Britain Palestine Project

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with Lana Ramadan from Save the Children, Ramallah and lawyers Jude Lanchin and Tareq Shrourou  Lana Ramadan is the Advocacy and Campaigns Senior Office at Save the Children International oPt country office. Lana has extensive technical expertise and knowledge on the detention file in the oPt context. She worked for several Palestinian human rights organizations before joining SCI, including...

Ali Awad is a 22 year-old activist from the village of Tuba in the South Hebron Hills. Becca Strober is a former soldier originally from Philadelphia. She is the Director of Education at Breaking the Silence.

Online talk given in March2022.  Abbas Milhem is the current Executive Director (since 2014) of the Palestinian Farmers’ Union, providing technical guidance and full supervision on project development and implementation processes for the 14 branches of the Union across the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Abbas previously worked with the Sudan Civil Society and Youth Participation (CSDY) Program as...

Online talk given in February 2022 Bashir Bashir is associate professor in the department of sociology, political science and communication at the Open University of Israel and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His primary research interests are nationalism and citizenship studies, liberalism, democratic theory, decolonization and the politics of reconciliation. Among o...

Online talk given in February 2022 Rula Jamal LLM - Head of Monitoring and Documentation at Al-Haq Dr Susan Power - Head of Legal Research and Advocacy at Al-Haq In 2021, the government of Israel designated al-Haq a 'terrorist' organisation, a decision condemned by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and B'tselem.

Conversation with Director Dror Moreh and Sir Vincent Fean about “The Gatekeepers”.

Wafa Dakwar - Programme Manager, Beirut, Medical Aid for Palestinians Rohan Talbot - Advocacy and Campaigns Manager, London, Medical Aid for Palestinians

Dominic Grieve is a barrister and a visiting professor on Law, Politics and Human Rights at Goldsmiths, University of London.  From 1997-2019 he was MP for Beaconsfield. He was Shadow Home Secretary from 2008-09 and Shadow Justice Secretary from 2008-10. He was Attorney General of England and Wales from 2010-14. From 2015-19 he was chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliamen...

Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist, currently for Haaretz, and author. Levy has won prizes for his articles on human rights in the Israeli-occupied territories. Levy was drafted into the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in 1974 and served as a reporter for Israel Army Radio. From 1978 to 1982, he worked as an aide to Shimon Peres, then the leader of the Israeli Labor Party. In 1982, he began to writ...

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....