”Second San Remo conference” reaffirms Israel´s legal right to exist as a Jewish homeland

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"...in recent years several respected international lawyers and scholars, among them Jacques Gauthier and Howard Grief, have helped raise awareness of the legal foundation of the modern state of Israel which came into effect when the Balfour declaration was incorporated into international law by the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers in San Remo in 1920 and later approved unanimously by the League of Nations at the Peace Conference in Lausanne in July 1922.
”- At a time when even the core existence of Israel as a Jewish state is being challenged by its enemies it is of vital importance that we take a closer look at international law,” said conference organizer Tomas Sandell from the European Coalition for Israel. He then reminded the audience that ”the San Remo Resolution of 1920 recognized the national Jewish sovereignty on the land of Israel under international law, on the strength of the historical connection of the Jewish people to the territory previously known as Palestine.”

”- This marked the end of the longest colonization in history,” noted Salomon Benzimra from Toronto. ”Palestine has been occupied and colonized by a succession of foreign powers for about 1,900 years (Romans, Byzantines, Sassanid Persians, Arabs, Crusaders, Mameluks, and Ottoman Turks). This early episode of liberation, which preceded the global decolonization process by more than thirty years, should be welcome by all progressive minds.”
The primary objective of the commemoration event was to raise awareness of the historical facts about the legal foundation of the Jewish state which dates back to the San Remo conference of 1920 and precedes the Israeli declaration of Independence by 28 years."