Much of modern scholarship on the decision to issue the declaration focuses on the Zionist movement and rivalries within it, with a key debate being whether the role of Weizmann was decisive or whether the British were likely to have issued a similar declaration in any event.
Gran parte da erudición moderna, sobre a decisión de emitir a declaración, céntrase no movemento sionista e as rivalidades dentro del, cun debate clave para saber se o papel de Weizmann foi decisivo ou se os británicos probablemente emitisen unha declaración similar en calquera caso.