Gudrun Kraemer
Professor of Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin, providing textual readings and contextual interpretation of the Balfour Declaration and Palestinian responses.
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Feb 9, 2026 • 29min
Israel and the Palestinians: 5. From WWII to the First Arab-Israeli war
Gudrun Kraemer, Islamic Studies professor with expertise on Palestinian society; Jeremy Bowen, BBC international editor and Middle East analyst; Simon Sebag Montefiore, historian of Jerusalem and modern history. They trace 1945–49: wartime Palestine, British immigration limits and Jewish armed campaign, the UN partition vote, civil war and Deir Yassin, Britain’s withdrawal, Israel’s declaration, Arab invasion and the creation of massive Palestinian displacement.
Feb 9, 2026 • 29min
Israel and the Palestinians: 4: The Balfour Declaration to the Arab Revolt
Gudrun Kraemer, Professor of Islamic Studies, offers close readings of the Balfour Declaration. Eugene Rogan, historian of the modern Middle East, traces Mandate politics. They cover the declaration’s ambiguity, British motives, growing Jewish immigration, rising Palestinian political mobilisation, the 1936 Arab Revolt, and the Peel Commission’s first partition proposal.
