The Balfour Project

Last night I looked at the videos on the website "The Balfour Project" from the conference held in October 2013 in the UK.

The Project aims:

To mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration in a manner that honours the deep feelings of all who have been impacted by it, the Balfour Project seeks:

• to acknowledge where British policy towards Palestine was marked by duplicity, denial and racism.
• pardon for our nation’s wrongdoing from Palestinians for having intentionally ignored their legitimate aspirations and from Jews for our part in the centuries of anti-Semitism.

When I first heard about this project at Greenbelt, I did not realise its importance. Having been here for five weeks, I think it is the essential starting point in the UK for a change of policy.