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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 369

Balfour Declaration

A combination of image grabs taken from a video released by a protest group called Palestine Action on March 8, 2024 shows an activist spraying red paint and then slashing a painting of Lord Arthur James Balfour at Trinity College in Cambridge.(Photo by Handout / Palestine Action / AFP)
March 8, 2024, 10:07 pm
UK pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activist spray-paints, slashes historic portrait of Balfour
Palestine Action calls its vandalism at Cambridge U. a protest against 1917 declaration that help pave way for Israel, saying it marked start of ‘ethnic cleansing in Palestine’
By AFP and ToI Staff
A pro-Palestinian protestor squirts tomato ketchup on a statue of Lord Arthur Balfour, in the House of Commons, London, November 12, 2022. (Video screenshot; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law.)
November 13, 2022, 6:01 pm
2 pro-Palestinian activists squirt ketchup on Balfour statue in London, are arrested
Demonstrators tarnish effigy of former PM in Parliament to mark anniversary of 1917 declaration, in which Britain backed a Jewish homeland in Palestine
By ToI Staff
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on October 19, 2019 (Tolga AKMEN / AFP)
November 21, 2021, 9:18 am
Shin Bet intel instrumental in UK’s terror designation of Hamas – report
Officials from Israel’s domestic spy agency said to have met with British counterparts, provided intelligence on key figures and funding mechanisms to Gaza-based group
By ToI Staff
Palestinian boys line up to register for a summer camp organized by Hamas's military wing, the Iz-Ad Din Al-Qassam Brigades, in Gaza City, on June 14, 2021. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
November 19, 2021, 9:38 pm
UK’s ban on Hamas said to be significant blow to funding for terror group
Hamas slams move as ‘a new crime committed by Britain against our Palestinian people’; decision reportedly formalized during talks between Bennett and Johnson in Glasgow
By ToI Staff
Arab-Israeli parliament member Osama Saadi reacts during a debate at the Interior Affairs committee meeting, on November 10, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 2, 2021, 10:46 pm
Joint List MK decries ‘cursed’ Balfour Declaration on anniversary
Osama Saadi says key milestone in establishment of the Jewish State is not a cause for celebration: ‘The Jewish people has its own home and the Palestinian people do not’
By ToI Staff
Palestinian children from the Aida refugee camp attend an event held by secretive British street artist Banksy to apologize for the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, on November 1, 2017, at his Walled-Off Hotel in Bethlehem in the West Bank. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
November 2, 2021, 6:28 pm
Columnist in official PA daily calls for ‘ending colonial Zionist project’
As anniversary of historic Balfour Declaration neared, PA President Mahmoud Abbas also ordered Palestinian flags flown at half-mast in protest of ‘injustice’
By ToI Staff
Postcard with the Balfour Declaration in Hebrew translation, published by Ya'ackov Ben-Dov, Bezalel, Jerusalem, created by Shmuel Ben David (Davidov), c. 1917. (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
November 2, 2021, 4:03 am
Holocaust survivor publishes PhD dissertation on ‘serendipity’ of Balfour
Paul Goldstein, whose studies were interrupted in WWII, became one of the oldest doctoral recipients in the world when he graduated last year from Israel’s Ariel University
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The Guardian offices in London (CC-BY WordRidden, Flickr)
May 8, 2021, 1:48 am
The Guardian: Backing Balfour Declaration among our ‘worst errors of judgment’
In list of all-time ‘mistakes,’ UK daily says modern-day Israel ‘isn’t country it foresaw or would have wanted’; Jewish leadership blasts ‘breathtakingly ill-considered’ position
By ToI Staff
Arthur Balfour, and the Balfour Declaration. (Wikipedia)
October 23, 2020, 1:24 am
Palestinian lawyers file lawsuit against Britain for 1917 Balfour Declaration
Activists file charges in West Bank court, say British support for Jewish national home at root of Palestinian suffering; claim they’ll take matter to London, demand accountability
By ToI Staff and AFP
Former Israeli Air Force general and leading critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Brig. Gen. Amir Haskel poses for a photo in Tel Aviv, on June 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
October 6, 2020, 10:25 pm
Anti-Netanyahu protest leader accused of racism after comments to Ethiopian cop
Amir Haskel faces criticism from government officials after video surfaces in which he tells policewoman: ‘I brought your parents from Ethiopia, aren’t you ashamed?’
By ToI Staff
British high commissioner John Chancellor, far left, with princess Illeana of Romania and other personages in his garden, circa 1930. (Public domain)
June 13, 2020, 3:14 pm
Diaries reveal overwhelmed British officials in Palestine wanted to go home
Sarcastic, exasperated entries show Mandate-era leaders appalled by Arab violence, repulsed by Jewish ‘arrogance,’ espionage; sides seen as ‘childish,’ heralding today’s conflict
By Steven E. Zipperstein
Delegates at the San Remo Conference in April 1920 (screenshot YouTube)
April 27, 2020, 6:48 am
On centenary, San Remo Conference hailed as ‘seminal moment’ in Zionist history
World leaders praise April 1920 summit as first anchor of Jewish state’s legitimacy in international law; Pompeo says it marked world’s embrace of Jews’ unbreakable ties to Israel
By Raphael Ahren
Edwin Montagu/ Lord Balfour's writing desk, at Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv (Ziko/Wikipedia)
February 9, 2019, 2:49 pm
How a curious love triangle spurred UK’s cabinet to pass the Balfour Declaration
Back in 1917, Jewish Cabinet minister Edwin Montagu furiously blocked declaring Palestine a Jewish homeland, but his marriage to a former PM’s fatal attraction shifted the scales
By Robert Philpot
Britain's Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn waves as he arrives at party headquarters in London, Friday, June 9, 2017, after the general elections (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
August 20, 2018, 12:21 pm
Corbyn, who sought Israel’s demise, is an anti-Semite. Labour must kick him out
He backed a group that called ‘to eradicate Zionism’; he’s likened Israeli policy to the Nazis’; his party can’t accept the world definition of anti-Semitism because he breaches it
By David Horovitz
In this file photo taken on June 19, 2018 Palestinians watch on a big screen the Russia 2018 World Cup Group A football match between Russia and Egypt at at a coffeehouse in Gaza City. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
July 6, 2018, 6:29 pm
Palestinian resentment of UK bubbles over into England-Sweden World Cup support
In Gaza, soccer fans express 100 years of frustration against British for their support for a Jewish state; ‘Anyone supporting England is supporting Israel itself,’ says one man
By AFP
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