Trudy Gold
Britain and Palestine in 1945
Summary
The end of World War II marked a significant moment, as the horrors of the Holocaust were revealed. The Jewish people faced the question of what the solution would be for them, especially considering the hostility many of them encountered when trying to return to their homes after the war. The Labour government’s rise to power occurred in July 1945, within three weeks of the war’s end. The question of Palestine and its future was of particular interest during this time.
Trudy Gold
Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.
Basically, the Sykes-Picot Treaty was when the British felt that they had to do something with the French because they weren’t doing too well in the Dardanelles campaign, and the French demanded something. So they took a line north of Acre and the north will be French while everything to the south will be British.
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When Herbert Samuel appointed Hajj Amin al-Husseini mufti of Jerusalem, he gave position of power to a man who was already violently against any Jewish immigration into Palestine. He had wanted an Arab empire, but when the French took Syria and Iraq was given as a British mandate to Hussein, he turns his attention to Palestine. These were all artificially created entities.
He was a brilliant wartime leader, but women have gone to work and women have the vote now, and also, men coming back, they wanted a new kind of England. He is the great hero of England, but his record on the Jews is not quite as white as Martin Gilbert’s led us to believe.