Campaign to demand Britain to apologize for its historical mistake

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The 4th Palestine Memorial Week was launched in the United Kingdom on 19 January 2013 under the title “Britain's Legacy in Palestine”, calling on Britain to apologize for its historical mistake for the Palestinians.

The conference, which was the launch pad of a week of events around UK, gathered British MPs, Arab ambassadors, academics, experts, activists, journalists, and supporters to the Palestinian cause to hear about Britain's Legacy in Palestine.

Muhammad Hamed, the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) chairman of Board of Trustees, stressed during the conference's first session the Palestinian national constants especially the Palestinian right of return, launching the PRC's five year Balfour Campaign which calls on Britain to apologize for its historical mistake and make reparations to Palestinians who endured human rights abuses at British hands.

The Palestinian ambassador in Britain, Professor Manuel Hassassian, stressed in his speech the need for such campaigns to put pressure on the British government to apologize for its colonial past in Palestine, and he confirmed that Britain's current policy has not changed since the Nakba, insisting that there is a need to change its policy.

The MP Jeremy Corbin, of the Labour Party, expressed his support to the campaign's draft, expecting that the campaign will succeed to push Britain to recognize its historical mistake.

Participants from the United States denounced the American biased policy to the Israeli project, describing the US role as completing what the British had started.

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