Herbert Sidebotham

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Herbert Sidebotham (born December 21, 1872 in Salford , † March 19, 1940 ) was a British journalist who was one of the founders of the Zionist British Palestine Committee in 1916 .

Life

Herbert Sidebotham was the son of an insurance agent. He attended Manchester Grammar School and studied law at Balliol College . In 1912 he was admitted as a lawyer , but did not practice this profession.

From 1895 to 1918, including during the Second Boer War and the First World War , he was in charge of war reporting at the Manchester Guardian . From 1917 to 1920 he was parliamentary reporter ("gallery correspondent") for The Times newspaper and headed the editorial department for military policy. From 1920 to 1923 he was political advisor to the Daily Chronicle . From 1923 he wrote in the Sunday Times under the pseudonym "Scrutator" and for the Daily Sketch as "Candidus".

In April 1916 he founded the Zionist British Palestine Committee with Harry Sacher , a colleague at the Guardian , Simon Marks (1888-1964) and Israel Sieff, Baron Sieff , which promoted a Jewish Palestine under British protection. From January 26, 1917 to 1920, he published with Harry Sacher the magazine Palestine , the organ of the British Palestine Committee . He championed the Zionist program and argued with the Jewish state as safeguarding the interests of the British Empire after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire .

In 1918, before the conclusion of the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920, he documented a figure of argument about the lack of a culturally suitable autochthonous civilization in Palestine, which is still controversial today :

"Nor is there any indigenous civilization in Palestine that could take the place of the Turkish except that of the Jews, who, already numbering one-seventh of the population, have given to Palestine everything that it has ever had of value to the world. "

Fonts

  • England and Palestine. Essays Towards the Restoration of the Jewish State . Constable, London 1918.
  • Political Profiles from British public life . Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 1921 ( digitized version ).
  • British policy and the Palestine mandate. Our proud privilege. A memorandum . Benn, London 1929.
  • A short dialogue on Palestine (around 1932), reprint 1978.
  • British interests in Palestine . London Caledonian Press, London 1934.
  • Great Britain and Palestine . Macmillan, London 1937.
  • British Imperial Interests in Palestine . Garden City Press, Letchworth 1937.
  • with Sidney Dark: The folly of anti-Semitism . Hodder and Stoughton, London 1939.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ronald Sanders: The high walls of Jerusalem. A history of the Balfour Declaration and the birth of the British mandate for Palestine . Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1984, ISBN 0-03-053971-4 , p. 290.
  2. ^ Martin Gilbert : Winston S. Churchill , Vol. 4: World in Torment, 1916-1922 . Heinemann, London 1975, ISBN 0-434-13010-9 , p. 1924.
  3. ^ William D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein (eds.): The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2011, p. 910 .
  4. ^ Herbert Sidebotham: England and Palestine: Essays Towards the Restoration of the Jewish State . Constable, London 1918 ( p. 174 ).
personal data
SURNAME Sidebotham, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Candidus; Scrutator; Student of politics; Student of War
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Salford
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1940