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With the Gaza strip lying in ruins and many tens of thousands of Palestinians killed or maimed, and many more yet to suffer, the Balfour Project looks back on a year of ruin and horror for the Palestinians and the wider region. Andrew Whitley, our Chair, and a veteran of Middle East journalism and diplomacy, reflects on the devastation and argues, inter alia, that Britain can do far more to help bring order out of war and oppression. More
We condemn Israel’s ban on UNRWA
The Balfour Project condemns as a flagrant breach of international law and humanitarian practice the Israeli Parliament’s vote to ban UNRWA inside Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory, including, most vitally, the killing fields of besieged Gaza. MORE
Saving lives in Gaza
A doctor describes his agonising daily work among Gaza’s Palestinians under a barrage of Israel’s Western—US and UK-supplied–weapons.
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Looking back on the fateful day
Jonathan Kuttab reflects on the Hamas break-out and how memories and interpretations of it need careful reconsideration.
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Back channels beat demonisation
Peter Oborne reports on his witness to a former British Northern Ireland Minister’s meeting with the political head of Hamas, an echo of the secret diplomacy that brought peace to Northern Ireland.
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Our new ‘Asks’ of Labour
Two Balfour Project Trustees and former MPs list eight demands the Government should make of Israel in ending the war on Gaza and bringing respite to the Palestinians.
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A Warning for the Candidate
Daniel Levy writes that the US policies for negotiating with Israel are helping only Netanyahu, and thus prolonging the war on Gaza. Kamala Harris should change course.
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They’re building another wall
Three months ago, a small village in Area C called Um al-Khair suffered the worst demonstration of settler colonial violence and annexation in the West Bank since 7th October. Seemingly random settler violence ripped through the village and came to a head on the 26th June. Israeli settlers destroyed 25 houses, rendering just under 100 people homeless, many of them children.
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A Palestinian woman vanishes — under British law
Israeli security agents seized a young Palestinian woman, Layan Nasir, from her home in the West Bank last April. Her family and friends have not seen her since. The regulations that enabled Israel to do this to her and many thousands of Palestinians since 1948 were inherited from emergency British regulations imposed nearly 90 years ago. A former UN rapporteur and legal historian explains.
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Israel learned to suppress Palestinians from the British
From reshaping land ownership through land laws in 1920 to the brutal suppression of the Arab revolt using administrative detention, house demolition, assassination, exile and collective punishment, Britain ensured there would be no Palestinian state and significantly shaped the region’s history.
Reimagining Zionism: the state that might have been
Historian John McHugo tells the stories of Judah Magnes and Martin Buber, two passionate Zionists who sought a land where Arabs and Jews would live together in equality and co-operation. Image: Martin Buber (l), Judah Magnes (r)
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Balfour Project seeks new Executive Director
Do you have the leadership skills to drive a dynamic and influential charity to new heights? If so, the Balfour Project invites you to apply for the prestigious role of Executive Director.
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