Category Archives: Balfour Project viewpoint

2 November 2025 By Dr Brian Brivati, Executive Director, Britain Palestine Project “A British ‘officer in Flanders in 1918, transplanted to a British messroom in the same country in 1793, would be more at home than in a foreign messroom … Continue reading →

On Monday 22 September, Britain Palestine Project trustee Sir Vincent Fean joined Trevor Phillips on Times Radio’s The Times at One to discuss the UK’s recognition of the State of Palestine. Sir Vincent stressed that recognition cannot be a symbolic gesture … Continue reading →

By Dr Brian Brivati, Executive  Director, Britain Palestine Project (writing in a personal capacity) 12 Sept 2025 In the 1930s, British soldiers smashed down the door of a family home in Nablus and struck the mother inside with a rifle … Continue reading →

By Dr Brian Brivati, Executive Director of BPP 15 August 2025 The day after Trump’s inauguration, the IDF launched a new military operation in the West Bank. The main target of Operation Iron Wall (an unambiguous reference to the policy … Continue reading →

By Dr Brian Brivati, Executive Director, Britain Palestine Project 6 Aug 2025 Israel appears poised to escalate policies that could irrevocably undermine the prospects for an independent Palestinian state – making robust international pressure more critical than ever. In recent … Continue reading →

Our charity has long argued for the unconditional recognition of the state of Palestine alongside Israel – an acknowledgment of the inherent right to self-determination of the Palestinian people and a long overdue expression of Britain’s commitment to equal rights … Continue reading →

Dr Brian Brivati, Executive Director, Britain Palestine Project 24 July 2025 The Britain Palestine Project (BPP) welcomes the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) report on the Israel–Palestine conflict (HC 488) as a significant, constructive intervention on United Kingdom  policy. This cross-party report … Continue reading →

Britain Palestine Project Trustee Bishop Michael Doe wrote the following letter to the Church Times, which was published on 4 July 2025 Madam As the Board of Deputies of British Jews continues to punish any of its members who make … Continue reading →

By Dr Brian Brivati Executive Director, Britain Palestine Project 22 July 2025 The statement by the British Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, on 21 July 2025 – issued alongside a new statement from 28 other nations calling for an immediate Gaza … Continue reading →

Tim Llewellyn, BPP website editor, summarises a powerful indictment of Israel’s international law violations at cultural and religious sites across Palestine   25 June 2025   The special United Nations body investigating Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territory has … Continue reading →

By Andrew Whitley BPP Chair 20 May 2025 This 19 May 2025 joint statement represents a noticeable hardening and clarification of UK policy on several fronts. In the months leading up to it, the Starmer Government had already set a … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

30 Dec 2024 Question: What is the UK’s role in finding a resolution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians? The Balfour Project The charity’s aims are educational. It sheds light on Britain’s role and responsibilities from before the 1917 … Continue reading →

Balfour Project evidence to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry Submitted 30 Dec 2024 I hope you can find time to read the evidence we have submitted to the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) inquiry into UK policy on Palestine/Israel. It … Continue reading →

By Richard Burden 12 Feb 2025 Last month, I wrote about the haunting photo of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya standing alone and unarmed in front of advancing Israeli tanks amid ruins around his hospital in Gaza. I called the post “What courage … Continue reading →

By Andrew Whitley, Balfour Project Chair 10 February 2025 The Balfour Project believes that no solution proposed by the Trump administration will accord with international law, which the UK is committed to uphold The United States is essential to a … Continue reading →

By Andrew Whitley Chair, Balfour Project 30 Jan 2025 For millions of Palestinians worldwide, 30 Jan 2025 is set to become yet another painful landmark in their long struggle for self-determination. As of this date, Israel hopes to sever the … Continue reading →

Today, 5 Dec 2024, Amnesty International, a respected, international non-governmental organisation, has published an extensive report which concludes that Israel has committed, and is continuing to commit, a genocide in Gaza. Please read the report here.  The report uses the … Continue reading →

These are the words of Amro, the informally adopted Gazan grandson of MIRANDA PINCH, a long-time member of the Balfour Project Advisory Forum. Miranda recently made a solidarity pilgrimage to the illegally Israeli occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem as … Continue reading →

By Lara Bird-Leakey 25 October 2024 For 384 days the world has watched the horrors unleashed by a rogue state acting with complete impunity. For 384 days, the UK Government has used the shield of Western democracy to ignore the … Continue reading →

As a result of the worsening situation in the Palestinian Territory, as well as the July ruling by the ICJ Advisory Opinion that the occupation in this territory by Israel is illegal, the Balfour Project wrote the letter below to … Continue reading →

‘Your name and your deeds were forgotten Before your bones were dry, And the lie that slew you is buried Under a deeper lie.  ‘But the thing that I saw in your face No power can disinherit: No bomb that … Continue reading →