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Israel has no rights in international law or under UN Security Council Resolutions to close down the UK’s Consulate-General in East Jerusalem, as it has said it intends to do on 8 Oct 2026 in reprisal for Britain’s new measures against trade and financing by British concerns with and in all the illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine territory. The occupied territories are all, including annexed East Jerusalem, beyond Israel’s jurisdiction. BRIAN BRIVATI, BPP Executive-Director, explains in detail the legal positions. Also, The Guardian of 28 Sept 2028, reports on the advice given to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, supporting these findings, by former Attorney-General Dominic Grieve.
The eminent British-Israeli historian and writer, Avi Shlaim, says Israel’s military excesses in Gaza and the West Bank, and the increasing Jewish-Israeli animosity against the Palestinian population of Israel, have proved that Zionism is incompatible with democracy.
Two Israeli investigative journalists write in a new book based on Palestinian, regional Arab and Israeli Intelligence that the President of the United Arab Emirates warned the Israeli leader in September, 2023, that a massive, Hamas-led breakout military operation from the Gaza Strip was planned for the very near future. Netanyahu, they write, did nothing, claiming that the main threat to Israel lay on the West Bank.
The UK should acknowledge its brutal historic role in the crushing of Palestinian Arab rights between 1917 and 1948, and its responsibility for its crucial part in creating the Zionist state of Israel in Palestine. It is vital Britain does this if it is to play a serious role in resolving the Palestine-Israel issue, writes John McDonnell, MP, in Tribune.
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.
Every item helps amplify the message that recognition must lead to real progress.
How the Palestinians’ right to self-determination has been consistently ignored and denied during the past 100-plus years, by the British, the Israelis and the Western ‘International Community’. Mike Scott-Baumann examines this seminal volume, The Administration of Palestine, by Palestinian author and historian TAWFIQ Al GHUSSEIN.
Ian Wellens’s A History of Palestine in Five Fruits tells the story of Palestine through olives, dates, oranges, aubergines and watermelons, tracing the deep relationship between its people and the land.
