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About James Renton

James Renton is Senior Lecturer in History at Edge Hill University and the author of The Zionist Masquerade: The Birth of the Anglo-Zionist Alliance, 1914-1918

Articles by James Renton

Wednesday 21st September

Palestine's UN bid: lessons from the history of Zionism

James Renton, 21 September 2011
'Historian James Renton suggests that this week's application for UN membership by the Palestinians could provide the moral and legal backing required to achieve the reality of statehood, much as the Balfour Declaration of 1917 laid the ground for the birth of the Israeli state in 1948.
Tuesday 21st December

WikiLeaks: imperial precedent

James Renton, 21 December 2010
The last time this happened, the British government was hoping to combine a modern-looking commitment to nation-building with the old imperial aim of political domination. Wilkileaks shows that all too little has changed.
Friday 19th March

Forgotten lessons: Palestine and the British empire

James Renton, 19 March 2010
While the conflict that is the legacy of British involvement in Palestine daily captures world headlines, Britain's foster-role is too often ignored. Such an omission is all the more tragic, James Renton argues, since mandate era misjudgements are being readily repeated.
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