Palestine: The RealityThe inside story of the Balfour Declaration 1917–1938 by J.M.N. Jeffries Published: 1939, reissued 2017 Formats: Hardback, paperback ISBN: 9781911072126 £26.99 First published by Longman Green and Co. Reissued by Olive Branch Press and Skyscraper Publications. Paperback £26.99 By John McHugo Many people trying to get to grips with the Israel/Palestine conflict…
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Letter to the Guardian While all eyes are on the US/Israeli war on Iran, Israel proceeds with its systematic West Bank annexation. Chancellor Merz has condemned “annexation moves”, including the illegal E1 settlement project designed to divide the West Bank in two and destroy Palestine’s viability.Iran, and Israel’s military occupation of south Lebanon, have delayed…
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By Brian Brivati Executive Director, Britain Palestine Project 30 March 2026 (This post should be read alongside the background: OHCRH reports on the crimes of State of Israel on and in the occupied territory of the State of Palestine: A UK response?) In the first three months of 2026, the number of West Bank Palestinians…
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Thurs 7th May 2026 at 3pm UK time. Omer Bartov is an Israeli-American scholar and Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.
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Director Gillian has met and worked with many supporters through Britain Palestine Project events and screenings, and now invites your support for her latest film.
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Israel’s unlawful war of choice against Iran, and its continued destructive military occupation of and assaults on Gaza and the West Bank, mean Britain must take concrete action to protect the State of Palestine it recognised last autumn.
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We are inviting submissions for the Spooner Prize – an annual essay competition supporting rigorous, evidence-led research on Britain’s role in Palestine. Open to postgraduate students, early-career researchers, and independent scholars.
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An Israeli’s discovery of abandoned documents spelling out soldiers’ and officers’ personal stories of the organised massacres of Palestinians during the 1948 Nakba throws new light on the Israeli army’s conduct, and is new confirmatory eye-witness and participant evidence of systemic, murderous ethnic cleansing.
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The BPP urges Britain to make a priority of UNRWA’s survival, safety and full operational capability. These include its duties to protect, educate and sustain Palestinian registered refugees, and the safeguarding of UNRWA officers and workers.
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Tim and Julia have recently returned from visits to the occupied West Bank as Ecumenical Accompaniers (or human rights monitors).
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British and Irish MPs, TDs, peers and senators have written jointly to their Foreign Ministers calling for tough action now against trade with with Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied territory.
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The emergency measures Israel enforces during wartime seriously intensify the already severe disruption the illegal occupation brings to Palestinians. But they also enshrine structural changes that aim to reshape the Palestinian landscape permanently.
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The declining Christian presence in the Holy Land – webinar with Miranda Pinch. Miranda is on the Advisory Forum of the Britain Palestine Project and has recently returned from a visit to the West Bank.
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This is a new podcast series from the BPP offering informed, candid analysis of the latest developments shaping Palestine, Israel and Britain’s role in the region.
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United Nations Association – UK statement on the escalatory attacks on Iran, and what Britain and its allies can do now.
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This contemporary account of life in Mandate Palestine during those fraught years of 1943–44 highlights the hopes that existed of an Arab–Jew rapprochement, while at the same time illustrating the compelling forces that were to make compromise impossible.
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Sir Vincent Fean says: ‘The US is traditionally the broker between Palestinians and Israelis. I’m afraid that… it’s not an honest broker and that Britain and Europe and the wider world need to look to themselves for a way forward between Israel and Palestine.’
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The BPP argues that Britain must take the lead in opposing Israel’s scheme to divide into two separate entities: the northern and southern sections of the illegally occupied West Bank.
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A controversy over the language a bishop used about Israel’s campaign against Gaza has dominated the letters pages of the Church Times.
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Colin Shindler’s book undoubtedly ‘sheds much-needed light on the conflict’. However, it is more of a history of Zionism and Israel than of the Israel-Palestine conflict, because it contains much less of the Palestinian narrative.
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Stav is Gisha’s Director of International Relations and has served as Director of Community Engagement at Yachad, a British Jewish organisation advocating to end the occupation.
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Encounters in Palestine during my visit in January 2026, by Miranda Pinch.
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Andrew Whitley recalls the essential work UNRWA and its largely Palestinian staff did for their beleaguered fellows and families in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, and remembers its Sheikh Jarrah HQ – now torn down by Israel’s wrecking squads.
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An Anglican Father from Ramallah describes the accelerating exodus of his and other churches’ parishioners from the Occupied Territory as Israeli settlers and soldiers rampage across Palestinian lands.
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The violent history of the British armed forces’ suppressing the Palestinian Arabs’ struggle for their national rights is related in a new petition to the British Government, asking for a full, official apology.
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Professor Mekelberg has been an associate fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House since 2002. He is currently a guest professor at the University of Roehampton, in the UK.
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‘Dear Foreign Secretary … I wish to draw your attention to a grave moral, legal, and humanitarian inconsistency that now urgently requires address.’
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As settlers set homes ablaze and looted livestock across three villages for over five hours, Israeli soldiers blocked ambulances, arrested victims, and even took part in beatings. This is how it unfolded.
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The Israeli army has confirmed the Gazan death toll of 70,000, after consistently denying such levels of slaughter. How, asks BPP Executive Director Brian Brivati, can ordinary Israelis absorb this figure and just look away?
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‘Less than three years after the Jews of Europe – including members of my own family – were ghettoised and ethnically cleansed for being Jewish, the people of Palestine were ethnically cleansed and ghettoised for NOT being Jewish.’
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Freed Palestinian prisoner Nael Barghouti described what kept him going through a lifetime of Israeli imprisonment, including torture, starvation and abuse — his faith in and work for the Palestinian struggle for freedom.
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A joint statement by the foreign ministers of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom on demolitions by the Israeli authorities of the UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem.
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Imagine trying to cope with the needs of people after more than two years of genocidal attacks when so many facilities have been damaged and even now, desperately needed supplies are being blocked by Israel, also in violation of the ceasefire agreement.
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The BPP’s 2026 conference brings together leading historians, analysts, and legal experts to examine what recognition of Palestine must mean in practice, and what the UK’s responsibilities are in shaping what comes next.
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Israeli farmers issue a warning that the country’s agricultural export industry is facing a looming collapse becauseof international opposition to the Gaza invasion, the mass killings of Palestinian civilians and the almost total physical destruction of environment and infrastructure . Recent reports show the impact of boycotting Israel, and why the Israeli ‘brand’ may never recover.
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‘The Gaza I knew, and whose length and breadth I’ve travelled, has ceased to exist.’
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24 February 2026 In this powerful and thought-provoking conversation, Professor Peter Beinart joins the Britain Palestine Project to discuss his latest book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza (Knopf, 2025), and to reflect on what this moment demands morally, politically and spiritually. Beinart describes Gaza not only as a humanitarian catastrophe, but as a…
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The BPP Executive Director, Dr Brian Brivati, argues that most of the international legal questions raised by “Trump’s Board of Peace” (BoP) and the related National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), flow from the BoP Charter, which purports to supply authority for Gaza’s transitional governance while also gesturing toward a far broader conflict-resolution role.
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Hamas, beyond the rhetoric, writes Menachem Klein, acknowledges that the fighting now has to be converted into political and social gains as part of the Trump peace plans. And it looks to Egypt, Qatar and Turkiye as its main allies in this quest.
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How faith-based activism is being used to confront and resist extremist settler violence, forced displacement, and systemic human rights abuses faced by Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
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Israel’s plan to end the Palestinian refugee issue by demolishing its main symbol: the refugee camp.
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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.
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During the past two years, Israeli settlers have established a record number of new outposts in the occupied territory. The goal is to win on the ground what might otherwise be lost at a negotiating table.
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New Kairos Palestine document calls for repudiation of Zionism “What is happening [in Palestine] today is the true face of Zionist ideology . . . turning Palestinian existence into an unbearable hell,” declares the recently released Kairos Palestine document, A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide. By Jeff Wright 20 Dec 2025…
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Britain Palestine Project reflects on the political, legal and humanitarian developments of 2025 and looks ahead to the challenges and opportunities shaping 2026.
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Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: Targeting Civilians: Murder, Hostage-Taking and Other Violations by Palestinian Armed Groups in Israel and Gaza.
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For two years officials in Germany dismissed Gaza’s death toll as propaganda. Now the Max Planck Institute has released estimates that make such denial impossible – and echo the patterns of past genocides By Hanno Hauenstein 2 Dec 2025 A new estimate by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock paints…
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This Giving Tuesday, we are raising £10,000 to fund Alaa’s seven-day UK advocacy tour – honouring his cousin Awdeh’s legacy by bringing Palestinian grassroots voices directly to the UK.
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Beware the language of ceasefire and peace, writes MANDY TURNER. When Israel and its Western allies call for ‘ceasefire’ they mean not of Israeli bombs but of Palestinian demands for self-determination, dignity and freedom. In recent weeks, the phrase “give peace a chance” has again been weaponised to deflect calls for justice and accountability. But…
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Peter Oborne has written the most powerful, detailed summary so far of Britain’s complicity in the Israeli military’s onslaught on Gaza. Book review by Tim Llewellyn.
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The killing of Palestinians in Gaza continues, reports our man there, Sami Abu Salem, trappped with his family in the central strip. The Israelis need war, he says—they prefer the military field to the political, for there they are the stronger. Hear his report.
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