Trudy Gold
Why the Balfour Declaration?
Summary
On November 2, 1917, the British Government issued the Balfour Declaration. The circumstances that led to it are stranger than any fictional story, and the ramifications are still with us today.
Trudy Gold
Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.
Well, the Balfour Declaration is important because it’s ratified by the League of Nations, if the League of Nations has any import at all. But I think we’re going to find as we wind our way through all of this, it is a pretty meaningless declaration. “His Majesty’s Government views with favour "the establishment in Palestine of a national home.”