David Miliband will hold the office in Gordon Brown’s cabinet. Miliband, as other “court Jews,” will strive to prove the British his impartiality despite being Jewish. Miliband criticized Israel during the Second Lebanon War.
Another British Jew, a High Commissioner of the Mandate Palestine Herbert Samuel, appointed Amin Husseini a mufti of Jerusalem which paved the way to Jewish pogroms several years later.


