Orwell’s Palestine: Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four and the long administration of a people
By Tawfiq Al-Ghussein 3 Nov 2026 On 2 Nov 1917 Arthur Balfour wrote to Lord Rothschild that the British Government viewed with favour “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”. The same letter promised that nothing would be done to prejudice “the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities…
