• Policy Roundtable Series

    Greenlighting Genocide: Britain and the War on Palestine

    The series of panel discussions aims to dissect and scrutinise the different dimensions of Britain's role in supporting what leading experts have described as Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. By convening experts, scholars, and policymakers, this panel series seeks to critically examine and discuss Britain's political, economic, and military complicity in the sustained emergency in Palestine; while advancing policy approaches that support the protection of the Palestinian people and the realisation of their inalienable rights.

Britain and the Ongoing Nakba in Palestine

Co-sponsored by the Centre for Palestine Studies (SOAS) International State Crime Initiative, Queen Mary University of London

As Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people continues, we marked Nakba Day with a panel discussion on Britain’s historic and contemporary role in the ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people. Leading scholars of Palestinian history and politics, Professor Avi Shlaim, Professor Abdel Razzaq Takriti and Dr Chandni Desai examine this hidden history, exploring the origins of the present-day genocide in Gaza in Britain's colonial past, and drawing out the lessons for British policymakers today.

This was the second event of the British Palestinian Committee’s new policy roundtable series on Green-lighting Genocide: Britain and the War on Palestine.

The ICJ Ruling: Britain, Palestine and the International Rule of Law

Greenlighting Genocide: Britain and the War on Palestine

Leading international law scholars, Dr Nimer Sultany, Dr Thomas MacManus and Dr Michelle Staggs Kelsall discuss the ICJ’s landmark interim decision on Israel and its war on Gaza, considering what it means for the prospects of bringing the genocide to an end, and the implications for British policy towards Palestine.

This was the first event of the British Palestinian Committee’s new policy roundtable series on Green-lighting Genocide: Britain and the War on Palestine.

The first event was titled “The ICJ Ruling: Britain, Palestine and the International Rule of Law” and was co-sponsored by SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies and International State Crime Initiative.

If you missed the first event of our new policy roundtable series ‘Green-lighting Genocide: Britain and the War on Palestine’, you can now watch the recording on YouTube where leading international law scholars discuss the ICJ’s landmark interim decision on Israel and its war on Gaza.