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How a Jewish Legion Came to Fight for the United Kingdom in World War I
Against the protestations of many Zionist and anti-Zionist Jewish leaders.
From the moment the Ottoman empire joined forces with the Central Powers in November 1914, the Zionist leaders Ze’ev Jabotinsky and Chaim Weizmann worked to create a Jewish legion to fight alongside the British army to liberate Palestine from the sultan. The idea met with strong opposition from both the government of Herbert Asquith and the Zionist leadership, and resulted only in the short-lived Zion Mule Corps, which fought against the Turks in the failed Gallipoli campaign. But in 1917 London reconsidered, allowing for the formation of Jewish units to be made up primarily of Russian subjects living in Britain. Colin Schindler writes:
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How a Jewish Legion Came to Fight for the United Kingdom in World War I
Against the protestations of many Zionist and anti-Zionist Jewish leaders.