97 Years Ago: Balfour & British Imperialism in Palestine

November 2nd marked the 97th anniversary of the 1917 Balfour Declaration declaring “His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” in a letter from U.K. Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to British Zionist partisan Lionel Walter Rothschild. This November's Special Focus covers Balfour, British imperial policy in Palestine and its effects on the Palestinian people.

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J. M. N. Jeffries, formerly a war correspondent in Europe and the Middle East, working for Britain’s largest-selling newspaper, the Daily Mail, was sent to Palestine in 1922 by its owner, Lord Northcliffe, to report on its developing political and economic affairs—just five years on from the Balfour Declaration and its promise of British support for the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish national home.

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