GREGORY WILPERT: Welcome to the Real News Network. I’m Gregory Wilpert, joining you from Quito, Ecuador. 100 years ago on November 2nd, 1917, Earl Arthur Balfour, Foreign Minister of the British ...

On Nov. 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote a letter to Walter Rothschild, head of the English branch of the storied banking dynasty. Balfour wrote that “His Majesty’s Government ...

“Our policy may fail; I do not deny that this is an adventure. Are we never to have adventures? Are we never to try new experiments?” Arthur Balfour said, in an address to the House of Lords, ...

THE BALFOUR DECLARATION: SIXTY-SEVEN WORDS — 100 YEARS OF CONFLICT By Elliot Jager Gefen Publishing House, $16.95, 201 pages The year 2017 marked the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, one of the ...

On July 8 1903, the first Allied Colonial University Conference took place at the Hotel Cecil on the Thames Embankment in London. The development of knowledge production and university networks was ...

The declaration turned the Zionist aim of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine into a reality when Britain pledged to establish “a national home for the Jewish people”, Al Jazeera says. As Israeli ...

The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives will be introducing resolutions recognizing a document that led to the State of Israel. (JTA) — A bipartisan resolution to be introduced in the U.S. Senate ...

The Forverts did not care much for the Balfour Declaration, the November 2 letter that pronounced British support for a Jewish home in Palestine, in the heat of World War One. Forverts editor Ab Cahan ...

The Guardian newspaper released a list of their “worst errors of judgment” over the past 200 years on May 7, which included their support of the Balfour Declaration. The article, which was written by ...

IN OCTOBER 1917, in the depths of the first world war, an expectant Chaim Weizmann was waiting in a London anteroom. Britain’s war cabinet was voting on a document, now known as the Balfour ...

Some promises are made and kept; others disavowed. But the ‘promise’ made by Arthur James Balfour in what became known as the ‘Balfour Declaration’ to the leaders of the Zionist Jewish community in ...