Colin Shindler
The Balfour Declaration Revisited

Did Lloyd-George’s government issue the Balfour Declaration in November 1917 out of the goodness of its collective heart?
In addition to British national interests in a time of war, did genteel anti-Semitism and ‘the perceived power of international Jewry’ play a central role?
Was it an ‘historic error’ which led to a century of conflict between Zionist Jews and Palestinian Arabs?