Balfour Declaration

Gideon Sa'ar responds to Yvette Cooper’s criticism of Israel during UN Security Council meeting

Gideon Sa'ar sharply responded to Yvette Cooper's criticism of Israel's land policies at the UN, referencing the Balfour Declaration and historical British support for a Jewish homeland.

|ByIDAN KWELLER, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar speaks during a stakeout before attending a Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York City, U.S., August 5, 2025.
SUPPORTERS OF Defend Our Juries take part in a protest as part of the group's campaign to lift the ban on Palestine Action, ahead of a judicial review in London next week, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, November 22, 2025.

Jailed UK Palestine Action members end hunger strike, claim victory

Kamran Ahmed, Heba Muraisi, and Lewie Chiaramello announced the end of the hunger strike, started by seven activists jailed for participation in a campaign of political violence and vandalism.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
The iCenter's recent Conflicts of Interest cohort gathering in Chicago. Participants were participating in a gallery walk of photos and texts, and accompanying audio clips, related to modern day and historical Israel.

Israel-Hamas War: Teaching and learning about the conflict - opinion

The iCenter is predicated on the belief that good education challenges people to broaden their scope of vision, venture beyond their 'silo,' and actively seek to engage with ideas that challenge.

|ByCARL SCHRAG, OR SHEMER
Hamas terrorists in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. February 4, 2025.

Hamas files application to be removed from UK terrorist group list

A team of British lawyers submitted the application, arguing the Hamas's armed violence is a legitimate response to alleged colonization, occupation apartheid and genocide.

|ByMICHAEL STARR

100 years later, how has the Balfour Declaration shaped Israel's conflicts?

At its centennial, scholars and descendants of the British statesman discuss the history of the Balfour Declaration and what it means today.

OCTOBER 29, 2017ByGOL KALEV
Arthur James Balfour

Labour's Jeremy Corbyn refuses to attend Balfour Celebration dinner

The Labour leader will instead send Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry in his place.

OCTOBER 29, 2017ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Britain's leader of the opposition Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn

Balfour line-up has disintegrated

Few of today’s Palestinians have any deep roots in Palestine.

OCTOBER 28, 2017ByRAYMOND APPLE
Christian worshippers in Jerusalem. ‘Early Christian writers spoke of a Jewish Restoration to the Holy Land. After the Reformation this became a movement. In English-speaking countries the 19th and early 20th centuries saw many strong Christian Zionists.’

Why Balfour’s biblical background matters

England was the first and only empire to control the Holy Land while acknowledging the Jewish people's legitimate claim to their historic homeland.

OCTOBER 28, 2017ByTULY WEISZ
British vehicles in Jerusalem near Mount Zion on the eve of Israel’s independence.

The Balfour declaration and Resolution 242

The documents provide a window into contrasting perspectives of the Arab-Israeli conflict and highlight the importance of the dual narrative.

OCTOBER 28, 2017ByMICHAEL COHEN
Lord Balfour declares the Hebrew University of Jerusalem open in painting by Leopold Pilichowski

COLUMN ONE: Balfour’s greatest of gifts

Israeli athletes and performers, professors, students and tourists in countries throughout the world are regularly discriminated against for being Israeli Jews.

OCTOBER 27, 2017ByCAROLINE B. GLICK
Arthur James Balfour

Israeli Arabs, Palestinians to protest Balfour Declaration

Arab-Israeli leaders to hold a protest outside the British Embassy in Tel Aviv to mark the century that passed since the Balfour Declaration.

OCTOBER 26, 2017ByBEN LYNFIELD
PALESTINIANS PROTEST the Balfour Declaration in Ramallah last week.

My word: The Balfour Declaration as work of art

The tragedy of the Palestinians does not stem from the Balfour Declaration.

OCTOBER 26, 2017ByLIAT COLLINS
WILLIAM BLAKE’S verses are part of ‘Jerusalem Dreams,’ by Jaqueline Nicholls at the Museum of the Underground Prisoners in Jerusalem.

The centennial of Balfour Declaration and Lord Balfour in Eretz Yisrael

The Balfour Declaration is actually a letter from Sir Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild with a notable sentence that inspired the aliya of many Jews around the world.

OCTOBER 26, 2017ByDAVID GEFFEN
The Balfour Declaration

The Centennial of the Balfour Declaration

...and Lord Balfour in Eretz Yisrael in 1925

OCTOBER 25, 2017ByDAVID GEFFEN
The Balfour Declaration