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.
Save Masafer Yatta – Email your MP here
Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that over 1,000 Palestinians can be forcibly evicted from their homes in Masafer Yatta, a community in the South Hebron Hills. Write to the Government to help stop this flagrant eviction of people from their home.
Enter your postcode and see the letter – send it to your MP in one click!
Latest: Recordings from our Abandoning Palestine
Watch the recordings and read the conference statement from our free two-day online conference on Abandoning Palestine: the end of the British Mandate and our continuing responsibility. More
Next Event: Masafer Yatta Update
The next in our FREE monthly webinar series is on Thurs 9 June, 3pm UK time -Urgent: halt evictions in Masafer Yatta with local activist Ali Awad and Breaking the Silence’s Becca Strober. More
Featured Article: Contradictory Promises, by Peter Shambrook
The seeds of 100 years of conflict. Britain, the Arabs and the Jews, 1914 – 1918. 2014 – 2018: Britain’s opportunity to acknowledge. More
Fellows Projects
This year's Balfour Project peace advocacy fellows' project proposals are now available to view. More
Book Review: A City in Fragments, Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem by Yair Wallach
Review by Menachem Klein. Rather than writing on the Zionist-Palestinian conflict or politics, Wallach looks at Jerusalem building inscriptions, the city dwellers’ coins, identification cards and bank notes, street naming, graffiti, the banners and flags of the Nabi Musa religious festival. Each of these has a chapter. More