User talk:2A00:23C4:65BD:EC01:6846:C6FD:5191:9D14

George Ernest Goodman
You wrote: "a local Jewish woman, Bida Lerner from [[Zikhron Ya'akov]. So as she was Jewish and from a Jewish town,this means George and siblings are/were Jewish by ethnic and reigious definition. Thus, growing up in the British Mandate, he/they would have been entitled to a Palestine British subject passport; these were red in colour to distinguish it from a blue full British passport. Some revisionist historians wish to ignore this ethnic fact, in order to exclude the terriroy of Palestine/Israel being inscribed on the Battle of Britain memorial in London, for political reasons; George Goodman was a full citizen of the Palestine Mandate as well as being able to claim British nationality due to his father being British"

This is wrong. The criteria for receiving a British Mandate Passport were: Parents have to be born in Palestine Claimant has to be born in Palestine Claimant has to promise that he will stay in Palestine after the end of tha mandate.

Only one of these criteion was met.

George was registered as a British expatriot birth.

So he was Blue Passport British by right.

Bida Lerner was born Jewish, converted to Islam to marry a Turkish officer who was killed in WW1 and then converted to Christian to marry George's father before George was born. So George had a choice of being Jewish, Muslem or Christian. He chose Christian. He was of "Jewish background". He was not Jewish. He went to the German school in Haifa and had no Jewish upbringing. He then left Mandate Palestine for Public School in England before joining the RAF. His parents moved to Nigeria before WW2. MarkRS53 (talk) 05:17, 8 May 2023 (UTC)