Category Archives: Perspectives

House of Lords debate Balfour Declaration, 1922

Posted on May 29, 2013 by admin

For a  full transcript see Hansard. Below is an article in The New York Times on the debate.

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Balfour and Palestine, a legacy of deceit, by Anthony Nutting

Posted on May 26, 2013 by admin

  One of the most shattering and shaming indictments of British Foreign policy ever framed has recently come to light in a collection of state documents compiled by Doreen Ingrams and entitled “Palestine Papers 1917-1922, Seeds of Conflict” (John Murray, … Continue reading →

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‘Perfidious Albion? The British Legacy in Palestine’ – Prof. Ilan Pappe

Posted on April 12, 2013 by admin

Prof Ilan Pappe spoke at the Kenyon Institute in Jerusalem  17th September 2012 on the topic ‘Perfidious Albion? The British Legacy in Palestine’ .

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Britain’s betrayal of the sacred trust in Palestine, Prof John Dugard

Posted on April 12, 2013 by admin

  I want to discuss Britain’s special historic role in securing peace in the Middle East; about the “sacred trust” that the UK undertook in 1920 to lead the people of Palestine to full statehood and independence. I know that … Continue reading →

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Promises and Betrayals

Posted on March 23, 2013 by admin

Britain and the Struggle for the Holy Land The bitter struggle between Arab and Jew to control the Holy Land has caused untold suffering in the Middle East for generations. It is often claimed that crisis originated with Jewish immigration … Continue reading →

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The Other Arthur Balfour ‘PROTECTOR OF THE JEWS’

Posted on February 26, 2013 by admin

By: Brian Klug 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 … Continue reading →

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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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Deliberate deceit.

Posted on January 21, 2013 by admin

Arthur Balfour wrote to Lord Curzon in 1919: ‘in Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country….The Four Great Powers are committed to Zionism. And Zionism, … Continue reading →

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Reasons for the Balfour Declaration

Posted on December 16, 2012 by admin

In an article in the Jewish Chronicle on November 8, 2012 Geoffrey Alderman gave his views on the reasons for the Balfour Declaration. ‘Last week marked the 95th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. This took the form of a letter, … Continue reading →

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Time to remind ourselves of Britain’s unhelpful legacy to the Palestinians

Posted on November 19, 2012 by admin

It’s 95 years since Lord Balfour informed Baron Rothschild that Britain would back a new Jewish state. The anniversary has been marked not with fireworks, but bombs. By Yasmin Alibhai Brown Monday, 19 November 2012

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The Secret of Leopold Amery

Posted on November 11, 2012 by admin

  Leopold Amery, 1930, National Portrait Gallery 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 … Continue reading →

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Britain in Palestine, Broken Promises

Posted on November 4, 2012 by admin

Broken promises: Britain in Palestine A one-day conference on the British responsibility for conflict between Israelis and Palestinians took place at the Quaker Meeting House in Edinburgh on Friday 2nd November. A full house included people of Christian, Muslim and … Continue reading →

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19th Century Anti-Semitism and the Zionist Movement.

Posted on November 3, 2012 by admin

by Dan Cohn Sherbok By the last decades of the nineteenth century the European Jewish community had attained a high degree of emancipation. Nevertheless political conditions in Europe after 1870 brought about considerable disruption: several proud and independent nations emerged … Continue reading →

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Edwin Montagu and Zionism 1917

Posted on October 22, 2012 by admin

Memorandum of Edwin Montagu on the Anti-Semitism of the Present (British) Government – Submitted to the British Cabinet, August, 1917 I have chosen the above title for this memorandum, not in any hostile sense, not by any means as quarrelling … Continue reading →

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Who resisted the Balfour Declaration and why?

Posted on March 10, 2012 by admin

James Bunyan On 2nd November 1917, Lord Rothschild, the principal British financial supporter of Zionism, received an open letter from the British government that stated that “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home … Continue reading →

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