(Middle East Eye-UK) Nadine Dahan - Pro-Palestinian activists at University College London have called on the British government to apologize for the Balfour Declaration. "The UK should issue an apology and think about compensating the Palestinians for their losses...which are a direct result of British policy," said Salma Karmi-Ayyoub, a consultant for the Palestinian NGO al-Haq. The Saturday conference, organized by the Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS), and Olive, a Palestinian youth organization, was held to explore the role of Britain and the Balfour Declaration over the past 100 years. It aimed to "expose the illegality of the State of Israel."
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