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Fathom Highlight | Jewish votes and British foreign policy: The 1930 Whitechapel by-election / 30 January / 2018

Our Fathom Highlight this week is a new and fascinating study of the role of the Jewish Labour movement in the Labour Party’s 1930 Whitechapel by-election victory. Ronnie Fraser reveals how Labour won the by-election primarily because Poale Zion had obtained concessions from the Labour government with regard to their Palestine policy in return for mobilising the Jewish vote in support of the Labour candidate.

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Jewish votes and British foreign policy: The 1930 Whitechapel by-election

by Ronnie Fraser

At the Whitechapel and St. George’s by-election on 3 December 1930 Jewish voters directly influenced British policy on Palestine, effectively ending the Labour Government’s hopes of implementing the Passfield White Paper, which outlined plans for the Palestine Mandate over the next decade.[1] Labour won the by-election primarily because Poale Zion, the Jewish labour movement, had obtained concessions from the Government with regard to their proposals in return for mobilising the Jewish vote in support of the Labour candidate. Ronnie Fraser,...

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