There is the evil, and there are the British!

The Balfour Declaration was issued 107 years ago today –
Here is what you need to know about the declaration that helped turn the Zionist aim of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine into a reality.

It was a public pledge by the UK declaring its aim to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.
The statement came in the form of a letter from the UK’s then-foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, addressed to Lionel Walter Rothschild, a figurehead of the British Jewish community.
It was made during World War I and was included in the terms of the British Mandate for Palestine after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
The system transferred rule from the territories previously controlled by the powers defeated in the war – Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria – to the victors, who would administer the newly emerging states until they could become independent.
In the case of Palestine – unlike the rest of the post-war mandates – the main goal of the British Mandate was to create the conditions for the establishment of a Jewish “national home” where Jews constituted less than 10 percent of the population at the time.
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Several high-profile protests have taken place over the course of the day to condemn the Balfour Declaration.

One of the most daring deeds was accomplished by the Human Rights group Palestine Action.

Palestine Action steals sculptures of Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, from the University of Manchester.

Weizmann secured the Balfour Declaration, a British pledge written 107 years ago today, which began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by signing the land away.

Weizmann described the indigenous Palestinian population as “the rocks of Judea, obstacles that had to be cleared on a difficult path”.

From the Balfour Declaration to today, Britain remains an active participant in the colonisation, genocide and occupation of Palestine.