Balfour Declaration

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
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.
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
Arthur James Balfour

This week in Jewish history: Balfour Declaration and battle of Sharm el-Sheikh

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.

|BySTEVEN DRUCKER

No apologies for Balfour

To assail the Balfour Declaration as an act of colonialism is not only historically inaccurate, it would also call into question the claims to sovereignty of a number Arab nations.

OCTOBER 30, 2017ByDAVID PARSONS
RABIN SQUARE with a British flag on the Tel Aviv City Hall building

October 31, 2017: Jerusalem Annexation Bill

On the Jerusalem annexation bill, the Balfour decleration and Haredi Jews.

OCTOBER 30, 2017ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

Why they protest Balfour

“Anti-Balfour” activity must principally be seen as part of a global campaign to delegitimize Israel’s very foundations.

OCTOBER 30, 2017ByJONATHAN HUNTER, YOSEFF SHACHOR
‘A GENERATION of young people may be almost entirely unaware of the context behind the Balfour Declaration – and why the British government’s pledge was a remarkably humanitarian gesture for its time.’

Century-old bonds

The battle of Beersheba and the Balfour Declaration are now 100 years old, how do Australian-Israeli and British-Israeli relations look today?

OCTOBER 30, 2017ByJPOST EDITORIAL
UK AND Israeli flags together at a march in London.

Comment: Balfour’s real victory came at Beersheba

Historians have recorded how General Allenby had given each of his soldiers a Bible, and he was often found on his knees looking for direction from above.

OCTOBER 30, 2017ByBENJAMIN GLATT
Descendants of soldiers from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), ride horses along the trail that their ancestors took as troops when they made their way to Beersheba.

REALITY CHECK: Of blood feuds and Balfour

Reflections on a trek to Albania’s Accursed Mountains region.

OCTOBER 30, 2017ByJEFF BARAK
AN ALBANIAN man looks at a bunker that dates back to the Hoxha era.

October 30, 2017: Sabbath and the High Court

The holy and the law, judges, and Balfour.

OCTOBER 30, 2017ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

PA prime minister to UK: Apologize for Balfour

The United Kingdom should apologize for issuing the Balfour Declaration, says Hamdallah.

OCTOBER 30, 2017ByADAM RASGON
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah

Why are Zionists celebrating unfulfilled promises?

Instead of “facilitating” Jewish statehood as Balfour had pledged, the British were now blocking it. If a Jewish state were to come into being, it would be despite British obstruction of the Balfour

OCTOBER 29, 2017ByRAFAEL MEDOFF
As Arab armies mobilized and the Arab League’s secretary-general vowed to carry out ‘a war of extermination and momentous massacre’ of the Jews, the UN stood idly by

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