Britain Palestine Project

Panel discussion with director of Tinderbox Gillian Mosely, Amos Trust trustee Robert Cohen and Balfour Project executive committee member Tim Llewellyn.

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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 region.

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), named a best book of 2009 by The Economist, The Financial Times, and The Atlantic Monthly. His new book, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (2015), was named a best book of 2015 by The Economist and The Wall Street Journal. His earlier works include Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 1999), for which he received the Albert Hourani Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association of North America and the Fuad Köprülü Prize of the Turkish Studies Association; and The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge University Press, 2001, second edition 2007, with Avi Shlaim). His works are translated into 18 languages.

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:

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 Dominic Grieve QC Remarks by Dominic Grieve QC Forward look to Day 2 with Sir Vincent Fean.  

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.

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 education and advocacy.  To persuade the British Government to recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel.