Afrasianet - The Arab Center for Research – Amman held a symposium entitled "The Balfour Trial", in which the Palestinian notary and historian Dr. Salman Abu Sitta was hosted, and the symposium included the screening of film material of a symbolic trial that Abu Sitta previously conducted against Arthur Balfour, at the University of Edinburgh in 2022, and the presentation showed a historical sequence of the repercussions of the British Mandate on Palestine, and the subsequent support for Zionism that led to the establishment of the State of Israel and the violation of the Palestinians' right to life on the land of their homeland. 

The trial included a legal and terminological investigation of the text of the Balfour Declaration, and Abu Sitta explained that the promise was originally just a statement before the Zionist movement received it and turned it into a "promise" that it demanded to be fulfilled, a fulfillment that was ultimately fulfilled by the Palestinian Nakba. 

The documents presented by Abu Sitta in the trial proved the absolute right of Palestinian families to lands that were later confiscated by the occupying power from the Beersheba district, under the pretext of being depopulated. 

Abu Sitta argued with Lord Balfour in a speech in which he described the Palestinians as barbaric, reminding him that the Palestinian people gave birth to Edward Said, Ismail Shammout, Ghassan Kanafani, Naji Al-Ali and other intellectuals, artists and writers, in addition to great scientists such as the Nayfeh brothers, inventors and astronauts, and he also mocked him by informing him that the Palestinian people, who were destined to be annihilated when they numbered 700,000, now number about 14 million, and are still adhering to their land and rights. 

At the end of the film, the Scottish audience was dazzled by the facts and chanted in support of Palestine and demanded the freedom of the Palestinian people. 

After the presentation, there was a space for discussion moderated by Dr. Nizam Barakat, which opened the door for a large audience as well, amid intense interaction that included questions about the feasibility of the trial and its impact on the time of the genocide, which Salman Abu Sitta considered a necessary effort to mobilize support, which will eventually be able to achieve the truth, echoing a phrase with which he had opened the trial itself: Only criminals are afraid of the truth. 

It is worth mentioning that the Center for Arab Studies – Amman holds seminars and events periodically on various cultural and intellectual issues.