PA libel: The Balfour Declaration was "a complicated act of fabrication" to "invent 'the Jewish people'" who "did not exist until that point"
Excerpt of a column by Bassem Barhoum, regular columnist for the official PA daily
Headline: “Analyzing the vagueness and the details of the Balfour Promise”
“The [Balfour] Promise (i.e., Declaration)…is the summary of a large and dangerous colonialist project that indicates a complicated process through which a people – ‘the Jewish people’ – was invented that did not exist until then in history, but rather there were simply Jews of different races and nations (sic., the Jewish people have been documented in history for millennia, and genetic research has proven Jews share a common origin in Israel).
In the framework of a complicated act of fabrication, the project included establishing a national homeland for the Jewish people, which was just invented, establishing this homeland on the homeland of another people. The establishment of the Jewish homeland will not take place except through the negation of the ownership of the land, taking the Palestinian people’s land, and expelling it from its homeland. This is because the Balfour project cannot be carried out without a large transfer of residents (a process of ethnic cleansing) [parentheses in source] and forcibly settling new residents in their place.”