The giant newsreel archive, British Pathé, released its entire collection of 85,000 films to the public this week.
The films, dating from 1896 to 1976, include hundreds of newsreels from Palestine prior to the establishment of Israel in 1948. We found of particular interest the films of combat between British and Turkish forces during World War I and the brave attempts to push desperate Jewish refugees from Europe past British barriers in the 1930s and 40s.
Here are some that were interesting to me:
US Jews protesting in New York against Arab pogroms, 1929:
Absurd 1938 film blaming Jews and Arabs equally for Arab riots:
Tel Aviv Jews protest British White Paper in 1939:
Back to the Land (1939)
Jews building a new village (1939)
Rosh Hashanah 1946 in Palestine:
UN Session on Palestine (1947)
The Arabs Declare Holy War (after partition vote - 1947)