I’m trying to get my head around the Israel-Palestine conflict. My understanding is that Britain conquered the Ottoman Empire during WWI, took Palestine, and gave it to the Jewish people. My understanding is also that the Palestinians living there were evicted from their homes, and the ongoing war is based on their land being taken from them.
I’m interested to know firstly whether this is correct, and also whether anything like this happened elsewhere in Europe after WWI. I learned a very sanitised version of events at school and it never went into detail about people being displaced. Many thanks!
In case you'd like to learn more about the first portion of your question, you can check the answers in the FAQ, or someone else may come along and add. I am no expert on Europe in that respect, so I won't get into that, but the answers there may help you understand some of the misconceptions and correct parts of what you said there.
While there is much more to be said about this topic, this post with answers by u/leowr, u/AnarchoPlatypi, u/Hoyarugby, u/Kovechnik81, u/0utlander, u/akin699, and many others contains a great discussion about expulsions and population transfers of ethnic Germans following WWI and WWII.