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- ICJ rules Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory illegal; Balfour Project urges UK support
- ICJ rules Israeli occupation illegal
- Upholding international law: dream or reality? With Dr. Ardi Imseis, Assistant Professor of Law, Queen’s University
- A New Judaism?
- Israel and Palestine – A durable peace must be based on human rights & justice
- UK Election 2024: the parties reply on Gaza
- Israel’s settlers on the rampage in Masafer Yatta threaten to obliterate Umm al-Khair
- Become a Friend of the Balfour Project
- The Zionist lobby’s war on telling the truth about Palestine
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Author Archives: Diana Safieh
‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza
By Oren Ziv, July 8, 2024 Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze and leaving corpses on the streets — all with their commanders’ permission In … Continue reading
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ICJ rules Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory illegal; Balfour Project urges UK support
Today, the ICJ has delivered its Opinion: the 1967 Israeli occupation is unlawful. The Balfour Project supports this Opinion and calls on the British Government to do so. In 2022 the UN General Assembly asked the ICJ two questions: What … Continue reading
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A New Judaism?
Menachem Klein explores how Israel’s rule over the Palestinians has created a new form of the religion Originally published in Logos. A fundamental question: “Are we, Israelis, still Jews?”, asked the philosopher Ernest Simon in 1953.[1] What looks like a … Continue reading
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Israel and Palestine – A durable peace must be based on human rights & justice
Tuesday 30th July at 3pm UK time Click here to register 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 … Continue reading
UK Election 2024: the parties reply on Gaza
In answer to the Balfour Project’s request to the four main Westminster parties for their positions on the Gaza situation and the wider crisis in Israel/Palestine, in particular the list of demands that emerged from our annual conference in London … Continue reading
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Israel’s settlers on the rampage in Masafer Yatta threaten to obliterate Umm al-Khair
The Balfour Project’s Lara Bird-Leakey reports on the latest settler raids in the South Hebron Hills and the imminent erasure of a Palestinian community “The worst day ever in Umm Al-Khair. The Israeli occupation forces are destroying people’s homes. So … Continue reading
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Become a Friend of the Balfour Project
Sign up to monthly donations of any amount to become a Friend of the Balfour Project. This helps with admin costs and planning our future, and entitles you to exclusive Friends meetings as well as discounted and free tickets to … Continue reading
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The Zionist lobby’s war on telling the truth about Palestine
LOBBYING FOR ZIONISM On both sides of the Atlantic By Ilan Pappe ONEWORLD ISBN 978-0-86154-402-8 £30, $40 US Review By Peter Oborne, 20 June, 2024 (First published by Middle East Eye) No review has yet been published of Professor Ilan … Continue reading
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What the Government must do to uphold equal rights
Vincent Fean May I draw your attention to a strong new economic document called Palestine Emerging. You will find it on a website:a website: www.palestine-emerging.org. It’s not a political document, but it is based on the assumption that there will … Continue reading
How young people bring about change
Kira Nygren, Adrian Kreutz, Lily Wood (Balfour Project Peace Advocacy Fellows), chaired by Matan Rosenstrauch (Fellowship Programme Coordinator) Kira Nygren – Settler Violence in Area C Adrian Kreutz – Israel Arms Suspension Lily Wood – Israel Arms Suspension, Recognise Palestine, … Continue reading
Imad Karam and Mohammed Ghalayini: Gaza testimony
Imad Karam I was born and brought up in Gaza. I’ve lived in Britain for the last 22 years. My whole family is in the north of Gaza today. More than 70 of my relatives have died. The latest one … Continue reading
Introductions
Adam Sutcliffe, Professor of History, King’s College London My research is on Jewish history and on Jewish/non-Jewish relations. I’ve written on the history of antisemitism. I’ve also written and edited a book on the history of philosemitism – the tradition … Continue reading
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Israeli authorities, Palestinian armed groups responsible for war crimes, grave violations of international law, UN Inquiry finds
The June-July 2024 report of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, primarily on Gaza and Southern Israel but also including the West Bank and East Jerusalem, finds that on 7 Oct last year, … Continue reading
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Church Times Letter to the Editor: Pensions Board and Palestinians
Letter to the Editor, Church Times, 7 June 2024 From the Rt Revd Michael Doe (Balfour Project Trustee), the Very Revd Nicholas Frayling (Chair of the Balfour Project Advisory Forum), and the Rt Revd John Pritchard (Balfour Project Patron) Sir, … Continue reading
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Agnes Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International
Transcript from our ‘Peace with Justice – how to get there’ Conference in London on 6th June 2024. Since October we have been plunged back to a future we don’t want, one we were all promised would never recur. The 1948 Universal … Continue reading
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Middle East Peace
The Times of London has published this letter from John Bond, a founding member of the Balfour Project and a member of the Balfour Project Advisory Forum. Sir, I disagree with the assertion in your leading article that any democratic government … Continue reading
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The challenges ahead, with Daniel Levy and Nour Odeh
Transcript from our ‘Peace with Justice – how to get there’ Conference in London on 6th June 2024. Daniel Levy Confusion reigns since President Biden gave his ceasefire speech on 31 May. The White House then issued a statement signed … Continue reading
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Gaza war ‘may be a curtain call’ for international order, Amnesty chief warns
Israel’s war on Gaza may be “a curtain call” for the post-World War Tw0 international rules-based order, Amnesty International secretary general Agnes Callamard said on Thursday. “The gravity of the violations being committed, the fact that we are witnessing them … Continue reading
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Urge your candidate to commit for British recognition of Palestine NOW
Britain must recognise Palestine. It is a step towards upholding the Palestinian right of self-determination – a fundamental right under international law. Most UN member states have already recognised Palestine. Recognition cannot be dependent on negotiations, as the British Government … Continue reading
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CONFERENCE: Peace with Justice – how to get there
Download Conference Photographs Conference Summary Report Conference Action Plan Email Your MP on Recognition of Palestine Thursday 6 June 2024 at Bush House KCL and online Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG Scroll to the bottom of the page … Continue reading
KS3-5 Source Analysis Masterclass
‘Colonial Practices and Resistance in Mandatory Palestine 1922-1948’ This KS3-5 source analysis masterclass empowers students with the tools – critical source analysis training – and informed historical knowledge, to decipher and interrogate historical narratives and representations of Palestine and Israel. … Continue reading
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What We Offer
BP Education Aims Develop students’ critical thinking skills and knowledge of 20th and 21st century Palestine and Israel including Britain’s historic and continuing responsibility. Encourage and support the formal teaching of the history of Palestine and Israel in schools. Find … Continue reading
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An expose of Israel’s covert war on the ICC
Top Israeli Government and security officials have overseen a nine-year surveillance operation targeting the International Criminal Court and Palestinian rights groups to try to thwart a war crimes probe, reveals a joint investigation by +972, Local Call and The Guardian … Continue reading
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Like Ireland and more than 140 other countries, it is time the UK recognised the state of Palestine
Article in The Independent, 27 May 2024 For more than a century, Britain has shown scant respect for Palestinian rights, says our former envoy in Jerusalem, Sir Vincent Fean – we must now play our part in creating a framework … Continue reading
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Escaping Rafah: a Palestinian on the run
Sami abu Salem, fleeing south down Gaza with his family, pursued by the Israeli war machine—bombs, drones, rockets, snipers—finds himself in Rafah. He reports here to Mike Joseph, who is chronicling Sami’s plight for the Balfour Project.
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Balfour Project Action Points for UK Government
Peace with Justice – how to get there Email your MP on Recognition of Palestine 6 June Conference Tickets & Info Balfour Project Action Points for UK Government The Hamas attack of 7th October 2023 and the on-going Israeli destruction … Continue reading
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Balfour Project calls on Britain to back the International Criminal Court
The announcement by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan KC, that he has applied for arrest warrants against the Israeli Prime Minister and Defence Minister as well as three Hamas leaders over the events of 7 October … Continue reading
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Email your MP to push for British recognition of Palestine NOW
Palestinian self-determination is key to the wellbeing of Palestinians – and of Israelis. The British Government has wasted 10 years and more, waiting for “the right time” to recognise the State of Palestine. Now is the time to recognise Palestine, … Continue reading
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Queen Rania of Jordan: ‘What’s happening in Gaza today… is a war crime’
Special guest Queen Rania of Jordan discusses the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the Israel-Hamas war in this exclusive one-on-one with The ReidOut on MSNBC. “What’s happening in Gaza today… is a war crime,” Queen Rania tells Joy Reid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDxe9JFsfzc&ab_channel=MSNBC
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Getting aid into Gaza with Mr Andrea De Domenico, Head of OCHA in the OPT
1st May 2024 Watch webinar Listen to audio/podcast 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, … Continue reading
Israel’s Government is eliminating the Green Line – with money
Budget by budget, law by law: from forcing mobile phone companies to expand coverage in the occupied territories to laws that facilitate the transfer of public funds to settlements, Netanyahu’s far-right government is working towards de facto annexation By Tali … Continue reading
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Gaza A Story Of Love And War – with Mike Joseph and Sami Abu Salem
https://youtu.be/uApMOQxAJGc GAZA A Story of Love and War is on cinema release from August 14 2024 [Certificate 12A] Two journalists meet to share stories over a Zoom link. One is Welsh and unable to get into Gaza. The other is Palestinian … Continue reading
The true story behind the ethnic cleansing of the Nakba
War was the Zionists’ choice in 1948, writes Balfour Project Trustee and historian John McHugo. And Israel must acknowledge its responsibility towards the Palestinians who were turned into refugees…more than 70 per cent of Palestine’s population at the time. Click here to … Continue reading
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Violent Israeli settler purges of Palestinians in South Hebron Hills under Gaza war cover
‘It is hard to describe it as anything but ethnic cleansing’ By Donald Macintyre If you wanted someone to illustrate the Palestinian concept of sumud you could have done a lot worse than Halima Jaber Nawaja sitting in front of her house … Continue reading
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Open Letter to Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch and Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron
Sign our letter Dear Trade Secretary and Foreign Secretary, Together we are urging you to immediately halt arms licences and exports to the Government of Israel. This is just one crucial step towards helping to secure a permanent and immediate ceasefire for all … Continue reading
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For the love of God, this war must stop… and it must stop now
The killing of aid workers in Gaza was a wake-up call for those countries still arming Israel. But by steadfastly refusing to suspend its weapons sales, the British Government has brought shame upon us all, writes the Bishop of Southwark … Continue reading
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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, the Israeli magazine +972 and Hebrew-language news site Local Call reveal. … Continue reading
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Netanyahu is not the only one interested in prolonging the war
A broad coalition of political forces, from Israel’s far right to the Zionist left, have differing motivations for turning the war into the new normal By Menachem Klein 9 April, 2024 For most Israelis, the war has become routine. They … Continue reading
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UK should stop sending arms to Israel
By Peter Ricketts in The New Statesman, 9 April 2024. On 28 August 1995 five shells landed in the marketplace in Sarajevo killing 43 civilians. The Bosnian civil war had dragged on for more than three years, but this incident … Continue reading
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Life, violence and destruction under Israel’s settlers: Masafer Yatta tells its story
Visit to UK by the Mayor of Masafer Yatt Nidal and Owde with Ambassador Husam Zumlot from the Palestinian Mission. 25 February – 2 March 2024 Sponsored by the Balfour Project By Lara Bird-Leakey Setting the scene In February, 2024, … Continue reading
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An end to the killing in Gaza: global Christian leaders’ letter
As Christians enter into Holy Week, Church leaders from around the world have signed a letter calling for an end to the killing in Gaza. The Balfour Project, which brings together people from all faiths and none, has asked one … Continue reading
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Belated UN ceasefire call over Gaza – a start, but insufficient
26 March 2024 Andrew Whitley, Chair of the Balfour Project The Balfour Project warmly welcomes UN Security Council resolution 2728 demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the lifting of all restrictions on the urgent provision of humanitarian aid, at … Continue reading
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What price the two-state solution? with Sir Vincent Fean
16th April 2024 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 … Continue reading
Middle East Studies Association speaks out against cultural genocide
Published by Jewish Voice for Labour on Sat 16 Mar 2024 MESA Board Joint Statement with CAF regarding the ongoing genocidal violence against the Palestinian people and their cultural heritage in Gaza The Board of Directors of the Middle East … Continue reading
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Resist! Palestinian women and non-violent resistance to occupation with Rula Salameh
21st March 2024 Watch Video Listen to Audio/Podcast 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 … Continue reading
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Nidal Younis Exposes Israel’s Silent Ethnic Cleansing of the West Bank
Nidal Younis is the mayor of Masafer Yatta and head of the Masafer Yatta village council. He has been active in attempts to save his community since the 1990s. Interview recorded February 29 2024. Masafer Yatta is a Palestinian hamlet … Continue reading
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Statement of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, to the General Assembly
4 March 2024, New York I am here today because UNRWA, the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees, is at a breaking point. Seventy-five years after its creation by this Assembly as a temporary UN entity, pending a just political … Continue reading
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Britain must fight back now against Israel’s political onslaught on UNRWA
By Andrew Whitley, Chair of Balfour Project Trustees Often an old piece of furniture is so familiar that it’s only when it is no longer there that one realises how invaluable it was – and how much it will be … Continue reading
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The UN experience in Gaza
By Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Editor of Foreign Affairs Published on July 1, 1957 It would be wrong to call the United Nations experiment in administering the Gaza Strip a failure; the experiment was never made. Some preparations for it were … Continue reading
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