Britain Palestine Project

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...

Daniel (Danny) Seidemann has lived in Jerusalem since 1973. He has been a member of the Israeli Bar Association since 1987. Since 1991, he has specialized in the geopolitics of contemporary Jerusalem, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the city. Danny and his colleagues founded, Terrestrial Jerusalem, and are frequently consulted by senior decision-makers and governmental bodies on matters pe...

The Balfour Project and  Sadaka, the Ireland Palestine Alliance , jointly presented this timely webinar. While the world’s attention is on the Gaza war, very bad things are happening fast in the West Bank. Susan Power, Head of Legal Research and Advocacy at Al-Haq in Ramallah, analysed the Israeli lockdown of the West Bank and the licence given to settler violence and forced displacement of Palest...

Avi Shlaim is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine (1988); War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History (1995); The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (2000, updated edition 2014); Lion of Jordan: Th...

Online webinar hosted on 21 November 2023 In Search of the River Jordan  is the new book by award-winning writer and journalist James Fergusson. Travelling through Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, Fergusson describes how historic water resources such as the Jordan River and the Dead Sea have been diverted or depleted, and how the unequal competition for remaining water resources dominates the lives...

The 29th of September marks the centenary of when the League of Nations ‘Mandate Agreement’ for Palestine entered into force in international law.  This legal instrument purported to put the commitment to establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine made by Arthur Balfour in the eponymous Declaration of 1917—then merely a non-legally-effective statement—on a sound international legal footing.  It p...

An epic journey to uncover a Holocaust inheritance leads relentlessly to discovering a Nakba inheritance: two catastrophes that are very different, but very connected. Can they both be heard and understood? With personal testimony, letters and memories by those who survived and those who did not, this challenging audio series is dramatised and narrated by broadcaster Mike Joseph.

2023 CONFERENCE: Human Rights in Palestine: Responsibility and Accountability Wednesday 17 May at Church House, London

2023 CONFERENCE: Human Rights in Palestine: Responsibility and Accountability Wednesday 17 May at Church House, London

2023 CONFERENCE: Human Rights in Palestine: Responsibility and Accountability Wednesday 17 May at Church House, London

Separate & Unequal—Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch Access to Health—Melanie Ward, Medical Aid for Palestinians Children’s Rights & Child Prisoners—Miranda Cleland, Defense for Children International—Palestine Freedom of Movement, Expression and Assembly—Shawan Jabarin, Al-Haq 2023 CONFERENCE: Human Rights in Palestine: Responsibility and Accountability Wednesday 17 May at Church House, Lon...

2023 CONFERENCE: Human Rights in Palestine: Responsibility and Accountability Wednesday 17 May at Church House, London

2023 CONFERENCE: Human Rights in Palestine: Responsibility and Accountability Wednesday 17 May at Church House, London

Richard Falk is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor's Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Falk has published extensively with multiple books written about international law and the United Nations. John Dugard is a South African professor of international law. His main academic specialisations are in Roman-Dutch...

Matthew Teller’s “Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City” (Profile Books, 2022) was named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph. Matthew writes for the BBC, Guardian, Independent, Times, Financial Times and other global media. He has produced and presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and World Service, and has reported for Radio 4’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ from arou...

Ambassador (ret.) Ilan Baruch is chairperson of the Policy Working Group (PWG), an Israeli advocacy team focusing on policy issues pertaining to the achievement of peace between Israel and Palestine based on the two-state paradigm. PWG members are all volunteers and come from senior diplomatic, academic, political, media and human rights backgrounds. On March 1st 2011, Baruch resigned from the Isr...