Britain and Judaising the city of Islamicjerusalem until 1948

The city of Islamicjerusalem has been at the core of interest of the great powers’ policies, namely Britain even prior to the establishment of the Zionist state in Palestinian land in 1948. Britain had a central and leading role in its alliance with the Zionist settlement project in Palestine, and its heart, the Holy City of Jerusalem, on the basis of cultural, spiritual and political ideas and concepts. During the nineteenth century, when European colonial powers used religious and moral/cultural disguises to carry out most of their political aims for the sake of controlling the Holy land, Britain rushed to ally itself with the Jewish colonial settlement movement on the basis of the protestant principles and ideas, which were rooted in their conscience and known as “Christian Zionism”. This alliance was materialized on the ground before the end of WWI with Britain’s granting of the infamous Balfour Declaration in 1917, which established a national homeland for the Jews in Palestine. Based on the above, this study will briefly present the position of Jerusalem in the British cultural heritage (Christian Zionism) and discuss the Judaisation of the city of Jerusalem during the British occupation of Jerusalem (1918-1948) with international blessing and how this crystallized in the policy of the British occupation on the ground