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The current divisions in world Jewry are not unprecedented. Long before there was a government in Israel to polarise opinions, there were divisions over the very idea of Zionism itself. The Balfour Declaration, issued by the British government in 1917, did not go down well with many Jews. The statement, expressing the government’s sympathy with ‘Jewish Zionist aspirations’ and ‘viewing with favour the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people i...