Andrew Katz
1 min readOct 25, 2023

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What's your source for Britain expelling Palestinians? This is certainly news to me. Neither Britain nor the Allies in general were complicit in the Holocaust.

I know there's a growing body of "scholarship" that began with: The Allies didn't do as much as they could for the Jews; then: The Allies sat by & did nothing for the Jews; & finally: The Allies were actively complicit in the Holocaust!

Granted, more could have been done to save individual lives. But expending million of lives (including the USSR here) to defeat Nazi Germany on the battlefield was a long way from nothing.

If Britain did have a bad conscience post-war, then why maintain the White Paper of '39, or keep survivors in DP camps (in some cases for years after the war's end), why insist that the Balfour Declaration didn't mean Jewish sovereignty in Palestine?

I agree that Jews suffered greatly in Christian realms, usually far worse than in Muslim lands. I think one reason for that is Islamic law had a place for Jews (& Christians) as "people of the Book", even if that place was subordinate. While Christianity simply saw us as intransigent Christ-killers.

Not sure I agree that Christian hatred is the cause for all of the past two centuries' atrocities. I don't think it explains, for example, the Armenian genocide, or Stalin's Holdomor, or Mao's Great Leap Forward, or the Rape of Nanking, etc...

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Andrew Katz
Andrew Katz

Written by Andrew Katz

LA born & raised, now I live upstate. I hate snow. I write on healthcare, politics & history. Hobbies are woodworking & singing Xmas carols with nonsense lyrics

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