San Remo Centenary - Information and Resources
The Centenary of the San Remo Conference, which was held from 19 to 26 April 1920 is this year. It was an even more important step in the creation of the modern State of Israel than the Balfour Declaration.
At this conference the Allied powers agreed on the future of the Middle East territories liberated from the Turkish Empire. The vast majority was assigned for the creation of new Arab States under British or French mandates, but Palestine was allocated for the reconstitution of the Jewish National Home, under a British Mandate.
The agreement transformed the policy expressed in the Balfour Declaration from a unilateral aspiration of the British Government into a binding international agreement.
UKLFI VIDEO EVENT - 26 APRIL 2020
'100 years of San Remo and Jewish Self Determination'
Natasha Hausdorff explains how the San Remo Conference rebuts the myth of Israel as a colonialist entity and recognised the millennia-long association of Jews with the Land of Israel.
From Aberystwyth to San Remo’ - The Birth of International Politics and the Jewish National Home by Dr James Vaughan
This talk explores the contribution of British academics, particularly those associated with the founding of the discipline of International Politics, to the establishment of the Jewish National Home after the Great War. It demonstrates how scholars like Alfred Zimmern and Sir Charles Webster combined idealistic internationalism and a ‘Wilsonian’ belief in the rights of small nations to self-determination with an ability to bridge the worlds of academia and politics, both through their connections to Chaim Weizmann and the Zionist Organization, and in their role as participants in the making of the post-war settlement.
San Remo's Promise Fulfilled
Prof. Eugene Kontorovich explains how 100 years after the San Remo Conference, the world - lead now by the U.S. - is beginning to make good on its promises to the Jews to allow "settlement" throughout mandatory Palestine.
San Remo and the "Two-State solution" by Andrew Tucker
The commonly-accepted "Two-State" paradigm alleges that "the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza" are occupied territories; that they do not belong to the territory of Israel; and that they are (or are to become) the territory of the State of Palestine. But this paradigm based on a flawed legal analysis. We need to return to the San Remo resolution and the Mandate for Palestine in order to understand the legal status of these territories, that has since 1920 been shrouded in mystery and uncertainty.
San Remo and "settlements" by Dr Matthijs de Blois
The Mandate for Palestine and Memorandum by the British Government relating to its application to Transjordan, approved by the Council of the League of Nations on September 16th 1922Press here for the document
Video showing first-hand testimony by one of the British diplomats who was actually in the negotiation rooms about how the Emir Faisal and Lawrence of Arabia both supported the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Israel, and how the document known as the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement came about: