British White Paper of 1922 on Palestine and the beginning of the British mandate – a Century Anniversary
Western Galilee College
cordially invites you to
British White Paper of 1922 on Palestine and the beginning of the British mandate – a Century Anniversary,
International conference
1-2 June 2022
Western Galilee College Room 103
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
10:00-10:30 Gathering
10:30-10:45 Greetings
Nissim Ben David, Western Galilee College, President
Haim Sperber, Multi-Disciplinary department, Western Galilee College
10:45-11:45 Keynote talk: The 1922 White Paper: The Cornerstone of Mandatory Palestine
Aviva Halamish, Open University, Israe
11:45-12:00 Coffee Break
Session 1: Chairperson: Michael Laskier, Western Galilee College
12:00-12:30 True trusteeship of the Mandates System: Wilsonian Idealism 1919 trumps Great Britain in Palestine 1919-1922
Glen Segell, Cambridge University, UK
12:30-13:00 Business Associations and the British in Palestine (1918-1929) Semih
Gokatalay, Graduate student, UC San Diego, US
13:00-13:30 Cultural heritage and colonial origins of British Policy in Mandatory
Palestine Yaron Pasher, Western Galilee College, Israel
13:30-14:00 Discussion
14:00-15:00 Lunch Break
Session 2: Chairperson: Ronen Yitzhak, Western Galilee College
15:00-15:25 Ben-Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, 1906-1929: the Roots of the conflict?
Itamar Radai, Open University, Israel
15:25-15:50 The Revisionist Movement and the British Mandate for Palestine Ofira
Gruweis-Kovalsky, Zafed College, Israel
15:50-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-16:40 Enforcing the 1922 White Paper: The Rise and Fall of the Palestine
Gendermerie: 1922-1926
Gerald Sack, Zafed College, Israel
16:40-17:05 The Failed Memorialization of the 1929 Riots
Devorah Giladi, Post-doc student, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
17:05-17:35 Construction and technological progress during the early British Mandate in Palestine (1922 – 1927)
Rina Wasserman, Western Galilee College, Israel
17:35-17:50 Discussion
Thursday, June 2, 2022
10:30-11:00 Gathering
Session 3: Chairperson: Yossi Yagil, Western Galilee College 11:00-11:30 Land policy in
British Mandate Palestine
Robert Home, Emeritus Professor in Land Management at Anglia Ruskin University, UK (Online
presentation)
11:30-12:00 Transformative Landscapes: Settlement and Settlers in the Plain of Sharon,
1700-1948 Roy Marom, Independent Researcher, Israel
12:00-12:20 Coffee Break
12:20-12:50 The British White Paper of 1922 and the establishment of the boundary between
Trans-Jordan and British Palestine
Gideon Biger, Emeritus Professor in Geography, Tel Aviv University, Israel 12:50-13:15
Discussion
13:15-14:30 Lunch Break
Session 4: Chairperson: Nadav Kashtan, Western Galilee College
14:30-14:55 The impact of the transfer from Ottoman Rule to British mandate on the
Bedouins in Palestine.
Muhammad Suwaed, Western Galilee College, Israel
1455-15:20 The Peel Committee, 1936-1937 – the First Partition plan of Palestine Moshe
Elad, Western Galilee College, Israel
15:20-15:45 German-Jewish refugees arriving in Palestine: The detention camp Atlit 1940/41
Verena Busser, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, Germany
15:45-16:15 Discussion
16:15-16:30 Coffee Break
Session 5: Chairperson: Haim Sperber, Western Galilee College
16:30-17:00 How Great Britain lost control of the Temple Mount. Exploring changes in British policy towards the Middle East, 1916-1922.
Meir (Frank) Loewenberg, Emeritus professor, School of Social Work, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
17:00-17:30 The Assassination of Jacob-Israel de-Hann: The British Mandate, the Zionist Movement, and the Old Yishuv
Motti Inbari, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Carolina, Pembroke (Online presentation)
Final words
https://www.wgalil.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/British_White_Paper.pdf