Britain Palestine Project
Peace with justice, security and equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians
By Brian Brivati Executive Director, Britain Palestine Project, 9 May, 2025 On 8 May, 2025, the Britain Palestine Project/King’s College London conference on the “Rule of Law and Justice in the Middle East – Focus on Palestine” brought together academics, legal experts, diplomats and humanitarians to examine the ongoing crisis in Palestine through the lens…
In the past month, the United Kingdom has taken two notable diplomatic steps on Palestine. First, on 1 May, 2025, British lawyers in The Hague made a legal submission to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that echoed previous submissions and statements and strongly defended international humanitarian law in Gaza. They argued that Israel, as…
This introduction is taken from a Jewish Voice for Labour report, and the whole Commons debate was most timely, coming in the week of the BPP conference (in London, on 8 May), which dealt vociferously with this very topic Tuesday’s Middle East debate in the UK Parliament should be a watershed moment in the Starmer…