Salma Karmi-Ayyoub at ‘Palestine, Britain and the Balfour Declaration’ conference

Address by Salma Karmi-Ayyoub at MEMO’s Palestine, ‘Britain and the Balfour Declaration‘ conference held in London on October 7, 2017.

Salma Karmi-Ayyoub is a criminal barrister and legal consultant for the Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq.

Palestine and international law – from Balfour to settlements

This session examines the legal aspects of the Declaration, in addition to perspectives on the Mandate, the UN Partition Plan, international law issues pertaining to the settlements and Israel’s flouting of UN resolutions.