The British peer Arthur Balfour barely makes an appearance in UK schoolbooks, but many Israeli and Palestinian students could tell you about him. His Balfour Declaration, made on 2 November 1917, is ...
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 ...
The Balfour Declaration justified all the Zionist dreams and confounded enemies of Zionism who had denounced the leaders as false messiahs, Morris Rothenberg, president of the Zionist Organization of ...
The British foreign minister who wrote the Balfour Declaration played a pivotal role in Israel’s establishment — and remains controversial today. (JTA) – This week, police in Cambridge, England, ...
A pro-Palestinian group slashed and spray-painted a century-old portrait of the author of the Balfour Declaration at the University of Cambridge in England. By Marc Tracy A pro-Palestinian group ...
With Israel embroiled in a war against Hamas, this week’s anniversary of a pivotal moment in the revival of Jewish sovereignty is not likely to draw much attention. The urgency of the present moment ...
The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer: The pogroms against the Jews that were conducted by the Russians in the Pale of Settlement in southwest Asia in the late 1880s led to ...
It was a royal reveal of sorts. A red curtain concealed a small section of the large concrete wall Israel has built around much of the West Bank. A frail-looking Queen Elizabeth II -- not the real one ...
On Nov. 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote a letter to Walter Rothschild, head of the English branch of the storied banking dynasty. Balfour wrote that “His Majesty’s Government ...
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