Palestinians mark 100 years since Balfour Declaration in the UN

While people in Gaza and the West Bank took to the streets in protest against the 100-year-old Balfour Declaration which contributed to the establishment of the State of Israel, Palestinian representatives slammed the document in the UN building in New York.A prominent American pro-Palestinian historian declared on Thursday that the document written in 1917 by Lord Balfour was, for the Palestinians, “a gun pointed directly at their heads” and “constituted a declaration of war by the British Empire on the indigenous population of the land.”Be the first to know – Join our Facebook page. Rashid Khalidi is an Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University; he is also a former PLO adviser. He was invited by the UN Palestinian Rights Committee to give his perspective on the Balfour Declaration and the impact it has had on the Palestinian people. A large number of diplomats participated in his lecture in the UN headquarters in NY, which was also open to the public and was broadcast live by  Palestinian TV.

 

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