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Hundred years after Balfour:The role of British Parliament

Sunday, 15 July 2018 9:50 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 15 July 2018 9:50 AM ]

Hundred Years After Balfour: The Role of British Parliament Miko Peled Speaker's biography: Miko Peled is a writer and activist born and raised in Jerusalem. Driven by a personal family tragedy to explore Palestine, its people and their narrative. Peleds maternal grandfather was a signer on the Israeli Declaration of Independence; his father was a General in the Israeli army; in the 1970's his father pioneered the Israeli Palestinian dialogue and eventually met with Yasser Arafat. Miko has since been working tirelessly with the popular resistance, as well as speaking all over the world to demand equal rights for Palestinians. Summary: This episode is a concise of Miko Peleds speech at Palestine Expo in London in 2017 about the nature of racism, colonialism, and Eurocentric of Balfour Declaration. Peled also puts a series of demands from the British Parliament for Palestinians rights. Miko Peled refers to a part of Balfour declaration where he completely ignores the existence of the majority of Palestinians on their land and recognises the rights of Jews who were a small minority at the time to establish a homeland on that land and only recognises them within that declaration as being non-Jews. This document is a result of the negotiations of Zionists leaders, who represented no one but themselves and British government at that time. Peled follows his speech with various unconditional demands from the British Parliament for Palestinian rights such as a) retract the Balfour declaration unconditionally and immediately, b) send Israeli ambassador Mark Regev home and close the Israel embassy immediately, c) bring back British ambassador and close British embassy in Tel Aviv, d) pass laws to stop the sale of arms to Israel as a crime against humanity, e) British government should impose boycott, divestment and sanctions upon Israel and demand that the international community do the same until that the goals of the BDS, which are 1) ending the military occupation, 2) equal rights for Palestinians, and 3) the right of return of Palestinians to their homes and to their land are met in full.

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