Webinars

The role of non-violent resistance for Palestinians in the light of the Gaza war with Jonathan Kuttab
November 2024

Palestinian resistance from the PLO onwards with Helena Cobban
October 2024

How to prevent the erasure of Palestinians with Tamara El-Halawani & Dr Zahira Jaser
October 2024

‘The Night Won’t End: Biden’s War on Gaza’ followed by Q&A with Director Kavitha Chekuru
September 2024

Israel and Palestine – A durable peace must be based on human rights & justice with Kristyan Benedict, Amnesty International UK
July 2024

Upholding international law: dream or reality? With Dr. Ardi Imseis, Assistant Professor of Law, Queen’s University
July 2024

CONFERENCE: Peace with Justice – how to get there
June 2024

Getting aid into Gaza with Mr Andrea De Domenico, Head of OCHA in the OPT

May 2024

What price the two-state solution? with Sir Vincent Fean
Apr 2024

Resist! Palestinian women and non-violent resistance to occupation with Rula Salameh
Mar 2024

How to turn the tragedy into a strategic opportunity with Nadav Tamir, Executive Director of J Street Israel
Mar 2024

Injustice to the defenceless: the plight of Palestinian children in Israeli military detention
with Claire Nicholl (Save the Children), Tareq Shrourou (Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights) and Jude Lanchin (solicitor)
Feb 2024

Destruction of Gaza’s health system: need to restore hope with Dr Nick Maynard
Feb 2024

Post Conflict Gaza; Construction or Reconstruction with Charlie Bird OBE – Jan 2024

Policy of Deceit and the Quest for Peace: An Evening of Reflection at Initiatives of Change with Peter Shambrook, Mike Scott-Baumann and Sir Vincent Fean – Jan 2024

Jerusalem and Gaza: Taking Stock with Daniel Seidemann – Jan 2024

West Bank focus: lockdown, settler violence and forced displacement in Masafer Yatta – Dec 2023

Arab-Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: In Conversation: Avi Shlaim and Nic Pelham – Dec 2023

The Middle East Study Centre and The Balfour Project with Professor Salam Fayyad – Dec 2023

The politics of water in Israel-Palestine: a discussion with James Fergusson, author of ‘In Search of the River Jordan’ – Nov 2023

Dr Ralph Wilde Webinar: How Britain broke international law to stop Palestinian independence – Sept 2023

Launch of KEYS: A Troubled Inheritance Podcast – Sept 2023

An Eye Witness account of my time as an Ecumenical Accompanier in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem with EA Ann Wilson – June 2023

The United Nations and Palestine: Stranded Between Promise and Performance with Richard Falk, John Dugard and Michael Lynk – Apr 2023

Screening of the documentary film Britain in Palestine 1917 – 1948 – Apr 2023

Matthew Teller – Jerusalem and the British: 200 turbulent years – Mar 2023

In conversation with Ambassador (rtd.), State of Israel Ilan Baruch and Former Director of Israeli Affairs, State of Palestine Ashraf Al-Ajrami
Mar 2023

Matthew Hughes – British Pacification in Mandate Palestine, 1936-39
Feb 2023

Palestine: overview of 2022 and prospects for this year – Ray Dolphin
Feb 2023

Chronicler of Palestine – Raja Shehadeh & Tim Llewellyn
Jan 2023

Palestine/Israel/UK: prospects for 2023 and launch of Balfour Project “Abandoning Palestine” conference booklet with Layla Moran MP
Jan 2023

Palestine’s World Cup triumph with Omar Karmi and Tamir Sorek
Dec 2022

“Oh little town of Bethlehem” – Palestinian Christians, Reality, Challenges and Prospects – Revd Dr Munther Isaac
Dec 2022

Balfour Project Fellows: Culture x Conflict Series
2022

On Impunity and Exceptionalism: Will Israel Be Held Accountable to International Law? Dr Ramzy Baroud – Nov 2022

Danielle Bett (Yachad): Five elections in three years, is Israel moving backwards or forward? – Oct 2022

RESOURCES: Opportunities for Encounter: Christian pilgrimage and beyond – Oct 2022

A Palestinian state now or equal rights until there is a solution by Sam Bahour & Dr Tony Klug – Sept 2022

Education Workshop: Israel-Palestine in secondary schools & having the confidence to teach it – June 2022

Urgent: halt evictions in Masafer Yatta with Breaking the Silence’s Becca Strober & Balfour Project’s Matan Rosenstrauch – June 2022

Defenceless: Palestinian children in Israeli military detention with Lana Ramadan from Save the Children, Ramallah and lawyers Jude Lanchin and Tareq Shrourou – May 2022

People live here: the 918 firing zone and threat of expulsion with local activist Ali Awad and Breaking the Silence’s Becca Strober – March 2022

Nine Quarters of Jerusalem Book Launch with Matthew Teller – March 2022

Abbas Milhem on Palestinian agriculture under occupation – March 2022

Bashir Bashir on Equal Rights for All in Palestine/Israel – February 2022

Dr Susan Power & Rula Jamal LLM from Al Haq – Under Threat: Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Face Effects of Designations – February 2022

Rohan Talbot & Wafa Dakwar from MAP: The plight of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon – January 2022

Conversation with Director Dror Moreh about “The Gatekeepers” – January 2022

Israel/Palestine: In Search of the Rule of Law Conference Souvenir Brochure with Dominic Grieve QC, Nada Kiswanson and Hagit Ofran – December 2021

Gideon Levy & Sarah Helm: Israel/Palestine – telling it like it is – December 2021

Q&A with Palestinian Director Farah Nabulsi – November 2021

Jonathan Kuttab on Defending Palestinian human rights: what role for the U.K.? – October 2021

Hannah Weisfeld on Ending the Occupation for the good of all – September 2021

Sir Vincent Fean on Palestine/Israel: Britain’s role, then and now – August 2021

Sophie Bridger on Education Under Occupation – Eyewitness Testimony from the West Bank – July 2021

Mapping Palestine: an online exhibition – July 2021

Tinderbox Q&A with Gillian Mosely, Robert Cohen and Tim Llewellyn – June 2021

Eugene Rogan – Neither Pro-Zionist nor Pro-Arab but Pro-Empire: A Re-assessment of British Policy in the Palestine Mandate – June 2021
Eugene Rogan, an American Historian, Fellow, and Director of the Middle East Centre at St. Antony’s College, narrates the history of British imperialism and re-examine the mandate for Palestine.   

Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law, 2 day conference – May 2021
Moderated by conservative lawyers, politicians, and historians, this 2-day virtual conference discusses the Israel-Palestine conflict’s Rule of Law and Human Rights.

Nadia Hijab on Moving Beyond Statehood Debates and on to How We Get ThereMay 2021
Palestinian political analyst Nadia Hijab, a co-founder, and President of Al-Shabaka speaks on the controversial question for the future state for Palestinians and what can be made to achieve Palestinian’s hope.

John Lyndon – Northern Ireland & Israel/Palestine: what two differing paradigms can teach us about conflict resolution – April 2021
John Lyndon,  Executive Director of Alliance for Middle East Peace (Allmep), talks on North Ireland and Israel/Palestine as having common affliction might attain conflict resolution.

Rev Dr Munthur Isaac – Christian Zionism as Imperial TheologyMarch 2021
Rev Dr Munther Isaac is a Palestinian Christian pastor at Bethlehem Christmas Church and Academic Dean at Bethlehem Bible College. He shares his perspective of Christian Zionism as more than just a theological belief – it is an Imperial Theology.

Raja Shehadeh – Britain and Palestine, a family history – March 2021
Palestinian lawyer and award-winning author Raja Shehadeh, using recently discovered papers from his father, gives a fascinating talk about Britain’s role in Palestine around the end of the Mandate

Arabella Dorman – The Audacity of Hope – February 2021
Internationally acclaimed artist Arabella Dorman hosts an illustrated talk about her journey as a war artist across the Middle East and Afghanistan over the past 15 years.

Ardi Imseis – Unfinished Business: Why the United Kingdom Must Now Recognise the State of Palestine – January 2021
Dr Ardi Imseis, Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty of Law at Queen’s University, Canada and former UN legal advisor discusses factors that capture the prevailing situation for a two-state settlement to be achieved.

In Conversation with Leila Sansour – December 2020
Palestinian/British film director Leila Sansour shares “Open Bethlehem” – a film where she spent 10 years both documenting the encapsulation of Bethlehem and also mounting a campaign to save the city.

Sir Vincent Fean – How will the US Presidential Elections Affect the Israel/Palestine Conflict? – November 2020
Retired diplomat and former British Consul General in Jerusalem, Sir Vincent Fean gives a compelling talk of his opinion of how the US election results will affect the circumstances in Palestine/Israel.

Jerusalem: From Past Divisions to a Shared Future? – October 2020
An all-day conference from the history to the future of the Holy City of Jerusalem by several respected historians, politicians, and faith leaders.

Ian Black on Unseen question? Zionism and the Palestinians under the British Mandate – October 2020
British journalist Ian Black, a visiting senior fellow at the Middle East Centre, LSE, gives a comprehensive talk on the Zionist attitudes during the British Mandate. 

Former Israeli Ambassador Dr. Alon Liel – Is the failed formal annexation attempt a regional turning point? – September 2020
Dr Alon Liel is a former director-general of the Foreign Ministry of Israel and was also Israel’s ambassador to South Africa. Dr Liel outlines in this talk some of the current Israeli Government strategies and explains the illegality of annexation.

Tim Llewellyn on The Crafting of the News: the British media and the Israel-Palestine Question – August 2020
British freelance writer and former BBC’s Middle East Correspondent in Beirut, Tim Llewellyn, analyses the British media’s coverage of the Israel – Palestine conflict.

Toppling Balfour, a talk by Sarah Helm – July 2020
Sarah Helm, a British journalist and non-fiction writer, who also worked as a correspondent for The Sunday Times and The Independent, expresses  colonial enterprise behind  the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.