Senior Lecturer in International Security, Brunel University London
I am an historian of intelligence, security, empire and the modern Middle East. Before coming to Brunel, I was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, Montreal. I received my DPhil from the University of Oxford, and my BA and MA from the University of Calgary. Since 2007, I have been looking at records declassified records in the UK, USA, and Israel which shed new light on the story of the Palestine Mandate, but also on the previously unknown role of intelligence in countering terrorism & insurgency, and in shaping British policy.
Israel at 75: how inept British intelligence failed to contain Jewish independence groups
May 11, 2023 15:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Before they were Israeli, the Jewish community of Palestine the Yishuv had been Britains close junior partner. A dispute over Britains restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine began in 1939, but was set aside...
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