Join Professor Brian K. Barber as he shares the powerful stories behind No Way But Forward, offering a deeply human perspective on life, resilience and family in the Gaza Strip, drawn from decades of research and close relationships with Palestinian families.
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Deadline: 31 July 2026
Recorded with Nick Maynard, Professor of Surgery and chair of Medical Aid for Palestinianson 1 July 2026.
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Sami, our man in Gaza since before 7 Oct 2023, talks to us from his refuge there of the devastation, the mass killings and the degradation of Israel’s continuous blitzkrieg of Gaza’s Palestinians. In this first report, Sami describes the dilemmas this attempted genocide poses him and his young children, in conversation with Mike Joseph. Sami also mourns the death of his aged mother, a Nakba survivor, in the most humiliating conditions.
Letter to The Guardian from UK ex-diplomats, lawyers and peers.
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the leading Gaza physician who gave himself up to Israeli soldiers in late 2024 after they had destroyed his hospital, the Kamal Adwan institution, in Beit Lahia, is in dreadful physical condition, suffering serious injuries. Dr Abu Safiya told his lawyer, who visited him on 2 July, 2026, that he fears death at the hands of his Israeli captors. BPP Trustee Richard Burden tells the story and sets out what Britain should do to try to save him.
The BPP and the Council for Arab-British Understanding join in urging the new UK leader to launch a six-point action plan against Israel over its law-breaking policies and aggressions in the occupied Palestinian territory: this includes a ban on all British settlement trade; a halt to the notorious E1 settlement near Jerusalem which would divide the West Bank in two; and respecting and enforcing ICJ Opinions and the integrity of the ICC. In other words, making Britain’s recognition of the state of Palestine last September into a reality.
Tawfiq al-Ghussein examines the principles and procedures of the British Mandate for Palestine: were they intended to constrain imperial power, or reinforce it?
Herbert Samuel, Britain’s first – and Zionist – High Commissioner in Palestine, was able to deploy the contradictions and vagaries of the Balfour Declaration to the eternal advantage of the Zionists, right from the start.
We investigate the contradictory promises and actions which defined British Mandatory rule in Palestine and laid the groundwork for the Nakba (the catastrophe) and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. This is essential viewing for understanding Britain’s legacy in the region and the situation on the ground today.
Our second BPP film traces the calamitous history of the Palestinian people from the Zionists’ eviction of them from their homeland between 1947 and 1949, through the 1967 Israeli invasion and occupation of the remaining Palestinian lands in Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank in 1967, and to the betrayal of the Palestinian case and cause in the Camp David agreement of 1979 when Egypt made a separate peace with Israel, brokered by the United States.
The Balfour Declaration was published on 2 November 1917. It stated the intent of the British government to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine. William Dalrymple (historian and BPP patron) and Anita Anand (historian) are joined by Tom Segev (Israeli historian and writer) to discuss the declaration and the ensuing British mandate for Palestine.
Illegal settlements are a war crime. UK trade with them must stop. Use our template to urge your MP to support a full ban on UK trade, services and investment linked to illegal Israeli settlements – and to uphold international law.
The Britain Palestine Project is proud to support the launch of the international campaign to ban trade with Israel’s illegal settlements, backed by a new report: Trading with Illegal Settlements.
Recognition is a vital first step, but it must be given real meaning through action. Britain’s historic responsibilities, and its obligations as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, require more than symbolic gestures.
Our Chair’s response to 14 Palestinians who have filed a legal petition demanding the British Government account for systematic violations of international law during its occupation of Palestine (1917–48). The Britain Palestine Project urges the Government to meet its historic responsibilities.
Our new ‘Recognition Is the Beginning’ merch collection celebrates this moment while calling for meaningful change. Every item helps amplify the message that recognition must lead to real progress.
John Bond and Ian Wellens review Palestine 36, the moving and revealing feature film that shows how British forces used murderous methods to end the Palestinian Arab uprising of 1936–39. Those methods are still in use today, by Israel, in all the occupied Palestinian territory.
