It’s a boy”, Sir Mark Sykes, the government’s negotiator on the Middle East, told the Zionist leader, Chaim Weizmann, eventually to be the first president of Israel, on October 31, 1917. Two days ...

STORY: A video posted on social media by the Palestine Action protest group showed a woman spraying red paint over the life-size portrait before cutting it repeatedly with a knife - the latest in a ...

Arthur James Balfour is primarily known as the British politician who served as Prime Minister in the early 20th century, and as the namesake of the Balfour Declaration. But he was also a philosopher ...

Since 1948, more than 5.9 million Palestinian refugees remain displaced across the Middle East, unable to return to their ancestral homes. The legacy of the Balfour Declaration continues through ...

The Guardian newspaper released a list of their “worst errors of judgment” over the past 200 years on May 7, which included their support of the Balfour Declaration. The article, which was written by ...

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One hundred years ago — on November 2, 1917 — the British Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour, issued a letter to the British Jewish leader, Lord Walter Rothschild, pledging British support for “a ...

This week, a deeply meaningful resolution—“Strengthening Relations with Christian Zionist Allies”—was presented to the World Zionist Congress by Israel365, a US-based Zionist advocacy organization ...

very fact of his being was of greatest value to us. In the history of Jewry his name will remain forever as that of a friend with heart and vision.” “Lord Balfour was a great and honorable statesman ...

Britain's Balfour Declaration turns 100 this week, hailed by Israel for helping lead to its founding, but viewed by Palestinians as contributing to a catastrophe that stole their land. The November 2, ...

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