Britain Palestine Project

The Humanitarian Impact of LawlessnessSam Rose – Director of Strategic Planning, UNRWA; Acting Director of UNRWA Operations in Gaza, followed by Q&A

Upholding the Rule of LawBaroness Brenda Hale (Former President of the UK Supreme Court) and Baroness Helena Kennedy KC (Human rights lawyer and Member of the House of Lords)Michael Sfard – Israeli human rights lawyer

Opening and Welcome, by Chair Professor Adam SutcliffeContext and Aims of the Conference, by Andrew Whitley, Chair of Trustees, Britain Palestine Projectfollowed byH.E. Dr. Husam Zomlot – Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK

with Tom Swarbrick, 5pm Thursday 20 March 2025

20th February 2025Dr. Lex Takkenberg will spell out the basic facts about the Agency’s mandate, history and work on behalf of Palestinian refugees. A Dutch National, he is Senior Advisor on the Question of Palestine at ARDD, Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development, in Amman. From 1989 until 2019, he worked in various field and headquarters positions with UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian...

Miranda’s mother was a secular Jewish refugee from the Holocaust in 1938. She was always bitterly opposed to what was being done to the Palestinians in her name as a Jew. Because of that, Miranda became an Ecumenical Accompanier in 2009, spent 3 months in Hebron, and has been back many times since. She is a member of the Holocaust survivor Descendants Network and attends demonstrations under that...

Thair Abu Ras is a PhD candidate at the department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. A Palestinian citizen of Israel, Thair has extensive experience in civil society in Israel. Thair worked for Mossawa – The advocacy centre for Arab citizens in Israel’, “Sikkuy-Aufoq: a shared Jewish and Arab nonprofit organisation that works to advance equality and partnership between the...

Online talk given 14th November 2024   Jonathan Kuttab is a co-founder of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq and co-founder of Nonviolence International. A well-known international human rights lawyer, Jonathan practices in the US, Palestine and Israel. He serves on the Board of Bethlehem Bible College and is President of the Board of Holy Land Trust. Jonathan was the head of the Legal Comm...

24th October 2024 Helena Cobban  is a writer and researcher on international affairs who lives in Washington DC. In 1984, Cambridge U.P. published her seminal study  The Palestinian Liberation Organisation . Three of her six other sole-authored books dealt with political and strategic developments in the Arab-Israeli theatre, the rest with more global matters. For 17 years she contributed a regula...

Sir Vincent Fean on Times Radio on 8 October 2024

Tamara El-Halawani  is a research assistant at the SOAS ICOP project and a recent MSc graduate in International Politics from SOAS University, London. She is currently completing a dissertation on ‘The Erasure of Palestinians on social media.’ Prior to joining ICOP, she worked as a reporter for The Conduit in London and served as a parliamentary staffer for her local constituency in the House of C...

with Kristyan Benedict, Crisis Response Manager for Amnesty International UK Kristyan Benedict manages Amnesty International UK’s Crisis Response Programme, focusing on armed conflict, mass repression, and UK foreign policy. His work has involved working with and supporting activists and human rights defenders from a range of countries and regions, including Israel/Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, China...

Join us for an exclusive Friends of the Balfour Project meeting, 'Upholding International law - dream or reality?' with international law expert Dr Ardi Imseis and Andrew Whitley (Chair of the Trustees) and Sir Vincent Fean (Trustee). Ardi will speak on the prospects in the two ICJ cases, and on the ICC warrants request. He will then take questions from our Friends. Ardi Imseis Dr. Ardi Im...

  Dr Phyllis Starkey (Vice Chair, Balfour Project ), Chris Doyle (Director, CAABU), Yasmine Ahmed (UK Director, HRW), Nour Odeh, chaired by Sir Vincent Fean (Trustee, Balfour Project), followed by Q&A Closing Statement -Dr Phyllis Starkey   Part of our Peace with Justice – how to get there conference on 6 June 2024 at Bush House, London.

How young people bring about change—The Balfour Project Peace Advocacy Fellowship Programme Presentation chaired by Matan Rosenstrauch (Fellowship Programme Coordinator) Part of our Peace with Justice – how to get there conference on 6 June 2024 at Bush House, London.

Keynote Speaker – The UN, Human Rights and Gaza Dr Agnès Callamard (General Secretary, Amnesty International), followed by Q & A Part of our Peace with Justice – how to get there conference on 6 June 2024 at Bush House, London.

The Gaza War: A Humanitarian Disaster with Mohammed Ghalayini (Gazan scientist, Amplify Gaza Stories) Part of our Peace with Justice – how to get there conference on 6 June 2024 at Bush House, London.

The challenges ahead Daniel Levy (President, US/MEP) & Nour Odeh (National Democratic Assembly, Palestine) & followed by Q&A Part of our Peace with Justice – how to get there conference on 6 June 2024 at Bush House, London.

Welcome from Adam Sutcliffe (Professor in European History, King's College London) & Andrew Whitley (Chair, Balfour Project) Part of our Peace with Justice – how to get there conference on 6 June 2024 at Bush House, London.

Andrea De Domenico brings more than twenty years of experience in humanitarian assistance and emergency relief both in the field and in headquarters. Between 1998 and 2005 he has worked in Albania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kosovo and Pakistan with various NGOs managing humanitarian and relief programs and operations in different sectors. Andrea joined OCHA in 2005 in DRC where he initiall...

Sir Vincent Fean is a retired member of the British Diplomatic Service (DS) 1975-2014. His last post was as Consul-General, Jerusalem (2010-14). Before Jerusalem, he was Ambassador to Libya, and previously High Commissioner to Malta.  Vincent advocates equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians, and British Government recognition of the state of Palestine alongside Israel on pre-June 1967 lines. H...

Rula Salameh is a veteran journalist, community organiser, and the Education and Outreach Director in Palestine for Just Vision, an organisation that fills a media gap in Israel-Palestine through independent storytelling and strategic audience engagement.  She produced three of Just Vision’s films - Budrus (2009), My Neighbourhood (2012), and Naila and the Uprising (2017) - and has led the team’s...

Nadav Tamir is the Executive Director of J Street Israel and an Advisor for International and Governmental Affairs at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation. Nadav served as the Senior Policy Adviser to the President of Israel during the last 3 years of the presidency of Shimon Peres. Nadav returned to Israel in 2010 after serving as the Consul General of Israel to New England at the Consulate...

with Claire Nicholl (Save the Children), Tareq Shrourou (Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights) and Jude Lanchin (solicitor). All links to reports can be found here www.balfourproject.org/injustice Claire Nicholl is Save the Children’s Regional Humanitarian Policy & Advocacy Lead for the Middle East. She has been working with the agency’s team in the occupied Palestinian territory for many year...

Professor Nick Maynard trained at Oxford University, Guy’s Hospital, London, and Melbourne, Australia. He is a Consultant Upper GI Surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, and Associate Professor of Surgery at Oxford University. He set up the Oxford Oesophagogastric Cancer Centre in 1997 and is the Senior Surgeon and Clinical Lead. From 2021 to 2023 he was President of the Association of...