Edited sentence: Animosity towards the Jews had indeed pervaded the British army in Palestine, and Barker was in this respect in no way outstanding.Arguably, the foundation of this feeling was not the traditional antisemitism with its incrimination of greed and destructiveness, and not merely the fact of the armed conflict with Jewish guerillas, but the idea of treachery committed by the Jews against Britain to whom they allegedly owed everything they had in Palestine.He had a strong sentiment against the Jews by that time; the question is only whether he developed it during his Palestinian months, or at an earlier stage of his life.If considered within the context of the widespread anti-Jewish attitudes among the British troops in Palestine of the post-war period, Barker’s antisemitism was probably a product of the military conflict with armed Zionists.In the antisemitic passages of his letters to Katie Antonius, Barker makes a reference to such British sacrifices, unappreciated by the Jews: "…everything that we did for these Jews, in terms of money and human lives.The policy of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the protection from the Arabs and from the Germans in 1941-43, were seen by many Britons as great favours bestowed by the Empire on the Jewish people