A question of justice: Laura Wirtz & David Somervell of QPS

‘Silence is not an option.’

by Laura Wirtz & David Somervell 22nd May 2026

On 2 May, Quaker Palestine Solidarity (QPS) hosted Makram Khoury-Machool, the founding director of the Cambridge Centre for Palestinian Studies, to address a lunchtime fringe event at Yearly Meeting. He brought a deeply personal and academic perspective to the crisis. A British Palestinian Christian academic born in Jaffa, he framed the issue not as religious conflict, but as a fundamental question of morality and justice.