Balfour Declaration Archives - Voice of the Cape

International day of solidarity with the Palestinian people

Ahead of International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians on Wednesday 29th November, there is a need for a sober reflection on the violence and racism that has permeated across Palestinian society for the past 100 years since the Balfour Declaration. So says the Claremont Main Road Mosque’s Imam Rashied Omar, in discussing the history-altering document, which set in motion the occupation of Palestine. The 2nd of November 1917 marked the […]

24 November 2017

International News

Balfour Declaration at 100: From Ramallah to Pretoria

People in various parts of the world have staged protests on the centenary of Britain's Balfour Declaration, which promised a homeland for Jewish people and paved the way for the occupation of Palestine. Thousands gathered in Ramallah on Thursday, the administrative capital of the occupied Palestinian territories, to march to the British cultural centre there, according to the official Palestinian media. A statement from the office of President Mahmoud Abbas […]

3 November 2017

Opinions

Balfour 100 years on: Britain’s colonial legacy

OPINION by Salma Yaqoo We live in a dangerous world. This is the reality in which Prime Minister Theresa May wants to carve out a future as a "truly global Britain" after Brexit to "reach beyond the borders of Europe" and play an even more international role. But surviving in a dangerous world - let alone doing any good for yourself or others - requires the ability to learn from […]

2 November 2017

Events

Film on Balfour Declaration screened in SA

This Thursday, 02 November, marks exactly 100 years since the issuing of the fateful Balfour Declaration on Palestine - 100 years since Britain signed over a country that it did not own, thereby sowing the seeds for the mass dispossession of the Palestinian people, and the ongoing Nakba in the Holy Land. It is essential for anyone genuinely seeking justice in Palestine to understand the context of the Balfour Declaration […]

2 November 2017

International News

Palestine activists press UK to apologise for Balfour declaration

Pro-Palestinian activists on Saturday called on the British government to apologise for the "disastrous" role of the Balfour declaration in the "biggest social injustice of our time" - decades of Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. Speakers at the Palestine conference at University College London said the centenary of the 1917 declaration was the right time to make amends. Salma Karmi-Ayyoub, a criminal barrister and external consultant for the Palestinian human […]

5 March 2017

Balfour Declaration

International day of solidarity with the Palestinian people

Balfour Declaration at 100: From Ramallah to Pretoria

Balfour 100 years on: Britain’s colonial legacy

Film on Balfour Declaration screened in SA

Palestine activists press UK to apologise for Balfour declaration

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