November 2 | 100 Years of the Balfour Declaration and its Impact on the Palestinian People

Professor Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and Co-director of the Center for Palestine Studies lectures at the United Nations on the Balfour Declaration and the impact it has had on the Palestinian people.

 

Speech starts at minute 08.20. 94% of Palestine did consist of Arabs, who were bereft of all political rights. These 94% were not recognized as a people and as a national identity by Britain in the Balfour Declaration. Speech by Professor Rashid Khalidi on political and colonialist Zionism, supported by the British Empire on the expense of the Palestinians.