April 2, 2015 | Britain Palestine Project: Recognition is the Beginning

Rescuing Balfour: Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office 1921-22, By William Mathew

MiscApril 2, 2015

Given the sheer improbability of the Balfour Declaration, its source in temporary war-time contingencies, its activation of inter-communal conflict in Palestine, and its exposure to increasing opposition both at home and in the Levant, the 1917 War Cabinet pledge to Zionism was in manifest danger of collapse in the early 1920s in advance of…

The Balfour Project comes to the Scottish Parliament

MiscApril 2, 2015

By Claudia Beamish MSP Posted on February 11, 2015 by Claudia The Scottish Parliament recently played host to an exhibit from the Balfour Project on British historic involvement in Palestine. The Project seeks to raise awareness of the Balfour Declaration, an agreement made by the UK Government in 1917 promising a homeland for the Jewish…