100 Years Since the Balfour Declaration
Conference Videos and Resources
Interviews with Experts
- Conference Videos – February 28, 2017
- Refuting Balfour Detractors at the House of Commons
- More Resources
Conference Videos – February 28, 2017
Opening Remarks
Amb. Dore Gold – President, Jerusalem Center for Public Affair
Opening Remarks
Dr. Michael Borchard – Director, Israel Office of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
The Historical Paths to the Balfour Declaration
Prof. Andrew Roberts – Department of War Studies, King’s College, London; and Founding Member, Friends of Israel Initiative
Israel as a Strategic Asset to Britain
Col. Richard Kemp – Former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan
Was the Declaration a Legally Binding Document?
Prof. Ruth Lapidoth – Hebrew University, Israel Prize recipient
The Continued Relevance of the Balfour Declaration
Prof. Nicholas Rostow – Colgate University
From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the Rebirth of Israel in 1948 – Connecting the Dots from the Perspective of International Law
Dr. Jacques Gauthier – International lawyer and scholar, served as legal counsel to the governments of France, Spain, Mexico and Canada
From the Balfour Declaration to a Palestinian State?
Moshe Arens – Former Israeli Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs
Lessons for Diplomats from the Balfour Declaration
Amb. Daniel Taub – Director of Strategy and Planning at the Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild) Foundation in Jerusalem
How the Palestinians View the Balfour Declaration Today
Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser – Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Refuting Balfour Detractors at the House of Commons
Jerusalem Center Experts Refute Balfour Declaration Detractors at the UK House of Commons
On November 29, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and The Henry Jackson Society co-sponsored a standing-room-only event at the British House of Commons to refute Palestinian attempts to demand nullification of the Balfour Declaration.
More Resources
The Historical Significance of the Balfour Declaration
Amb. Dore Gold
Still Bickering Over Balfour
Amb. Dore Gold
“An Overwhelmingly Jewish State” – From The Balfour Declaration To The Palestine Mandate
Martin Gilbert
Winston Churchill’s Defense of the Balfour Declaration in 1921
Lenny Ben-David
The Jews: One of the World’s Oldest Indigenous Peoples
Amb. Alan Baker
Copy of the Balfour Declaration sent to Lord Walter Rothschild, November 2, 1917
Conference Participants
has spent most of his life combating terrorism and insurgency. He was Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan in 2003 and between 1979 and 2006 commanded troops on operations in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.
served as a member of Israeli diplomatic delegations to the United Nations General Assembly and to international committees. She participated in the negotiations for the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt and for the establishment of the multinational force in Sinai. In 2006 Lapidoth won the Israel Prize for Legal Research for her academic and public work.
is Charles Evans Hughes Visiting Professor of Government and Jurisprudence at Colgate University. He teaches courses in international law and American foreign policy. In addition, he is a Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Law School.
is the principal and founder of Gauthier & Associates, an international law firm established in Toronto, Canada, in 1984. He has spent decades promoting the legitimacy of the Jewish claim to Jerusalem under international law.
taught aeronautics at the Technion. From 1962 until 1971 he was Deputy Director General at Israel Aircraft Industries, and won the Israel Defense Prize in 1971. He served as Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S., 1982-83; Minister of Defense, 1983-84, 1990-92, 1999; Minister without Portfolio, 1984-88; and Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1988-90.
is an Israeli diplomat and international lawyer. He served as the Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2011 until 2015 and is currently Director of Strategy and Planning of the Yad Hanadiv foundation.
is Director of the Project on Regional Middle East Developments at the Jerusalem Center. He was formerly Director General of the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs and head of the Research Division of IDF Military Intelligence.