Balfour Project evidence to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry
Submitted 30 Dec 2024
I hope you can find time to read the evidence we have submitted to the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) inquiry into UK policy on Palestine/Israel. It is here and there is a link below, with the FAC’s permission. If you agree with our submission, please consider forwarding it to your MP.
It is an attempt to encourage our MPs and thus our Government to adopt a policy based on international law independent of the US Administration, which has already shown its contempt for basic rights and law by advocating the ethnic cleansing of 2.2m Palestinians from Gaza. My email of 10 Feb 2025 offered a view on how our Government should respond.
Please also consider attending our half-day conference from 2pm on 8 May: “The Rule of Law: the route to a better future for Palestinians and Israelis”. We can accommodate 200 people who book tickets for the event at King’s College London’s Strand campus and many more on-line. Confirmed speakers include Lady Hale (former President of the UK Supreme Court), Blinne Ni Ghrálaigh KC (an Irish barrister who represented South Africa in its genocide case application to the ICJ) and Dalal Iriqat (a prominent Palestinian professor from Ramallah). You can sign up here.
With very best wishes,
Andrew Whitley
Chair of trustees, Balfour Project
Read written evidence submitted by the Balfour Project Charity (IPC0039)