On November 2, 1917, Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour wrote a letter that made history.

“Our policy may fail; I do not deny that this is an adventure. Are we never to have adventures? Are we never to try new experiments?” Arthur Balfour said, in an address to the House of Lords, ...

It has been 100 years since the Balfour Declaration – issued by the British government on Nov. 2, 1917 – offered the first international recognition of Jewish national aspirations. In many ways, its ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In 2015, Tobias Ellwood, Britain's foreign and commonwealth affairs ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. At the time Lord Balfour made his famous declaration on behalf of His ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They are now on view at the National Museum of American Jewish History So it's no wonder that the declaration is one of the focal ...

The ceremony marking the completion of their reinterment took place exactly 109 years after the Balfour Declaration.

Why does the Balfour Declaration, written in 1917 during the darkest days of World War I, tug at our elbow, insisting we pay attention to it? Indeed even today, “Operation Protective Edge” in Gaza ...

The Guardian newspaper released a list of their “worst errors of judgment” over the past 200 years on May 7, which included their support of the Balfour Declaration. The article, which was written by ...

GREGORY WILPERT: Welcome to the Real News Network. I’m Gregory Wilpert, joining you from Quito, Ecuador. 100 years ago on November 2nd, 1917, Earl Arthur Balfour, Foreign Minister of the British ...

The British peer Arthur Balfour barely makes an appearance in UK schoolbooks, but many Israeli and Palestinian students could tell you about him. His Balfour Declaration, made on 2 November 1917, is ...

This year we’re marking the centenary of the Balfour Declaration and I’ve been speaking around the country about Jewish opposition to Balfour both in 1917 and today. Jewish opposition to Balfour is ...