Anti-Semitism has been humanity’s abhorable crime, a crime of hating, discriminating and killing a part of its own; especially since the institutionalisation of European Christianity after 380 AD. Since then the Jews have strived to establish themselves in almost every European country, but in each case the authorities would make humiliating laws against the Jews, forcefully segregating them into ghettos.

For centuries all these Jewish communities were systematically tortured, raided upon, brutally massacred and eventually expelled by orders of the monarchs from each country they had strived to dwell in; forcing repeated exiles. The massacre and expulsion of Jewish communities from at least 20 European states is well documented. The truth is that the whole of Europe could not provide a single shelter to the Jews that they could pridefully call ‘home’, in over 16 centuries.

Anti-Semitism did end in Europe, but not after the Renascence or the Enlightenment era. In fact, enlightenment brought enhanced outrage in the anti-Semitism stance of Europe, which eventuated in the Holocaust (WW11). Yes, anti-Semitism did end in Europe, at least overtly, only after the two world wars; only when Europe had found a way to transfer this scorn of its heart into the heart of the Islamic world, in Palestine.

The British Monarchy had succeeded in winning the Mandate of Palestine from the League of Nations from 1923. For decades before that the World Zionist Organization had worked relentlessly for successive waves of Jewish immigration to the land of Zion and for the cause of the establishment of a ‘home for the Jewish people in Palestine’. This eventuated in the British promise........

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