بلفور من اللاسامية إلى إنشاء وطن قومي لليهود

Abstract EN

The study aims to find out the impact of the intellectual, religious and political transformation on James Balfour.

His promise issued on November 2, 1917 in terms of his shifting from anti-Semitism, which appeared to have in 1905 and completely rejected the Jewish immigration to Britain.

Suddenly, he advocated for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine in 1917 through recognizing anti-Semitism at Balfour, the meeting of Chaim Weizmann with him on the national home, and learn how to prepare a text-homeland Balfour from the beginning and reaching the final version.

Then, analyzing how Balfour transformed from anti-Semitism to Semitism in accordance with the vision of historians.

The study adapted the methodology of the historical and analytical descriptive approach by going back to the reference of the most important of foreign and Arabic studies that dealt with the subject of Balfour transformation from anti-Semitism to Semitism and the events that took place during those years.

Based on the analysis of literatures, the study found that the Zionist influence on the British policy have a significant impact in declaring the establishment of a national country for the Jews.

Balfour transformation from anti-Semitism-to Semitism was due to more than one reason according to the vision of historians.

Some of them pointed out to religious reasons, some to the method of Weizmann persuasion, or duplication of reason between the British interest and the interest of Zionism regarding the establishment of a Jewish homeland, but it turns out the reason is to try to recover the Balfour political position in British politics ; after he lost his seat in the election in 1906 because of his rejection of immigration