Category Archives: Resources

J.M.N. Jeffries` Palestine Deception: Modern Resonances

Posted on March 21, 2016 by admin

In a recent review article (New Middle Eastern Studies 5 [2015]) on , The Palestine Deception, 1915-1923: The McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, the Balfour Declaration, and the Jewish National Home. ed William Mathew Dr. Nadia Naser-Najjab of the Institute of Arab and … Continue reading →

Posted in Balfour Declaration, Book Reviews, McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, Zionism Debate | Tagged 1922, 1923, McMahon Hussain, Palestine Mandate | Comments Off

The Companion Guide to our film ‘Britain in Palestine 1917-1948’

Posted on October 25, 2015 by admin

The Companion Guide has been professionally written for us, and gives fascinating background to the history introduced in the film. To give you an idea of what is in it see the section on the Balfour Declaration. It has 83 … Continue reading →

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Britain in Palestine 1917-1948

Posted on May 4, 2015 by admin

https://youtu.be/hOJqLTc6RkU?si=LSnqvLGEejUWiApq Britain in Palestine 1917-1948 investigates the contradictory promises and actions which defined British Mandatory rule in Palestine and laid the groundwork for the Nakba (the catastrophe) and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The roots of … Continue reading →

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The Palestine Deception, 1915-1923, by William Mathew

Posted on September 23, 2014 by admin

In 2015, historian William Mathew published a book consisting of a series of articles from the Daily Mail of 1923. These presented a hitherto uninformed British readership with details of official promises made to the Arabs in 1915-16 of post-war … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, McMahon-Hussein Correspondence | Tagged 1923, Balfour Declaration, British Mandate, McMahon Hussain, Palestine, Sykes Picot, Zionism | Comments Off

Debating Palestine and Israel – Book review by Jeremy Moodey

Posted on June 26, 2014 by admin

Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Mary Grey, Debating Israel and Palestine, (Exeter, Impress Books, 2014). It was George Orwell who wrote in his book 1984, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” As with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Current Positions | Tagged 19th Century, Balfour Declaration, British Mandate, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Palestine Mandate, Zionism | Comments Off

Setting the Desert on Fire. Book Review

Posted on February 17, 2014 by admin

James Barr, Setting the Desert on Fire: T.E.Lawrence and Britain’s’ Secret War in Arabia, (London: Bloomsbury 2006) This book does not fit easily into any one category: it is dramatic, a thrilling account of the last struggles of the Ottoman … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Pre-Balfour Declaration | Tagged Arab Revolt, Arabs, Faisal, Hussein Ibn Ali, Middle East, Peace Conference, Picot, Sykes Picot | Comments Off

Anti-Zionism in London’s Jewish East End, 1890-1948

Posted on February 11, 2014 by admin

Anti-Zionism in London’s Jewish East End, 1890-1948 A summary of Chapter 6 with this title in Brian Klug’s: Being Jewish and Doing Justice: Bringing Argument to Life, Vallentine Mitchell (2010) Brian Klug, being a philosopher, approaches this subject from a … Continue reading →

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Biography: Arthur Balfour by Brian Klug

Posted on July 8, 2013 by admin

From Brian Klug, Being Jewish and Doing Justice: Bringing Argument to Life London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2011, pp. 199-210 There appears to be a conundrum about Arthur Balfour.1 On the one hand, his name is inseparable from the Declaration he signed … Continue reading →

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Agreement Between Emir Feisal and Dr. Weizmann

Posted on July 6, 2013 by admin

3 January, 1919 Introduction Following the First World War, Emir Feisal, son of Sherif Hussein (Husayn) of Mecca, and the leader of the Arab movement, met in Aqaba with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the head of the Zionist Commission to … Continue reading →

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Biography: David Lloyd George

Posted on January 26, 2013 by admin

Lloyd George, David, (First Earl of Dwyfor) 1863-1945 Introduction Because the focus of this website is the Balfour Declaration and its consequences, this biography will be limited to Lloyd George’s career until the end of the First World War, with … Continue reading →

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The Secret of Leopold Amery by William D. Rubinstein

Posted on November 11, 2012 by admin

The drafter of the Balfour Declaration was a secret Zionist in what historian William Rubinstein states was “probably the most remarkable example of concealment of identity in twentieth-century British political history” “…Because of his increasingly significant political position, [Amery] … Continue reading →

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Biography: Anthony Ashley, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury by Mary Grey

Posted on May 4, 2012 by admin

Anthony Ashley – Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, 1801-1885. [1] After a lonely, loveless childhood, when, like many earlier members of the British aristocracy, the only affection the growing child received came from his nanny, Shaftesbury was elected as … Continue reading →

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Chaim Weizmann by Mary Grey

Posted on April 25, 2012 by admin

Chaim Weizmann was born in Russia in 1874, in Motol, now Belarus, but then in the “Pale of Settlement”, that area of Russia to which the Jews had been confined since the time of Catherine the Great. From an early … Continue reading →

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Short biographies by Mary Grey

Posted on April 10, 2012 by admin

The War Cabinet (WW1) The creation of the War Cabinet undertook the supreme direction of the war effort. It was composed of David Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, Andrew Bonar Law, Lord Nathaniel Curzon, Alfred Milner, Arthur Henderson and Sir … Continue reading →

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Biography: Arthur Balfour by Mary Grey

Posted on February 19, 2012 by admin

Arthur Balfour 1848- 1930 The facts of Arthur Balfour’s political life are well-known. What is not so obvious is why he, “a scion of both Scottish mercantile wealth and English aristocracy”[1] – should be linked by history to a document … Continue reading →

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A Timeline

Posted on December 19, 2011 by admin

Early History Before the Common Era 2000-1500 BCE Re-establishment of strong political power in Egypt with advent of the Middle Kingdom led to revitalisation and expansion of trade routes and a period of great prosperity in the Levant. It witnessed … Continue reading →

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