Britain Palestine Project: A New Chapter

On 13 March 2025, we formally relaunched as the Britain Palestine Project, marking a renewed commitment to advocating for justice, equality, and Britain’s responsibility in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The transition from the Balfour Project to the Britain Palestine Project reflects our mission to hold Britain accountable for its historical obligations and to push for meaningful…

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Balfour’s ‘colonial deceit’

Feb 2025 In this article, in Life and Work, the monthly magazine of the Church of Scotland, Jackie Macadam interviews Monica Spooner and her husband Roger, founders of the Balfour Project (now the Britain Palestine Project), about their discovery of the Balfour Declaration and its consequent injustices for the Palestinians; and about Monica’s book about it…

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Written evidence submitted to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee by the Balfour Project Charity (IPC0039)

30 Dec 2024 Question: What is the UK’s role in finding a resolution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians? The charity’s aims are educational. It sheds light on Britain’s role and responsibilities from before the 1917 Balfour Declaration through the Mandate period and up to today. It seeks to advance equal rights for Palestinians…

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‘Bomb the area, gas the tunnels’: Israel’s unbridled war on Gaza’s underground

Unable to pinpoint Hamas commanders in Gaza’s tunnels, the Israeli army decimated entire residential blocks with bunker-buster bombs to crush the passages below and flood them with lethal fumes, according to an investigation by Yuval Abraham 6 Feb, 2025 From the Israeli investigative journal +972 and Local Call The Israeli army intensively bombarded residential areas…

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British Palestinians urge UK arms and trade embargo on Israel

The report British Military Collaboration with Israel (January 2025), published by the British Palestinian Committee, examines the extent of the United Kingdom’s military ties with Israel and their implications under international law. It argues that the UK’s support – through arms exports, military logistics, and intelligence cooperation – contributes to Israel’s military operations in Gaza…

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Balfour Project backs call on UK to address alleged Israel breaches of international law

UNRWA must continue its vital work, says UK parliamentary report on occupied Palestinian territory, citing humanitarian catastrophe 20 January 2025 Summary of the report and recommendations The report by the UK parliamentary International Development Committee* provides a critical examination of the humanitarian and legal dimensions of the ongoing situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).…

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Amnesty International affirms Israel has committed genocide in Gaza: the UK Government must respond

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 framework of the Genocide Convention to examine prohibited acts contained within it and the specific…

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The UK is right to declare respect for ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant

By Andrew Whitley and Lara Bird-Leakey 22 November 2024 Yesterday, 21 Nov 2024, the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague unanimously confirmed arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. In doing so, the judges rejected the applications by Israel which sought to dismiss…

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The Balfour Project condemns the Israel Parliament’s decision to ban UNRWA

By Lara Bird-Leakey 30 Oct 2024 In an unsurprising yet unprecedented attack, the Israeli Knesset voted on Monday 28 Oct to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (for Palestinian refugees) inside Israel and the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). The legislation states that UNRWA “shall not establish any representation, provide any services or conduct…

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No bombs, no bodies

By Mike Joseph ‘No bombs, no bodies’, wrote a viewer about my film, GAZA A Story of Love and War, ‘and yet so powerful and moving’. Lacking the expected screenplay of horror that fills television and online news daily since October 2023, this film may at first seem little more than two journalists talking about…

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A personal view: What the last year showed us about how the UK handles international law and values Palestinian life

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 rule of law and turn a blind eye to the victimisation of the Palestinian people,…

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