The British record in Palestine is not as one-sided as you state. They were under vicious attack from Jewish terrorists during much of this period, and the Balfour Declaration stated that the Jewish homeland was not to be established at the expense of existing occupants of the land.
At least at first the Brits appear to have tried to balance the interests of the various groups, thus ticking off all sides. However, when one side is trying much more actively to kill you, it tends to affect your viewpoint of which side is in the right.
Somewhere around 600,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine from 1920 to 1947, some illegally. This was into an area inhabited by about 1,000,000 people, mostly Arab Muslims, in 1920.
As far as population change goes, this would be roughly equivalent to 120,000,000 people immigrating into the US since 1970. You may have noticed how upset some around here are at the present much lower rates of immigration into the US. It would be irrational to expect such levels of immigration not to generate resistance.
There is plenty of fault to go around. Brits, Jews, Arabs, everybody. The difference is that most Jews today want to live at peace with their neighbors and very darn few Arabs want to do anything but kill all the Jews.
BTW, the US accepted very few Jewish refugees during this period, other than scientists and others that would be useful to us. Couldn’t have a massive influx upsetting racial balances in a country of 100M+, but apparently the same number of refugees going into a country of <1M shouldn’t have upset them.
An obvious expression of the Religion of Peace. There is a plethora of written historical material on the entire subject, a substantial deal of it in my personal library, and sufficient data to take up eons supply of bandwidth, if we let it get away from us.
Suffice it to say that the Brits do not have a shining history dealing with it’s perceived colonial possessions and in it’s dealings with Jews, a particularly inflamed area which appears NOT to have softened over time.
As the last motor cutter left the harbour at Haifa, and the Senior British officer watched the Union Jack lowered and the blue and white Magen David raised, I am sure his revulsion at the defeat of the Bevingrads galled and twisted in his guts on behalf of himself and every Englishman in their “shriveling empire”.
I have spent some years in the UK, and attuned to such “music” have on more occasions than I care to toll, picked up the unconcealed anti-Jewish sentiment in casual conversation from many persons I came into daily contact with.
There is an ancient expression of thought in Jewish oral history saying that he who saves one life saves the world. Great Britain, if the saying is correct, is responsible for the loss of entire solar systems, so much damage did its prevention of escape of European Jewry from the Nazis, before, during and after WWII, and there is no modifying element of Englands abysmal behavior in the bright light of history. Facts are funny things. They annoy but never change, and do not biodegrade. As I wrote in my initial response, the history of the USA in the pre WWII era and during the war itself is a separate matter, and NOT a source for any particular pride.
My pleasure to discuss this matter with you.