Balfour Declaration

noun

1. 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

1. 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

Example Sentences

But if he does, the almost 100-year old Balfour Declaration offers some helpful language.

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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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