With Jack Munayer, Director of International Relations at Yesh DinYesh Din – Volunteers for Human Rights is an Israeli organisation registered as a non-profit in Israel. Wed 21 October 2026 3pm UK time Jack Munayer was born and raised in Jerusalem to a British mother and Palestinian Christian-citizen of Israel father. He completed his BA…
Free speech, Palestine and building a new social media platform 25th August 2026 Who controls what appears in our social media feeds, and who decides which voices are amplified, suppressed or removed altogether? Diana Safieh speaks to Issam Hijazi, the Palestinian-Jordanian-Australian founder of UpScrolled, an independent social media platform created in response to concerns about…
30th July 2026 No Way But Forward with Brian K. Barber Professor Brian K. Barber talks to us about his book, No Way But Forward: Life Stories of Three Families in the Gaza Strip. Brian first travelled to Palestine as a researcher in the 1990s. Over the following three decades, he developed close relationships with…
Thursday 24th September 2026 3pm UK time REGISTER HERE Dr Anne Irfan is a historian and lecturer at University College London, researching the history and politics of Palestinian displacement. She is author of the books Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the international refugee system (Columbia University Press, 2023) and A Short History of the Gaza…
Wednesday 15th July 2026 3pm UK time REGISTER HERE John Lyndon is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP), the largest network of peacebuilding NGOs in Israel/Palestine. He brings with him over a decade of experience leading NGOs concerned with conflict resolution and international development, with a particular focus on the…
1 July 2026 What happens when a healthcare system is systematically dismantled during war? Professor Nick Maynard – consultant surgeon, humanitarian, and Chair of Medical Aid for Palestinians – shares his eyewitness testimony from multiple medical missions inside Gaza since October 2023. Drawing on over sixteen years of experience working in Palestinian hospitals, Professor Maynard…
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.
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.
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.
Tim and Julia have recently returned from visits to the occupied West Bank as Ecumenical Accompaniers (or human rights monitors).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Britain Palestine Project reflects on the political, legal and humanitarian developments of 2025 and looks ahead to the challenges and opportunities shaping 2026.
Susie Becher – Communications Director of the Policy Working Group – explores the state of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the failures of diplomacy, and the urgent need for international engagement to secure a just two-state solution.
The BPP’s Diana Safieh, in conversation with Humza Yousaf, former First Minister of Scotland, Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Pollok, recorded on 20th November 2025.
Tuesday 7th October 2025, 6:30pm (UK time) Buy ticket Join the Britain Palestine Project for an online screening of From the Nakba to Camp David (35 mins). Following the screenings, we’ll host a live panel discussion and audience Q&A with: Gillian Mosely, Director of From the Nakba to Camp David Dr Brian Brivati, Executive Director, Britain…
25th September Brian Klug is Hon Fellow in Social Philosophy, Campion Hall, University of Oxford. He has published and lectured extensively on antisemitism, Islamophobia and racism in general, and is one of the authors of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (2021). Earlier this year he took part in a Roundtable in Granada which drafted the document ‘Combating Islamophobia…
In collaboration with Irish Artists for Palestine (IAFP), PalMusic UK and the ESNCM, the Daughters of Jerusalem (DoJ), a 35-piece all-female youth choir and music ensemble, will tour Ireland and the UK for the first time. The purpose of the Tour is to promote Palestinian culture by showcasing young Palestinian musicians as a voice for…
Beyond Borders International Festival – Saturday 23 August 2025Traquair House, Scottish Borders Set in the beautiful grounds of Traquair House, Beyond Borders is a unique weekend of talks, discussions, film screenings, music, and cultural events, bringing together leading thinkers, writers, diplomats, and campaigners from around the world. We’re delighted to be part of the programme…
Double Film Screening: Britain in Palestine & From the Nakba to Camp David with Afif Safieh ️ 25th August 2025 University Chapel, University Avenue, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Doors at 6:00pm | Screenings start at 6:30pm Free entry — donations welcome. Please register in advance to guarantee your place. Join us for a powerful evening of historical reflection…
July 2025 Britain has a unique historic responsibility to advance equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis. One year into a Labour Government, is it really “leading on international law issues” globally, as our Attorney General claims? Not on Israel/Palestine, where the Palestinian right to self-determination is denied. Britain Palestine Project chair Andrew Whitley and trustee…
July 2025 Watch Video Listen to Audio/Podcast We hear from child psychotherapist Teresa Bailey, a founding member of the UK Palestine Mental Health Network. Drawing on decades of experience in children’s mental health services and recent advocacy with colleagues in Gaza, Theresa delivers a searing and compassionate account of what war does to a child’s…
10 June 2025 Professor Menachem Klein speaks on the radicalisation of Israeli society and its support for war crimes in Gaza. Klein, a veteran in unofficial Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and a signatory of the Geneva Agreement, discusses the historical and social transformations leading to the current conflict. He identifies three key structural changes in Israeli society:…
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…
Read the outcomes of the conference here Our conference, The Rule of Law – the route to a better future for Palestinians and Israelis, took place on 8 May 2025 at King’s College London, The Strand, and online. This conference brought together leading legal minds and experts to discuss the role of international law in…
It is our pleasure to present the Britain Palestine Project Conference and Podcast Catalogue, a collection embodying our charity’s mission of advocacy and education. The Britain Palestine Project (BPP), formerly the Balfour Project, is a UK-based educational charity dedicated to promoting peace with justice, security, and equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis. Central to our…
20th February 2025 Watch Recording Here Listen to Recording Here Dr. Lex Takkenberg spoke on the basic facts about the Agency’s mandate, history and work on behalf of Palestinian refugees. A Dutch National, he is Senior Advisor on the Question of Palestine at ARDD, Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development, in Amman. From 1989 until…
6th February Charlotte Andrews-Briscoe is a Lawyer with GLAN and a Consultant at Bindmans LLP. Charlotte works on GLAN’s public law litigation, both domestically and internationally, particularly with respect to the prevention of the commission of war crimes, and accountability thereafter. Charlotte is a member of the legal team representing Al Haq in Al Haq…
January 2025 Watch Here Listen Here View Miranda’s Slides Here Miranda’s mother was a secular Jewish refugee from the Holocaust in 1938. She was always bitterly opposed to what was being done to the Palestinians in her name as a Jew. Because of that, Miranda became an Ecumenical Accompanier in 2009, spent 3 months in…
Click here for more information on Monica Spooner’s new book.
4th December 2024 Click here to download slides. Thair Abu Ras is a PhD candidate at the department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. A Palestinian citizen of Israel, Thair has extensive experience in civil society in Israel. Thair worked for Mossawa – The advocacy centre for Arab citizens in Israel’, “Sikkuy-Aufoq:…
14th November 2024 Jonathan Kuttab is a co-founder of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq and co-founder of Nonviolence International. A well-known international human rights lawyer, Jonathan practices in the US, Palestine and Israel. He serves on the Board of Bethlehem Bible College and is President of the Board of Holy Land Trust. Jonathan was…