2022/23
John McHugo, Balfour Project Trustee, and director of the Fellowship Programme, writes:
This is the fourth year of our peace advocacy fellowship scheme, and we have now reached the point at which we can set out details of the projects which the 2022-3 fellows are working on. They are set out below. These projects reflect both the individual interests of the fellows and areas of importance to the Balfour Project. Some of them, such as the campaign to save Masafer-Yatta and the Mandate social history workshops for schools, follow on from projects begun last year. Others, such as the project on the environmental consequences of the occupation on the Palestinian people and the international law project focussing on the impending post-Brexit free trade agreement between the UK and Israel, are new. We will keep you informed of progress and let you know how to access the projects when they are completed.
Israel and International law: Influencing the UK-Israel Free Trade Agreement by Andrea Wong, Dina Gitlin-Leigh and Laura Bramall
Occupied Environments by Lucy Mooring, Madeline Elmitt and Matthew Holt
Humanising Palestinians in Anglo-Jewish Contexts by Joe Haidar, Joel Stokes, Nicole Munson and Adnan Mahmud
Mandate Social History workshops for A-Level students by Ethan Hadad and Ross Plowman
Recognising Palestine by Joseph Hearn and Daniel Mautner
Continuation of Save Masafer Yatta campaign by Ross Plowman and Dina Gitlin-Leigh
UK’s Contribution to the Surveillance Industry of Israel: A Palestinian Prospective by Adnan Mahmud
2021/22
Legacies and Possibilities: Perspectives on Palestinian Heritage by Archie Williams, Amber Khan and Cecilia Cáceres Juan
Life in Late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine: a Social History Workshop for Secondary Schools by Eibhlin Priestley and Jean Franco
Live Literature: Palestine and Israel by Emily Abdeni-Holman and Salma Altabari
Opportunities For Encounter- Christian Tours and Pilgrimages to The Holy Land (Israel and Palestine) by Anne-Marie Clements and Rebecca Argall
The Threat of Expulsion in Masafer Yatta by Douglas Gerrard, Pyla Bird-Leakey and Maya Novi
2020/21
Bedouins in Area C by Adam Abdalla, Jordan Jones, Stav Salpeter
IHRA Report Project by Gilang Al Ghifari Lukman, Jack Walton, Martha Scott-Cracknell, Omar Sharif, Sarah Chaya Smith
Israel-Palestine in Schools in the UK by Aimée-Stephanie Reid, Haneen Zeglam, Sam Lytton Cobbold
Mapping: An art exhibition exploring homeland, identity and British colonialism in Israel-Palestine by Rosie Richards and Francesca Vawdrey