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Any aspect of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict can arouse strong emotions among many pupils, some of whom may bring entrenched or extremist viewpoints with them to the topic. Studying the build-up to this conflict from the perspective of the British rulers of Palestine, between their conquest of the territory in 1917 during World War I and their abandonment of it in 1948, can help deepen pupils’ understanding of why Jews and Arab Palestinians came into growing conflict with each other, which was partly fuelled by changes in British policy over time.