Britain was wrong to let Jews settle in Palestine and is responsible for decades of ethnic violence including the Gaza war, Labour conference told

 Britain should not have let Jews settle in Palestine and is responsible for decades of ethnic violence that followed in the Middle East, the Labour Party conference heard today. 

Dr Victor Kattan claimed that the current bloody conflict in Gaza was 'made in Britain' as he campaigned for the UK to apologise and make 'reparations' to Palestinian Arabs.

At a fringe event attended by left-wing Labour MPs and peers he said that the period of British rule between 1917 and 1948 before Israel was created had witnessed policies of 'occupation, repression and partition'. 

Dr Victor Kattan said that the current bloody conflict in Gaza was 'made in Britain' as he campaigned for the UK to apologise and make 'reparations' to Palestinian Arabs.

The Labour politicians, who include Jeremy Corbyn ally John McDonald, are supporting the campaign, 'Britain owes Palestine', which demands the UK take responsibility for 'serial international law violations' including alleged war crimes committed during what was known as the British Mandate.

It also criticises the UK for the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which set out support for 'the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people'.

Dr Kattan told the event in Liverpool that British control of the Middle East 'violated the legal standards of the time', with policies that included 'large-scale demographic engineering, involving the mass immigration of Jewish persons to Palestine, a country which, when Britain occupied it in 1917, was more than 93 per cent Palestinian Arab'.

He added: 'When the British government, British armed forces left Palestine, the Jewish population constituted 33 per cent of the total population, having grown from less than 5 per cent of the population when Britain had arrived.

'Throughout those years Britain denied self-government to the Arab majority, suppressed opposition to Zionism violently and then abandoned the country in the summer of 1948 leaving Palestine in a state of chaos and anarchy.'

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