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 thisfirst report, Sami describes the dilemmas this attempted genocide poses him and his young children, in conversation with Mike Joseph. Sami also mourns…
By Brain Brivati BPP Executive Director 17 July 2026 On Sunday 12 July 2026, the General Synod of the Church of England passed an amended Carlisle Diocesan-Synod motion concerning the Kairos Palestine documents, including Kairos Palestine II (2025). Contrary to some public commentary, Synod did not adopt Kairos Palestine II as Church doctrine and did…
Final text of the Church of England General Synod motion ‘That this Synod respond to the call of Palestinian Christians to stand in solidarity with them and their fellow Palestinians in non-violent resistance to the ongoing occupation. We lament the loss of Israeli and Palestinian lives and the violations of human dignity and rights on…
By Brian Brivati, BPP Executive Director 10 July 2026 Andy Burnham is being urged to take immediate action on Israel’s unlawful occupation of the State of Palestine as soon as he becomes Prime Minister. At a House of Lords briefing on 9 July, senior legal and foreign policy figures warned that the United Kingdom’s recognition of Palestine requires concrete measures…
By Richard Burden 7 July 1016 Early last year I wrote about the unlawful detention of Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya, who had stood alone and unarmed in front of Israeli tanks as they advanced through the ruins of his hospital in Gaza, the Kamal Adwan on 27 Dec 2024. My last blog about him…
By Brian Brivati, Executive Director 7 July 2026 This United Nations Commission of Inquiry examines Israel’s use of torture, inhumane and degrading treatment, including sexual and gender-based violence, against Palestinian children, particularly during mass arrests and in detention. It analyses pattern of Israel’s targeting of critical infrastructure essential to children, such as healthcare facilities and…
By James Macintyre Church Times, 3 June 2026 Antisemitism can be condemned at the same time as opposing the actions of the current Israeli Government, says the Rt.Rev Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester. THE Bishop has expressed her “deep disturbance” at the binary nature of the debate on anti-semitism, which, she says, can be condemned…
At our 2 June 2026 Annual Conference, Recognition is the Beginning, we launched the Britain Palestine Project’s Statement of Principles – a concise call for equal rights, dignity and security for Palestinians and Israelis, grounded in international law, accountability and Palestinian self-determination. We are inviting supporters, academics, artists, campaigners, faith leaders and public figures to…
Daniel Levy: hear more of him next Tuesday at the BPP annual conference. Sarah Montague, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s lunchtime news magazine The World at One, heard more than she probably bargained for on 27 May when Gaza businessman Hani abu Bakr spelt out the appalling facts on the ground for Palestinians seven months…
Israel has constructed 25 km of earth berms roughly along the yellow line in Gaza and is fortifying 38 military bases on the eastern side of the territory it controls. Image by Forensic Architecture. Newly constructed Israeli military bases along the “yellow line” appear like elevated military forts in Gaza’s devastated landscape By Forensic Architecture…
Palestinian archives in Gaza, with vital records, were in great danger of being destroyed by Israel in its relentless bombardment campaign – after they had also been subjected to many cyber-attacks. At the same time Israel declared the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) organisation non grata and had to operate…
State Institutional Roles, Legal Tools, and International Legal Consequences 15 May 2026 / The 78th Annual Commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba Key Takeaways from Israeli Settler Terror Unmasked • The report argues that since 2023, settler violence, land seizure, and forced displacement in the occupied West Bank have intensified significantly, alongside structural changes inside the…
This article uses two recent BPP webinar/screenings – Omer Bartov’s discussion of Israel: What Went Wrong? and Gillian Mosley’s film Planet Israel – to examine the nature of the State of Israel and the question of whether it could ever have become a “normal” liberal democracy. It engages with Bartov’s distinction between Zionism as a rescue project and Zionism…
By Tawfiq al-Ghussein 6 May 2026 The legal status of the British Mandate for Palestine has long been treated as a settled matter within the history of international law, typically framed as part of the institutional settlement overseen by the League of Nations after the First World War. Within this conventional account, the Mandate system…
Photo caption: Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Daniel Levy from Fourcast (via YouTube) Sat 2 May 2026 Jewish Voice for Liberation Introduction: Channel 4’s The Four Cast took a deep dive on 30 April into the implications of the Golders Green stabbings and the calls for restricting Palestinian protest which have followed. Channel 4 lead presenter Krishnan…
By Eyal Weizman This article is reprinted from the London Review of Books, Vol.48.No 7, 23 April 2026 with the kind permission of the author and the LRB THE UNITED NATIONS Genocide Convention of 1948 lists five acts that constitute genocide when committed with the intent to destroy a group in whole or in part.…
Letter to the Financial Times from Sir Vincent Fean and 60 other former British Ambassadors and former High Commissioners 24 April 2026 America is indeed falling out of love with Israel (Opinion, April 22). So is Europe. While the world watches Iran and Lebanon, Israel extends control over the West Bank and Gaza. Its accelerating…
by Sir Vincent Fean and Dr Brian Brivati, of the Britain-Palestine Project, and Hasan Pandor, of SOAS, University of London 20 April 2026 While all eyes are on the American/Israeli war with Iran, Israel proceeds with its systematic West Bank annexation. German Chancellor Merz has condemned these “annexation moves”, including the illegal E1 settlement project…
Photo Caption: View of Qaraoun Dam And Litani River With Jeb Janine, Lebanon. Image: Paul Saad/Shutterstock By Moshe Gilad Haaretz 9 Apr 2026 Israel, and the Zionist movement going back to the 19th Century, always coveted the Litani River as the northern frontier of any future Israeli state. The Litani rises in the Bekaa Valley,…
By Tawfiq Al- Ghussein 9 April 2026 How law, violence and narrative converge to sustain a continuous structure of dispossession and generational harm Trauma, when applied to nations, is often narrated as rupture, a moment of exceptional violence interrupting an otherwise stable historical trajectory. That framing does not fit the Palestinian experience. The Palestinian condition…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
United Nations Association – UK statement on the escalatory attacks on Iran, and what Britain and its allies can do now.
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.’
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.
A controversy over the language a bishop used about Israel’s campaign against Gaza has dominated the letters pages of the Church Times.
Encounters in Palestine during my visit in January 2026, by Miranda Pinch.
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.
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.
‘Dear Foreign Secretary … I wish to draw your attention to a grave moral, legal, and humanitarian inconsistency that now urgently requires address.’
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.
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?
‘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.’