Herbert Samuel in Podcasts
personThe first High Commissioner for Palestine, a British politician and Zionist sympathizer, overseeing the British Mandate.
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Edmund Montagu is one of the more liberal figures in a cabinet not known for its advanced racial views, I think it's fair to say, and he's very keen on Indian independence, and he's very anti-Zionist, in contrast to his cousin, Herbert Samuels, who was the first British governor of Mandate Palestine.
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A choice that managed to alarm the Arab community, which saw it as evidence of British partiality, while also failing to satisfy the Zionist movement, which found Samuel's actual policies considerably more cautious than his personal sympathies suggested they might be.