Tag: Jewish National Home

Pro-Palestinian protesters recently vandalized a portrait of Lord Balfour at Trinity College in Cambridge, England, due to his authorship of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, which supported establishing a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.
The article discusses the Blackstone Memorial, a petition presented to President Benjamin Harrison in 1891 by William Blackstone, urging him to support Jewish settlement and the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
In a discussion on the Tel Aviv Review, Noah Efron, Gilad Halpern, and Charlotte Hall evaluate the centennial of the Balfour Declaration, with its continued controversy regarding the Jewish right to a national home in Palestine.
On a podcast discussing the Balfour Declaration's centennial, Noah Efron, Gilad Halpern, and Charlotte Hall deliberate its ongoing controversy, Meretz party leaders claiming their party is no longer Zionist, and a Supreme Court ruling allowing stores to open on the Sabbath in Tel Aviv.
In 1944, American Zionism faced a pivotal moment as support for the cause shifted from a bipartisan stance to becoming a political battleground between Republicans and Democrats competing for Jewish votes.