• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Brighton & Hove Palestine Campaign

Brighton & Hove Palestine Campaign

Supporting the struggle to achieve a just and lasting peace for Palestine

  • Home
  • Get involved with BHPSC
    • Our activities
    • Membership
    • Contact Us
    • Donate to BHPSC
    • Travel to Palestine information
    • Online stockist of Palestinian products
    • Privacy Policy
  • About Palestine
  • Campaigns
    • Hewlett-Packard
    • Sainsbury’s Campaign
    • Stop Arming Israel – Arms Embargo Now
    • EcoStream / SodaStream
    • Boycott
    • Water meters
    • Lobbying
    • Jordan Valley Solidarity
  • Upcoming Events
    • Upcoming Local Events
    • Other Upcoming Events
  • News & Reports
    • Local News & Reports
    • News & Reports from Palestine
    • Other News & Reports

Public meeting Oct 10th – Justice for Palestine 100 years after Balfour: Israel’s crimes and Britain’s complicity

October 10, 2017

Date/Time
Date(s) - 10 Oct 2017
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM


BHPSC Public Meeting

Guest speaker: David Cronin

Tuesday 10 October 2017 at 7.30pm
Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AF
Free admission – Donations welcome

In November 1917, Britain caused one of the great fault lines in the Middle East. A declaration signed by Arthur James Balfour, then foreign secretary, favoured the establishment of a ‘Jewish national home’ in Palestine, a predominantly Arab land.

David Cronin will be discussing his new book, Balfour’s Shadow: A century of British support for Zionism and Israel. The book provides a trenchant critique of Britain’s 100-year-old support for the Zionist colonisation project. Unearthing facts neglected by many historians, Cronin documents Britain’s frequently brutal conduct when it ruled Palestine in the period between the two world wars. Such brutality facilitated the dispossession of Palestinians and spawned injustices that have been allowed to fester.

Britain’s relationship with the Zionist movement has proven resilient, despite periods of hostility. A century ago Britain was the chief imperial sponsor of the Zionist project; today some of Britain’s key policies on ‘defence’ rely on Israeli-designed weapons. Balfour’s Shadow traces the evolution of an intriguing alliance with lethal consequences.

David Cronin is a contributing editor with The Electronic Intifada, a website focused on Palestine. His previous books are Europe’s Alliance With Israel: Aiding the Occupation (Pluto, 2011) and Corporate Europe: How Big Business Sets Policies on Food, Climate and War (Pluto, 2013).

Primary Sidebar


twitter      facebook

Upcoming Events

  • Brighton & Hove PSC AGM with Guest Speaker Sally Azzam Cook
    • 10 Jun 23

Recent Posts

  • Weʼre raising £4,000 to help the Palestinian people of Masafer Yatta resist Israel’s ethnic cleansing. BHPSC will match all donations!

    Weʼre raising £4,000 to help the Palestinian people of Masafer Yatta resist Israel’s ethnic cleansing. BHPSC will match all donations!

  • The video recording of our meeting on Masafer Yatta is now on our YouTube channel

    The video recording of our meeting on Masafer Yatta is now on our YouTube channel

  • A review of our activities in 2022

    A review of our activities in 2022

  • The books we collected for Samir’s bookshop in Gaza have arrived safely!

    The books we collected for Samir’s bookshop in Gaza have arrived safely!

  • NOW AVAILABLE! Video recording of our online meeting ‘Free Mohammed El Halabi’ 20 Oct 2021

    NOW AVAILABLE! Video recording of our online meeting ‘Free Mohammed El Halabi’ 20 Oct 2021

Sign up below for periodic email updates. Better yet, become a member of BHPSC by clicking HERE

Copyright © 2023 Brighton & Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Contact Us