"Adverts highlighting Palestinian objections to the Balfour declaration of 1917, when Britain promised to establish a Jewish national home in Palestine, have been blocked by Transport for London on the grounds that the issue is politically controversial...
TfL rejected the adverts because they 'did not comply fully with our guidelines,' a spokesman said. Clause 2.3(h) refers to 'images or messages which relate to matters of public controversy or sensitivity'. TfL also bans causes that are 'party political'...
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, demanded last year that Britain apologise for the Balfour declaration. The government said in April that it would not do so, adding that 'establishing a homeland for the Jewish people in the land to which they had such strong historical and religious ties was the right and moral thing to do, particularly against the background of centuries of persecution'..."