Britain Palestine Project

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Britain Palestine Project episodes

February 17, 2022 Bashir Bashir on Equal Rights for All in Palestine/Israel
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 other numerous publications, he is the co-editor of The Holocaust and Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History (Columbia University Press, 2018); and The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2020). His writings have appeared in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Italian, and German.
Bashir's Publications:
Interrogating Modernity and Egalitarian Binationalism in Palestine/Israel
The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History
The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond
1 hr 5 min
February 01, 2022 Dr Susan Power & Rula Jamal LLM from Al Haq – Under Threat: Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Face Effects of Designations
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.
1 hr 13 min
January 27, 2022 Conversation with Director Dror Moreh about “The Gatekeepers”.
Conversation with Director Dror Moreh and Sir Vincent Fean about “The Gatekeepers”.
48 min
January 25, 2022 Rohan Talbot & Wafa Dakwar from MAP- The plight of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Wafa Dakwar - Programme Manager, Beirut, Medical Aid for Palestinians
Rohan Talbot - Advocacy and Campaigns Manager, London, Medical Aid for Palestinians
1 hr 3 min
December 16, 2021 Launch of Israel/Palestine: In Search of the Rule of Law Conference Souvenir Brochure
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 Parliament.
Nada Kiswanson is a Swedish lawyer of Palestinian origin. She serves as counsel for hundreds of Palestinian victims before the International Criminal Court. Kiswanson has worked on the occupation of Palestine for over a decade, for and alongside human rights organisations. During that time she has explored numerous justice and accountability mechanisms for violations committed in Palestine.
Hagit Ofran works at the “Settlement Watch” project at the Israeli peace movement of “Peace Now”. Widely-recognised as one of Israel’s foremost experts on a full range of issues related to West Bank settlements and settlement-related developments in East Jerusalem, Hagit’s work includes traveling daily throughout the West Bank, examining aerial photos and browsing official Israeli documents. The “Settlement Watch” project serves as a resource for Israeli politicians, diplomats, international media organizations, and first and foremost – for the Israeli public.
1 hr 5 min
December 09, 2021 Gideon Levy & Sarah Helm: Israel/Palestine - telling it like it is
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 write for the Israeli daily Haaretz. In 1983–87, he was an assistant to the editor-in-chief.
He has written a column called "Twilight Zone" about the hardships of the Palestinians since 1988. In 2004, Levy published a compilation of articles entitled Twilight Zone – Life and Death under the Israeli Occupation.

Sarah Helm, former Middle East correspondent for The Independent, was a staff correspondent for The Sunday Times and foreign correspondent for The Independent. She is the author of two books on World War Two, most recently, If This is A Woman, about the Nazi concentration camp for women. Her play Loyalty, about the Iraq War, was staged at The Hampstead Theatre in London. She is now working on a book about Gaza.
1 hr 13 min
November 19, 2021 Q&A with director Farah Nabulsi
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 writer & producer of short fiction films, exploring topics that matter to her. This includes Today They Took My Son, endorsed by renowned British Director Ken Loach, screened at the United Nations and officially selected to top tier international film festivals.

In 2019, she directed her first film, The Present, which she also co-wrote. The film stars renowned actor, Saleh Bakri. It premiered at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2020 and won the coveted Audience Award for Best Film. It had its North American premiere at the Cleveland International Film Festival, where it won the Jury Award for Best Live Action Short, qualifying it for the 2021 Oscars.

While The Present continues to pick up numerous audience and jury awards as it continues with the film festival circuit around the world, it was nominated for The Academy Awards (OSCARS®) and won a BAFTA Award for Best British Short Film 2021. It has also been licensed internationally, including to Canal+ (France), Pacific Voice (Japan), Telefonica (Spain) and Netflix Worldwide.

Farah is currently in development of her debut feature length film, The Teacher.
38 min
October 28, 2021 Jonathan Kuttab on Defending Palestinian human rights: what role for the U.K.?
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 Churches - and Parliamentarians should work to oppose this decision.

Before taking questions, Jonathan will speak briefly on his original theme: Beyond the Two-State Solution.

Jonathan Kuttab is co-founder of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq and Nonviolence International. He is also Executive Director of Friends of Sabeel North America.

A well-known international human rights attorney, Jonathan practices in the US, Palestine and Israel. He serves on the Board of Bethlehem Bible College and is President of the Board of Holy Land Trust. Jonathan was the head of the Legal Committee negotiating the Cairo Agreement of 1994 between Israel and the PLO. After graduating with his Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD) from Virginia Law School, and practicing a couple years on Wall Street, Jonathan returned home to Palestine. Jonathan was visiting scholar at Osgoode Law School at York University in Toronto in the Fall of 2017, and is a founding director of Just Peace Advocates Mouvement pour une Paix Juste, a Canadian based international law human rights not-for-profit organization. Jonathan is a resident of East Jerusalem, and is a partner of Kuttab, Khoury and Hanna Law Firm in East Jerusalem.
1 hr 7 min
September 02, 2021 Hannah Weisfeld of Yachad on Ending the Occupation for the good of all
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.
1 hr 3 min
August 05, 2021 Sir Vincent Fean on Palestine/Israel: Britain’s role, then and now
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 us together is a clear aim:
Peace, Justice and Equal Rights in Israel/Palestine.
Our mission is:
Acknowledging Britain’s continuing historic responsibilities, to uphold equal rights for the Israeli and Palestinian peoples through popular education and advocacy, and to convince the British Government to recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel.
1 hr 5 min