain group. The central issue in Maus, written by Art Spiegelman, is the Jews being rounded up and exterminated like mice by the German government. While in Forever, written by Pete Hamill, the main issue begins with oppression towards the Catholic people of Ireland by the British. Even with the different groups involved both novels have the similar issue involving religious oppression. The concept of religious…

To what extent did the Holocaust plat a role in the establishment of the State of Israel? Six million Jews, mothers, children, fathers, grandparents, murder. The Holocaust, the horrific event that placed an enormous impact on Jewish people, Jewish life, and Jewish identity. Most Jewish survivors, who had survived concentration camps or had been in hiding, were unable or unwilling to return to Eastern Europe because of postwar anti-Semitism and the destruction of their communities during the…

The process of Israel becoming a country began with the British mandate. The British mandate was a process that would declare the land of palestine as a safe haven for Jewish people. In 1947, the jewish settlements caused the Arabic natives to be moved to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. From 1948 to 1949, Israel was at war with the jews that had come into their country and fought to regain independence. This lead to Israel becoming a country after the war and being accepted by the United…