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Balfour Declaration

British politician Lord Arthur Balfour (1848 - 1930) points out a feature of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to Governor Sir Ronald Storrs during a visit to Jerusalem, 9th April 1925. The city's Arab residents were on strike as a protest against the Balfour Declaration supporting plans for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. (Photo by )

On This Day 100 Years Ago, Britain Promises Jewish ‘National Home’

The Balfour Declaration promised a homeland for Jews who had been persecuted by countries around the world.
By Micah Halpern
An Orthodox jew talks on his mobile phone as he walks past the Ahavas Torah synagogue in the Stamford Hill area of north London on March 22, 2015. Six people have been arrested after a group broke into a synagogue in a heavily Jewish area of north London, police said Sunday, describing the incident as anti-Semitic. Police were called to the synagogue in Stamford Hill, home to Europe's largest strictly Orthodox Jewish community, in the early hours of Sunday to reports of a disturbance. AFP PHOTO / NIKLAS HALLE'N

In Britain, a Growing Cancer of Israel Hatred

The rise of anti-Semitism in the UK is the product of a wave of Muslim extremism.
By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Israeli settlers protest outside their settlement of Kiryat Arba in the southern West Bank after a suspected Palestinian attacker stabbed to death a woman at her home in the Otniel settlement on January 17, 2016. A Palestinian broke into a West Bank Jewish settlement and stabbed Dafna Meir, a hospital nurse and mother of six, to death in her home, the Israeli army said, the first such incursion in a months-long wave of violence.

The Big Lie: Anti-Semitism and the ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’

Europe can't seem to forgive the Jews for the Holocaust.
By Ziva Dahl

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