The Balfour Declaration: What They Never Told You About 1917

Was the Balfour Declaration really just a British promise? On November 2, 1917, Britain declared its support for a Jewish national home in Palestine. But France, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, and even Pope Benedict XV had already expressed support for the idea of Jewish national restoration. JCFA’s Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch explains what happened next, from the 1920 San Remo Conference to the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. 109 years later, the history still matters. Learn more: https://jcfa.org/the-state-of-israels-legal-right-to-judea-and-samaria/