Trudy Gold
Palestine, Britain and the Jews, Part 2
Summary
To what extent was the Shoah central to the creation of a Jewish State? These three presentations will examine the relationship between the various Jewish factions in Palestine and how they responded to British policy. We will also focus on the attitudes on the Jewish communities in Britain as a “state of war” developed between the Yishuv and the British Labour government.
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.
Oh, this is so complex, isn’t it? Not as far as I know, no.
It’s interesting because Churchill actually told Weizmann that Moyne was beginning to change his mind on partition, but Eden was against it. But that was before the assassination. And Churchill actually told Weizmann that he thought he could deal with Moyne. Moyne then goes back and is assassinated and I think also so was his chauffeur. Now, never forget some people’s assassins, some people’s heroes, some people’s freedom fighters are other people’s terrorists. One has to choose words very carefully. Never forget what Karl Popper said, “The 20th century is all about the meaning of words.”
Yes, they were. You know, in the end, the question you have to ask yourself is why were the British in Palestine? They were there in my view to put forward British interests and you’ve also got to remember Britain needed oil. That doesn’t excuse.