What Does Britain Owe Palestine?

What Does Britain Owe Palestine? runs Tuesday, 17 November 2026, 17:00 until 18:30.

What Does Britain Owe Palestine? takes place at Levine Building, Trinity Street, Oxford, Oxford.

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What Does Britain Owe Palestine? is free to enter.

The line-up of What Does Britain Owe Palestine?: Professor Avi Shlaim, Danny Friedman KC, Dr Victor Kattan, Dr James McDougall, Professor Dawn Chatty.

A 400-page legal petition was submitted to the UK Government in September 2025 by fourteen Palestinian petitioners. It says Britain acted unlawfully in Palestine from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to the end of the Mandate in 1948. It was drafted by lawyers and historians including Ben Emmerson KC, Danny Friedman KC, Professor Avi Shlaim, Professor John Quigley and Dr Victor Kattan. It calls on the Government to acknowledge Britain’s conduct and apologise.

- **Avi Shlaim:** Britain’s role from Balfour to 1948, and why so little is remembered in Britain today. - **Danny Friedman KC:** where British rule crossed into illegality, and why the Mandate was not a League of Nations instrument. - **Victor Kattan:** law as a machinery of repression, partition and Britain’s abandonment of Palestine in 1948, and what acknowledgement, apology and repair would mean now. - **Dawn Chatty:** the human consequences of that history and what acknowledgement and redress might mean for displaced communities today.