Part IX By 1900, Palestine was home to nearly 600,000 inhabitants, according to historian Kenneth W. Stein. The population was overwhelmingly Arab Muslim, but also

Part VIII A considerable amount of hostility that resulted with the increase of Jewish immigration to Palestine did not begin when the British government issued

Part VII While Arab leaders fomented attacks in Palestine against the Zionists, Shapira said other leaders went to London to protest the Balfour Declaration. On

Part VI There is a basic assumption that the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine began when the British issued the Balfour Declaration. This notion ignores the

Part IV The decision by the British and French to separate Palestine from Syria at the San Remo Conference in April 1920, in order to

Part III At the San Remo Conference in San Remo, Italy in April 1920, the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied Powers—Britain, France, Italy and

Highlighting: “October 7, Antisemitism and the War on the West” by Dr. Fiamma Nirenstein. Introduction by Dr. Dan Diker. Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign

Part II Why did the British support the establishment of a Jewish state? Historian Isaiah Friedman said that in 1908, Winston Churchill, then colonial under-secretary,

Part I On November 2,1917, British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur James Balfour sent a letter to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British

Part VIII By 1900, Palestine was home to nearly 600,000 inhabitants according to historian Kenneth W. Stein. The population was overwhelmingly Arab Muslim, but also

Part VII At the end of the 19th century, Palestine was a small area far from the heart of Europe but governed by the consulates

Part VI Palestinian Jews suffered discrimination and persecution from both Muslims and Christians. In a May 25, 1839 letter to Viscount Palmerston, British State Secretary