Britain deported refugees to Mauritius in 1940, not to Europe, and none were gassed

“British Mandated Palestine” means British Mandate OVER Palestine. You cannot have a Mandate over something that does not already exist. So, the British Mandate was not a “one state solution” but rather a literal mandate an empire forced upon a people, the people of Palestine, who live in Palestine which existed before the Mandate.

Under international law at that point Britain was a belligerent occupant aka a military occupier, which has no power to transfer sovereignty or hand out title to the land. Even the Mandate document itself, per the League of Nations covenant it rested on, made Britain an administrator (a trustee governing the territory “until such time as they are able to stand alone,” explicitly taking into account the wishes of the inhabitants.

In 1919, the King-Crane Commission, sent by the Allies, recorded that the population overwhelmingly opposed the Zionist project.

When the British deported Jews in 1940, under the orders of High Commissioner Harold MacMichael, he ordered Jewish refugees to be deported to Mauritius, a British colony in the Indian Ocean, not Europe. The British were literally fighting the Nazis, not sending people to them to get them gassed. Matter of fact, 1,320 of them returned to Haifa on 26 August 1945.

The people who were deported were not “Sabras” (which means born in Palestine), they were European refugees who had just arrived from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia via the Danube, deported precisely because they were new arrivals without permits under the 1939 White Paper. The deportation was from British Policy, not Arab.

He is right that at some point there were some people who got deported to Europe (Germany), but that was in 1947 AFTER WWII completed and they were sent to “displaced persons camps”. Nobody was gassed. Hitler was already dead. Exodus 1947 is what it’s called.

First published in my Quora debunk archive.