Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Immigrants & Minorities
Angaben zur Quelle:
17,3 (1998) 34-54
Keywords:
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Eretz Israel Relations
;
Great Britain Relations
;
Eretz Israel History 1917-1948, British Mandate period
Abstract:
In 1939-48 the main issue which dominated the British authorities' treatment of the Jewish problem in Europe was the dispute over Palestine. Britain refused to open the gates of Palestine, or her own gates, for Jewish refugees from Nazi-controlled Europe. The British government took no note of the tragic plight of the Jews in Europe; it regarded the refugees as pawns in the hands of the Zionists, who could antagonize the Arabs against London. Both during and after the war, when the scope of the Nazi genocide became known, the British disregarded the uniqueness of the Jewish tragedy under the Nazis, downplayed postwar antisemitism in Eastern Europe (and even placed responsibility for it on the Jews themselves), and impeded Jewish immigration to Palestine. George Rendel, of the Foreign Office, determined Britain's policy toward Jewish DPs. The British wartime policy vis-a-vis the refugee problem and immigration to Palestine caused a deterioration in relations between the Zionists and Britain.
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