#OnThisDay 1930: British Colonial Office on the tendency of Britain's inter-war pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist activists to be inspired by "general anti-Semite sentiments"
[A short thread on British fascism and Palestine/ 1]
[A short thread on British fascism and Palestine/ 1]
This comment was inspired by an intelligence report from the Metropolitan Police, reporting that the Palestine Arab delegation in London (including Haj Amin al-Husseini) had been associating with people like Captain R. Gordon-Canning
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This, despite a very explicit warning from the British High Commissioner in Palestine, Sir John Chancellor, that this was *the one thing he didn't want to happen*
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Gordon-Canning was an enthisiastic anti-Zionist campaigner, a vicious antisemite, and a key figure in Mosley's British Union of Fascists (he was Mosley's best man). Pictured here with the mini-fuhrer, himself...
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In 1938, he wrote a pamphlet, 'The Holy Land: Arab or Jew?' - a stream of antisemitic invective and an assault on the idea of a Jewish national home in Palestine
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One is tempted to find the ideological origins of Corbynite FB groups like 'Palestine Live', and the tendency of its members to associate with the Holocaust deniers of the 21st century far-right, in the thoughts of men like Gordon-Canning...
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