Balfour Declaration

When

2 Nov 1917

Kind

Event

Coordinates

31.63° N, 35.15° E

Placed at the district its text puts it in, Palestine.

Zionism: The British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour makes the Balfour Declaration, proclaiming British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..., it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".

British government statement of 1917

The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small Jewish minority among an overwhelming Arab majority, mostly Muslim but also including Christians.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “第一次大戦: イギリスがバルフォア宣言を発表（ユダヤ人国家建設を約束することに同意）”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page