A group of Malaysian rights groups organized Friday morning a vigil in front of the British Embassy in Kuala Lumpur protesting against the century-old Balfour Declaration.
The participants called on the UK government to “openly apologize to the Palestinian people” over the declaration saying the UK’s colonial policy caused “mass displacement” and injustice.
They also stressed the Palestinian right of return to their homeland.
The demonstrators handed over a protest letter to the UK ambassador.
On November 2 1917 British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour wrote a letter to Britain’s Jewish citizen Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild expressing the government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
The letter came to be known as the Balfour Declaration.
