Britain Palestine Project

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy is it to go shopping? Farah Nabulsi is an Oscar nominated and BAFTA Award-Winning Palestinian British filmmaker, born, raised and educated in the UK. She left the corporate world in 2016 to start working in the film industry as a wri...

In light of the Israeli Government decision to designate 6 Palestinian human rights organisations as “terrorist”, Jonathan Kuttab has kindly agreed to devote the first part of his talk on Thursday at 3 pm (U.K.) to this crisis. Jonathan co founded al-Haq, one of the 6 organisations targeted by Israel. He will update us on the situation, and propose ways in which civil society – including the Churc...

Hannah is the director and a founder of Yachad . Yachad works to mobilise British Jews in support of a political resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She previously chaired the Jewish Social Action Forum for two years, bringing together leading Jewish communal organisations to develop the community’s social action agenda and also worked as a consultant for the Pears Foundation.

Sir Vincent Fean is 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. What brings...

Panel discussion with director of Tinderbox Gillian Mosely, Amos Trust trustee Robert Cohen and Balfour Project executive committee member Tim Llewellyn. Click here to visit the official Tinderbox website for information about future screenings.

Sophie Bridger served as a Human Rights Monitor with the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel in 2019. During her time in the West Bank, she observed numerous human rights violations, and witnessed the impact of ongoing occupation on children and local families. Since her return, she has talked about what she witnessed in the West Bank and advocated for a just peace in the re...

Eugene Rogan is Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at Oxford University, where he has taught since 1991, a Fellow of St Antony’s College and Director of the Middle East Centre. He took his B.A. in economics from Columbia, and his M.A. and Ph. D. in Middle Eastern history from Harvard. In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. He is author of The Arabs: A History (2009, 2017),...

Day 2 of the Balfour Project's free online conference - Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law. Case studies introduced by Michael Lynk: Gaza – Issam Younis The settlement project – Hagit Ofran Palestinian children in Israeli military detention – Sahar Francis Accountability – Nada Kiswanson Followed by panel discussion and Q&A Our Mission: Acknowledging Britain’s historic and continui...

Day 2 of the Balfour Project's free online conference - Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law. International Law: indispensable in the search for a just Middle East peace – Prof Michael Lynk Our Mission: Acknowledging Britain’s historic and continuing responsibilities to uphold equal rights for the Israeli and Palestinian peoples through popular education and advocacy.  To persuade t...

Day 1 of the Balfour Project's free online conference - Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law. Our Mission: Acknowledging Britain’s historic and continuing responsibilities to uphold equal rights for the Israeli and Palestinian peoples through popular education and advocacy.  To persuade the British Government to recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel.

Day 2 of the Balfour Project's free online conference - Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law. Can international law prevail in Israel/Palestine? The role of the UK  –  Rt Hon Jack Straw Our Mission: Acknowledging Britain’s historic and continuing responsibilities to uphold equal rights for the Israeli and Palestinian peoples through popular education and advocacy.  To pers...

Day 2 of the Balfour Project's free online conference - Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law. Our Mission: Acknowledging Britain’s historic and continuing responsibilities to uphold equal rights for the Israeli and Palestinian peoples through popular education and advocacy.  To persuade the British Government to recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel.

Day 1 of the Balfour Project's free online conference - Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law. Why a rights-based approach makes a just, lasting political solution more likely, and why now – Zaha Hassan The dual legal system in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and the role of the Supreme Court of Israel – Michael Sfard Discussion between Zaha Hassan and Michael Sfard, moderated by Domi...

Day 1 of the Balfour Project's free online conference - Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law. Presentation by Philippe Sands, Followed by discussion and Q&A with Balfour Project Trustee John McHugo and Dominic Grieve QC   Our Mission: Acknowledging Britain’s historic and continuing responsibilities to uphold equal rights for the Israeli and Palestinian peoples through popular ed...

Day 1 of the Balfour Project's free online conference - Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law. Welcome with Sir Vincent Fean and Dominic Grieve QC and Baroness Brenda Hale on Why the rule of law matters.   Our Mission: Acknowledging Britain’s historic and continuing responsibilities to uphold equal rights for the Israeli and Palestinian peoples through popular education and advocacy....

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Listen to our Chair Sir Vincent discuss the escalation of violence in the region.

I have received reports that some Instagram users in Jerusalem are facing censorship, presumably by Instagram itself, which is owned by Facebook. Palestinians have reported that recently, when they write Instagram messages about the wave of evictions of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem, their messages are recorded as having been sent – but do not reach their followers on Instagram. This is a...

Nadia Hijab is co-founder and President of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, the transnational Palestinian think tank. She is a writer, public speaker and media commentator. Her first book, Womanpower: The Arab debate on women at work was published by Cambridge University Press and she co-authored Citizens Apart: A Portrait of Palestinians in Israel (I. B. Tauris). She was Editor-in-Chie...

Northern Ireland & Israel/Palestine: what two differing paradigms can teach us about conflict resolution John Lyndon is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP), the largest network of peacebuilding NGOs in Israel/Palestine. He brings with him over a decade of experience leading NGOs concerned with conflict resolution and international development, with a particula...

Munther Isaac is a Palestinian Christian pastor and theologian. He now pastors the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem. He is also the academic dean of Bethlehem Bible College, and is the director of the highly acclaimed and influential Christ at the Checkpoint conferences. Munther is passionate about issues related to the Palestinian theology. He speaks locally and internationally...

Raja Shehadeh is a lawyer and writer and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq. Shehadeh is the author of several acclaimed books published by Profile Books including the Orwell Prize-winning Palestinian Walks, as well as Strangers in the House; Occupation Diaries; Language of War, Language of Peace; A Rift in time; Where the Line is Drawn and his most recent b...

Dr. Ardi Imseis is an Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University. He is a Member of the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen, a UN Human Rights Council commission of inquiry mandated to investigate violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in the civil war in Yemen. Between 2002 and 2014, he served in senior legal and policy capacitie...

Leila Sansour is a Palestinian/British filmmaker with more than 24 years of experience working in television as a producer, director and writer. She is best known for her two feature documentaries released across cinemas in the UK and internationally to a high critical acclaim- “Jeremy Hardy vs The Israeli Army” 2003 and “Open Bethlehem” 2014. Before moving into independent films, Leila worked as...

Balfour Project Chair, Sir Vincent Fean, will be giving his impressions on how the US election results will affect the situation in Palestine/Israel. Sir Vincent Fean is member of the British Diplomatic Service (DS) 1975-2014, his last post was as Consul-General, Jerusalem (2010-14), responsible locally for British Government relations with the Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories...