AHC/WI: No Balfour Declaration

In 1917, the British government released the Balfour Declaration, in which it announced it's support for a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine, which would eventually become Israel.

This declaration incensed the native Arabs who were promised a united Arab nation stretching from modern day Syria to Yemen and led to the creation of the British Mandate of Palestine, which became the site of extreme friction between the Arabs and the Jews, especially those that came from Nazi-occupied Europe.

After the Holocaust, it became explicitly clear that the Jews needed a country of their own and on 14th May 1948, the State of Israel declared it's independence.

But what if the United Kingdom refused to have anything to do with the Zionists and refused to support the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine through the Balfour Declaration and what would need to happen for this support to not happen?
 
To prevent the Balfour declaration the british elites would have to be less antisemetic. The balfour declaration was written with the belief that World Jewry (TM) would then mobilize their puppet regime in the USA and communist/socialist mobs of Europe in support of the British during the Great War. If those same British policy makers did not really believe in Jewish power, they would never have expressed public support of the Zionists. Perhaps some enterprisng mid level bureaucrat would write up a secret correspondence with Weizman similar to the Hussein- McMahon papers . But remember the latter were never acknowleged as an " offical" goverment policy or commitment.
 
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