Anti-Semitism prevailed post WWI leaving the Jewish population desperate for safety in search of a Jewish state. The League of Nations entrusted Great Britain with the Mandate for Palestine after defeating the Ottoman Empire. Britain broadly carved Palestine and Jordan into separate entities and with the Balfour Declaration declared Palestine as a Jewish homeland. Even though the majority of the land was divided in sanjaks—Arab tenant farmers under Turk sultans, with the growing anti-Semitism in Europe, Palestine saw an influx of Jews. The Jewish minority that had made up less than 10 percent of the whole population of what was Palestine received the majority of the land. These events created the world’s largest population of stateless people,
