Monthly Archives: March 2012

Who resisted the Balfour Declaration and why?

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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Significant quotes related to the Balfour Declaration

1840 Shaftesbury takes an advert in the Times RESTORATION OF THE JEWS… A memorandum has been addressed to the Protestant monarchs of Europe on the subject of the restoration of the Jewish people to the land of Palestine. 1865 Shaftesbury’s … Continue reading

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