When I told my grandmother that I was going to visit Europe for the first time, she exploded, “Oy vey!” Raising her voice, she exclaimed: “There’s nothing there! NOTHING! Just poverty and filth.” Collecting herself, she added: “You like foreign food? There’s better in New York.” For her generation of Jews, there was little nostalgia […]
… while Lord Sydenham warned: “What we have done, by concessions not to the Jewish people but to a Zionist extreme section, is to start a running sore in the East, and no-one can tell how far that sore will extend.” It extends all the way to this horror-show 106 years later. What the latest […]
As leaders from all around the world gathered to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of a war meant to end all wars, the aftermath of the bloody conflict nevertheless continue to resonate in many parts of the globe today.
Author and researcher Hanief Haider traces some of the trends and maneuvers from the pre-World War I era, such as Great Britain’s use of religious fervor to influence affairs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which persist today.
Before 2 November 1917 no public position had been taken on the future of Palestine by any government. Thereafter there …Continue reading →
Expectations inside the Jewish community in Britain leaped like the proverbial salmon in the first few weeks of November 1917. …Continue reading →
What we have clearly established about the Balfour Declaration is that it was the product of an Anglo-American collusion over …Continue reading →
Conscious that the final resolution to the war would be critical to the Zionist claims on Palestine, their British and …Continue reading →
Chaim Weizmann had a valuable friend, the journalist and editor, C.P. Scott. Later the proprietor of the Manchester Guardian, Scott …Continue reading →
The term Zionism was coined in the late nineteenth century to represent the movement for the return of the Jewish …Continue reading →
