# Balfour Declaration

> public statement written by Arthur Balfour issued by the British government in 1917 in support of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine then an Ottoman region

**Wikidata**: [Q187152](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187152)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/balfour-declaration


## References

1. Virtual International Authority File
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
3. BBC Things