‘Balfour’ Centenary in the Media


 

A selection of 100 publications on the occasion of
the “Balfour” centenary.

Opinion/educational

 20 October 2017 – The Palestinian Information Center, by Chris Doyle

Britain broke its promise to the Palestinian people

23 October 2017 – Washington Report On Middle East Affairs, by Allan C. Brownfeld

The Balfour Declaration at 100: Remembering Its Prophetic Jewish Critics.

24 October 2017 – The Palestinian Information Center, by Jeremy Salt

Ugly Truths Behind Balfour and Beersheba

25 October 2017 – IMEMC

Who Wrote the Balfour Declaration and Why: The World War I Connection

26 October 2017 – The National Scotland, by B McKenna Dumbarton

Letters: Should the Balfour Declaration really be a source of pride?

26 October 2017 – Christian Today, by Bishop Declan Lang

The Balfour Declaration at 100: Britain’s promise to Israelis and Palestinians still hasn’t been kept

28 October 2017 – Huffington Post, by James Zogby

Balfour Declaration: A Convergence Of Zionist Ambition And The British Imperial Enterprise

28 October  2017 – Bangkok Post, by Gwynne Dyer

Balfour Declaration and 100 years of bloody conflict 

29 October 2017 – Al Jazeera

100-years balfour declaration explained

29 October 2017 – Middle East Eye, by Peter Oborne

100 years after Balfour: The reality which still shames Israel

29 October 2017 – Labourlist

Why the Balfour declaration is steeped in the history of the Labour Party

29 October 2017 – Middle East Monitor, by Asa Winstanley

Overthrow the Balfour Declaration

30 October 2017 – Middle East Monitor, by Ben White

Balfour celebrations a reminder that the colonial past is not past

30 October 2017 – Middle East Monitor

UK public support for Balfour Declaration drops during centenary year

31 October 2017 – Middle Eat Eye, by Amandla Thomas-Johnson

The Balfour Declaration dissected: 67 words that changed the world

1 November 2017 – The Palestinian Information Center

Hamas: Balfour Declaration crime of century

1 November 2017 – Middle East Monitor, by Dr Basheer M. Nafi

Why the Balfour Declaration did not promise a Jewish state

1 November 2017 – The Guardian, by Mahmoud Abbas

Britain must atone for the Balfour declaration – and 100 years of suffering

1 November 2017 – Palestine Square, by Yousef Munayyer

It’s Time To Admit That Arthur Balfour Was A White Supremacist — And An Anti-Semite Too

2 November 2017 – Middle East Eye, by Jonathan Cook

Britain still proud of its shameful role as patron of Israel’s occupation

2 November 2017 – Muftah, by Oscar Jarzmik

Israel Marks 100 Years Since Balfour Declaration With “Greater Jerusalem” Scheme

2 November 2017 – Middle East Eye, by Kamel Hawwash

What if Wales had been offered to the Jews as a homeland?

2 November 2017 – The Palestinian Information Center

Euro-Med: Britain responsible for century-long violations in Palestine

2 November 2017 –  The Palestinian Information Center

Will Britain ever apologize?

2 November 2017 – Middle East Eye, by Mustafa Abu Sneineh

See Palestine then and now, 100 years after the Balfour Declaration

2 November 2017 – Middle East Monitor, by Jade Saab

100 years since Balfour and foreign policy remains very much the same

2 November 2017 – Al Jazeera

Balfour: UK government ‘should hang its head in shame’ 

2 November 2017 – The Guardian, by Hanan Ashrawi

A century on from Balfour, I challenge Britain to finally do the right thing

2 November 2017 – Al Jazeera

What Balfour means to Jewish critics in Israël

3 November 2017 – Middle East Monitor, by Ramona Wadi

The normalisation of colonial violence is in tune with Balfour’s infamous letter

3 November 2017 – Middle East Monitor, by Nadia Naser-Najjab

The Balfour Declaration and contemporary echoes of imperialism

3 November 2017 – Middle East Monitor, by Hossam Shaker

100 years since the Balfour Declaration: Symbolic humiliation and the creation of tragedy

3 November 2017 – Indy 100 (Independent)

Which countries recognise Palestine?

3 November 2017 – MWC News, by Richard Falk

Balfour, Then and Now

3 November 2017 – Counterpunch, by Jonathan Cook

Balfour Declaration: Britain Broke Its Feeble Promise to the Palestinians

7 November 2017 – Middle East Monitor, by BenWhite

Praise and protest: Reflections on how the Balfour centenary was marked

7 november 2017 – The East African, by Jenerali Ulimwengu

Britain had its say a 100 years ago, the Palestine question has no answer yet

8 November 2017 – Middle East Monitor, by Dr Amira Abo El–Fetouh

Between the Balfour Declaration and Trump’s declaration

8 November 2017 – Middle East Eye, by Susan Abulhawa

The Balfour Declaration: Enduring colonial criminality

8 November 2017 – Canadian Dimension, by Dan Freeman-Maloy

Balfour at 100: A Legacy of Racism and Propaganda

11 November 2017 – Daily Mirror, by Jonathan Power

Zionism’s undoing; the aftermath of the Balfour Declaration.


Centenary gala dinner in London

25 October 2017 – Independent, by Ashley Cowburn

Theresa May says she will celebrate the centenary of Balfour declaration with ‘pride’

26 October 2017 – Independent, by Michael Segalov

It’s not ‘antisemitic’ for Jeremy Corbyn not to celebrate the centenary of the Balfour Declaration – it’s sensible

28 October 2017 – IMEMC – Corbyn Refuses To Attend Balfour Dinner

http://imemc.org/article/corbyn-refuses-to-attend-balfour-dinner/

31 October 2017 – The Palestinian Information Center

UK celebration of Balfour Declaration insistence on historic injustice

2 November 2017 – The Guardian, by Patrick Wintour and Peter Beaumont

May lauds UK role in creation of Israel at Balfour centenary dinner

3 November 2017 – Times of Israel

Full text of May’s speech at Balfour Declarationcentenary dinner

7 November 2017 – Middle East Monitor, by Ramona Wadi

Israeli manipulation mirrors Balfour’s endeavours


Protests, campaigns, lectures and demands for apologies

Balfour 100

An overview of events

18 February 2017 – Middle East Monitor

Petition: UK government should ‘apologise’ to Palestinians for Balfour Declaration

3 May 2017

Petition: UK must apologise for the Balfour Declaration & lead peace efforts in Palestine

18 October 2017 – Middle East Eye, by Chris Doyle

Britain broke its promise to the Palestinian people – on Balfour’s centenary it should make amends

25 October 2017 – The Palestinian Information Center

Protest in The Hague at Balfour Declaration 100th anniversary

29 October 2017 – Al Arabiya

British activists walk from UK to Palestine to apologize for Balfour declaration

29 October 2017 – Middle East Monitor

Palestinian PM demands British apology for Balfour

30 October 2017 – Middle East Monitor

Palestinian campaign to force UK to cancel Balfour celebrations

30 October 2017 – Middle East Monitor

UK Labour MP: ‘Mark’ Balfour centenary by recognising Palestine

31 October 2017 – Middle East Monitor

Palestinians to send 100,000 letters to UK PM denouncing Balfour Declaration

31 October 2017 – Middle East Monitor

Middle East Monitor -Banned anti-Balfour ad campaign runs on London’s black cabs

31 October 2017 – The Palestinian Information Center

UK celebration of Balfour Declaration insistence on historic injustice 

2 November 2017 – Middle East Monitor

PA seeks support to sue UK over Balfour Declaration

2 November 2017 – Middle East Monitor

Banksy gets ‘royal apology’ for Balfour Declaration

2 November 2017 – Middle East Eye

Protests and celebrations mark Balfour centenary as letter still stirs controversy

2 November 2017 – The Palestinian Information Center –

Demonstration in Ankara asks UK to get rid of Balfour shame

2 November 2017 – The Palestinian Information Center

Palestinians in WB mark 100th anniversary of Balfour declaration

2 November 2017 – Middle East Monitor, by Dr Mohsen M. Saleh

Why should Britain apologise for the Balfour Declaration?

2 November 2017 – Palestine Square – Rashid Khalidi

Balfour Declaration Must be Matched by National Home for Palestinians

2 November 2017 – Pacific Press Agency, by Matteo Nardone

Italy: 100 years from the Balfour Declaration Sit-in organized by the Palestinian Community of Rome and Latium in front of the English Embassy

3 November 2017 – Middle East Eye, by Mustafa Abu Sneineh

Palestinians to the UK government: ‘Ask us for forgiveness’

3 November 2017 – The Palestinian Information Center

Protest at British Embassy in Kuala Lumpur against Balfour declaration

3 November 2017 – Middle East Monitor

Archbishop of Canterbury reminds UK of its broken promise to Palestinians

3 November 2017 – Middle East Monitor

100 ‘Decolonise Palestine’ posters appear in London for Balfour centenary

3 November 2017 – The Palestinian Information Center

Palestinians protest in Gaza against Balfour Declaration

3 November 2017 – The Palestinian Information Center

Aqsa preacher asks Britain to confess its historical crime

3 November 2017 – The Palestinian Information Center

Protest in Istanbul on centenary of Balfour Declaration

3 November 2017 – Middle East Monitor

Corbyn urges ‘increasing pressure’ on Israel in Balfour centenary statement

5 November 2017 –  The Palestinian Information Center

Thousands take to London streets over tragic upshots of Balfour pledge

7 November 2017 – The Milli Gazette

Apologise to the Palestinian People: Memorandum to the British PM about Balfour Declaration The following memorandum was handed to the British High Commissioner’s representative in Kuala Lumpur on Friday 3rd November 2017

14 November 2017 – Samidoun

London protest outside #Balfour100 celebration rings out with demands for justice for Palestine


Pro-Balfour

9 January 2017 – Balfour 100

Balfour Centenary Israel Tour

5 June 2017 – Mosaic, by Martin Kramer

The Forgotten Truth about the Balfour Declaration

11 October 2017 – The Jerusalem Post, by Barry Davis

The Balfour Declaration Revisted

28 October 2017 – The New York Sun, by Rich Richman

How the Balfour Declaration Has Emerged at the Crux Of the War Against Israel

28 October 2017 – Press TV

UK reportedly holds Balfour Declaration event in Israel with no fanfare

30 October 2017 –  The Law Society Gazette, by Michael Cross

Balfour and the law

30 October 2017 – UK Government, by Boris Johnson

My vision for Middle East peace between Israel and a new Palestinian state: article by Boris Johnson on the Balfour Declaration

30 October 2017 – Breitbart, by Simon Kent

Britain Proud of Balfour Declaration: 100 Years On, Says it Created ‘Great Nation’ of Israel

1 November 2017 – The Palestinian Information Center

UK calls for more waivers to accomplish Balfour declaration

1 November 2017 – Mosaic

The Balfour Declaration Is Important Because It Recognizes Something Already There

2 November 2017 – Haaretz, by Amir Tibon

Congress to Vote on Resolution Supporting Balfour Declaration

2 November 2017 – Independent, by Samuel Osborne

Israeli deputy foreign minister denies Palestinians live under occupation: ‘This is Judea and Samaria’

3 November 2017 –  The Algemeiner

Balfour Declaration Represented ‘Hope for Mankind,’ Says Ex-Secretary of State Kissinger

13 November 2017 – The Jewish Chronicle, by Danni Rich

Balfour centenary: What is our hope and vision?


Videos/movies/books

28 June 2017 – The Palestine Chronicle, review by Jim Miles

Balfour’s Shadow – A Book Review

30 October 2017 – The Palestinian Information Center

PRC releases Balfour Road movie

2 November 2017 – VIDEO

PM Netanyahu and British PM May at Balfour Declaration Centenary Event

3 November 2017 – VIDEO

Banky’s Tea Party

3 November 2017

Book Review | The Palestine Deception, 1915-23, edited by William Mathew

6 November 2017 –  VIDEO Daid Cronin Balfour’s Shadow

speech Amsterdam

6 November 2017 – VIDEO

Thousands march in London to condemn Balfour celebrations

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