With the 100th anniversary of a key Zionist declaration approaching, the Palestinian Authority said it plans to sue Britain for issuing the edict. The P.A.’s foreign minister, Riyad al-Malki, told ...
The late prominent scholar of settler-colonialism, Patrick Wolfe, reminded us repeatedly that it is not an event, it is a structure. While settler-colonialism in many cases has a historical starting ...
The declaration turned the Zionist aim of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine into a reality when Britain pledged to establish “a national home for the Jewish people”, Al Jazeera says. As Israeli ...
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, ...
Some promises are made and kept; others disavowed. But the ‘promise’ made by Arthur James Balfour in what became known as the ‘Balfour Declaration’ to the leaders of the Zionist Jewish community in ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This 1979 United Nations film provides a brief history of Palestine and the creation of Israel as well as Arab perspectives of the events. The film ...
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 ...