Yeah ... jailing all those who were going to their Homeland, the Jewish Homelamd that you PRETEND that the British Government supported ... NOT!!
The British blocked all those Jews from Europe, after the war and after they were released from German Concentration Camps from coming to the land, jailed them and especially jailed all the men of military age who could FIGHT OFF THE ARABS, making it so that the Jews would be hampered in trying to defend themselves against the Arabs!
SURE ... that sounds like a country who wants to HELP THE JEWS GET A HOMELAND!! ... LOL ...
I think you need to learn a bit more nuanced history of that time. Nobody was saint nor sinner completely.
Firstly, lets remember WHO fought the Nazis and liberated those Jews: the British. Lets also remember it was the British who made the declaration of a Jewish homeland. Not America or France or Germany or Russia.
Were there (in hindsight) errors in British policy?. Yes, but the idea the British treated the Jews like the goosestepping Nazis they just liberate them from is drivel.
The British (who’d only had the country since 1918, from the Ottomans) were the piggy in the middle between two groups that both not only hated them, but attacked them.
And people like you ignore the Jewish terrorism in Palestine: the terrorism of the Irgun and Stern gangs from 1944 to 1948 (although they’d existed for longer). Terrorism which murdered British soldiers, civilians, and many of their own fellow Jews (not to mention their execution of any Jew they felt was pro-British). And Arab and European civilians. They even killed a Swedish count who had spent WW2 SAVING thousands of Jewish lives!.
The two gangs were so appalling, prominent Jews like David Ben Gurion and the Haganah HELPED the British hunt them down. Abraham Stern was such a fanatic he actually met Nazi representatives in 1941 to discuss a deal where he’s attack the British in the area, and in return the Nazis, after they defeated the British in the ME, would allow European Jews to emigrate to Palestine, and the Nazis would allow this Jewish state to exist, as long as they took in as many European Jews as they could.
Oh, and 1948, it was the BRITISH RAF who DEFENDED
G Jewish territory at Ramat David airfield and attacked Arab Legion troops. The only physical western troops in that war were British.
Again, how dare Americans criticise the British re Jews/Israel. Balfour wasn’t American, and you lot did sweet FA to help the Jews gain a homeland. In fact in 1938 you wouldn’t even take Jewish refugees from Hitler’s Germany.