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Balfour Declaration
noun
- a statement, issued by the British government on November 2, 1917, favoring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews but without prejudice to the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.
Balfour Declaration
noun
- the statement made by Arthur Balfour in 1917 of British support for the setting up of a national home for the Jews in Palestine, provided that the rights of "existing non-Jewish communities" in Palestine could be safeguarded
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But if he does, the almost 100-year old Balfour Declaration offers some helpful language.
From The Daily Beast
Some of the British officials who supported the Balfour Declaration were influenced by their fantasies about global Jewish power.
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He's widely believed to have been the ghostwriter of the Balfour Declaration.
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Following the script, here on Open Zion Hussein Ibish called the Levy Report “The Anti-Balfour Declaration.”
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