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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: A video posted on social media by the Palestine Action protest group showed a woman spraying red paint over the life-size ...

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 ...

Nov. 2 marked 100 years since former British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour sent a letter to Lord Rothschild, the first Jewish British MP, stating that the British government viewed with favor ...

FOR more than half a century — from 1874 to 1929 — Balfour was continuously, with the exception of three months, an active member either of the House of Commons or of the House of Lords. He held ...