The painting depicts Arthur Balfour, author of the 1917 declaration that established Britain's aim to create a Jewish state in Palestine. Members of the activist group Palestine Action spray-painted ...

Pro-Palestine protesters slashed a historic painting at the University of Cambridge on Friday, 8 March. Footage shows Palestine Action spray-painting a 1914 piece depicting Lord Arthur Balfour, who ...

With Israel embroiled in a war against Hamas, this week’s anniversary of a pivotal moment in the revival of Jewish sovereignty is not likely to draw much attention. The urgency of the present moment ...

The Forverts did not care much for the Balfour Declaration, the November 2 letter that pronounced British support for a Jewish home in Palestine, in the heat of World War One. Forverts editor Ab Cahan ...

One hundred years ago — on November 2, 1917 — the British Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour, issued a letter to the British Jewish leader, Lord Walter Rothschild, pledging British support for “a ...

The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer: The pogroms against the Jews that were conducted by the Russians in the Pale of Settlement in southwest Asia in the late 1880s led to ...