The Balfour Declaration Is Another Colonial Distortion of History

The 100-year anniversary of one of Great Britain’s great betrayals is approaching. Professor Stuart Rees explains.

At the beginning of November, the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, an influential but highly deceitful historical document will be celebrated, certainly in Israel, probably in Australia.

In the United States and Australia, recent controversies over history have concerned attempts to reject past records, as in the destruction of monuments to defeated slave owners in the American civil war and in challenges to the alleged achievements of Captain Cook in Australia.

The 100-year-old false claims in the Balfour Declaration, which paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel, also need to be identified and rejected.

Read the article by Stuart Rees on New Matilda.