21 Sept. 2025 A group of bishops with a close interest in the Holy Land have welcomed the announcement that the UK has formally recognised a Palestinian state. The Bishop of Southwark, Christopher Chessun, the Church of England’s lead bishop for the Middle East, and the Bishops of Chelmsford, Gloucester and Norwich, said the decision…
The World This Weekend: Rashid Khalidi & Robert Malley on BBC Radio 4 On The World This Weekend (BBC Radio 4, Sunday 21 Sept), host Jonny Dymond spoke with two leading voices on the Middle East. Robert Malley, American lawyer and conflict resolution specialist, explained why he no longer believes the two-state solution offers a…
As a key deadline approaches in the United Nations General Assembly, a little-used UN mechanism, immune from the US veto, could bring military protection to the Palestinian people – if we demand it. By Craig Mokhiber 27 Aug, 2025 After 22 months of unprecedented carnage, three things are clear: (1) the Israeli regime will not…
The International Crisis Group examines Israel’s continuing campaign of death and destruction in Gaza, the US Administration’s failure to restrain or stop Israel, the ambivalent and possibly destructive US policies towards the Palestinians, and urges the European and Arab nations to take concrete measures to restrain Israel through trade and cultural sanctions and to hold…
By Mike Joseph 28 Sept 2025 In this extraordinarily candid outpouring of testimony from the head of a family in flight from Israel’s army, Gazan journalist Sami abu Salem talks to film-maker Mike Joseph about his fears for his and his family’s future: it is not only death and humiliation that haunt Sami by the…
The criminal, felonious, unforgivable project of Gaza’s destruction is an all-Israeli project. It could not have happened without the cooperation – whether through active contribution or silence – of all parts of Jewish Israeli society. By Michael Sfard 31 Aug, 2025 “That’s my family, Kay. It’s not me.” When Michael Corleone (played flawlessly by Al…
He tried to keep Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital open as Israel invaded. He was seized outside the hospital by the Israeli army and has been imprisoned ever since By Amel Guettatfi Drop Site News 12 Sept 2025 In the early hours of 27 Dec 2024, the walls of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza shook…
By Haroon Siddique and Pippa Crerar, in The Guardian 7 Sep 2025 Petition, drafted by human rights lawyers, says war crimes were committed during British occupation of Palestine A group of Palestinians will serve a legal petition asking the UK to take responsibility for what they call “serial international law violations”, including war crimes committed…
Fourteen Palestinians have launched a legal petition directed at the British Government, challenging it to account for Britain’s systematic breaches of international law during its occupation of Palestine.
Our beloved Awdah was taken from us too soon, but his vision and commitment to Umm al-Khair live on. As his family and community, we are determined to continue the projects he began and to stay connected with friends and supporters around the world. Here you’ll find ways to remember Awdah, support his family, and…
Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive army intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian reporters. By Yuval Abraham 14 Aug 2025 Reprinted from Israel-based investigative journal +972 and Local Call The Israeli military has operated a special unit called…
On the morning of Monday 28 July 2025, a bulldozer from Eyal Hari Yehuda, Yinon Levi’s construction company, was working the land east of the village of Umm al-Kheir which is categorised as state land. The villagers were concerned that the bulldozer would damage the village’s informal water pipes and electricity connection. This concern was…
By Michael Sfard 30 July 2025 I want to say something about the West Bank. Not about starvation, not about torture, not about annihilation. About simple, personal, small (relatively) evil. I have been a lawyer for 26 years. I’ve been representing Palestinians who live in the West Bank throughout them. I have represented individuals, families…
Over 50 British former diplomats and UN officials have signed a letter to the Prime Minister, urging the UK to recognise Palestinian statehood: Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Cc: Rt Hon David Lammy MP, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs 23 July 2025 …
By David Shulman 25 June 2025 Engineering a second Nakba and annexing the occupied territories are integral parts of Netanyahu’s war against the State of Israel’s democratic institutions, its social solidarity and above all the rule of law. For many years Israeli human rights activists in the occupied Palestinian territories have been saying, as vociferously…
Human Rights Council, 59th session 16 June–11 July 2025 The human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories ‘From the economy of occupation to the economy of genocide’ Report of the Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 THIS REPORT investigates the corporate…
By Menachem Klein 30 June, 2025 Israel’s security doctrine rests on three conceptual foundations. The first is a defensive military strategy designed to deliver a decisive victory upon the presumed failure of deterrence. Prior to the 1967 war, this was the sole foundation of Israel’s security approach. The concept still exists, but it has been…
By Mike Hadfield Co-op News Digital Editor 24 June 2025 The Co-op Group has today announced it will stop sourcing relationships with countries where there are “internationally recognised community-wide human rights abuses and violations of international law”. This policy, approved by the board, states that, wherever possible, the Group will not use ingredients in Co-op-branded products…
Statement by the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 18-24 June 2025. “But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” – Amos 5:24 (NRSV) The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 18-24 June 2025,…
Published on 10 June 2025 By Martin Griffiths, Honorary Associate, and Philip Proudfoot, Research Fellow, at the Institute of Development Studies On 30 May 2025, IDS Honorary Associate and former United Nations Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths described the situation in Gaza as genocide. Alongside IDS Research Fellow Philip Proudfoot, here he calls for a decisive…
9 June 2025 In a letter to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, 96 UK parliamentarians have demanded sanctions on Israel for war crimes against Palestinians and systematic violations of international law, including imposing targeted sanctions, a ban on trade with illegal settlements, and a suspension of the existing UK-Israel trade agreement. Here is the…
President Emmanuel Macron, France Prime Minister Keir Starmer, UK Prime Minister Mark Carney, Canada 6 June 2025 Dear President Macron, Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Starmer We urge you to recognise the State of Palestine now as an essential, transformative step towards peace. We welcome your joint statement of 19 May, in which you…
Posted 13 June 2025 by Joseph Finlay reprinted from Torat Albion 21 May 2025 I think we need to first understand that anti-Zionism can mean multiple things. Jewish anti-Zionists have been motivated by Orthodox Judaism, Progressive Judaism, Communism, British patriotism, concern over antisemitism and of course solidarity with Palestinians, though that probably influenced the fewest…
22 May 2025 The Church of England House of Bishops has issued this statement on the situation in Gaza. There has been some criticism in the past that the CofE has not spoken out as strongly as some other churches, but in this statement they say that this has now become a war of aggression.…
Joint statement on the humanitarian situation in Gaza delivered by the British Ambassador to the United Nations, Barbara Woodward, on behalf of Denmark, France, Greece, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. From: the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Dame Barbara Woodward Published; 13 May 2025 We, the UK, Denmark, France, Greece and Slovenia, called for today’s urgent…
On Wednesday 14 May 2025 the BBC’s R4 late afternoon radio news and current affairs programme PM took the unique step of beginning its main broadcast with the full recorded version of a senior UN diplomat’s testimony to the Security Council on the appalling humanitarian disaster that Israel is wreaking on Gaza. The diplomat is…
By Phyllis Starkey, former MP and BPP deputy chair 14 May, 2025 Earlier this week a group of 69 Labour MPs and six Labour peers published a letter they had sent to the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, calling on him to recognise Palestine in concert with France, at the planned Franco-Saudi summit in July. This…
Jewish Voice for Labour Introduction Israel’s treatment of its own citizens and foreign nationals who stand in solidarity with Palestinians can be vicious. Sadly too many other countries, not least the UK, USA and Germany are also clamping down on protests and other actions in support of Palestinians and in opposition to the genocide in…
This introduction is taken from a Jewish Voice for Labour report, and the whole Commons debate was most timely, coming in the week of the BPP conference (in London, on 8 May), which dealt vociferously with this very topic Tuesday’s Middle East debate in the UK Parliament should be a watershed moment in the Starmer…
On 29 April, 2025, at the first official visit of Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa to the United Kingdom, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed setting out a package of support, including more than £100m directed to humanitarian relief, support for Palestinian economic development and strengthening Palestinian Authority governance and reform. This UK funding is explicitly made to…
By Mandy Turner 21 April 2025 In many Western societies there is a very visible disjuncture in political attitudes between entrenched elite support for Israel and growing public support for Palestinian rights, which is highlighting a severe democratic deficit. This article maps this trend in Britain, the country responsible for erasing Palestine from the map…
By Hamdan Ballal 25 April 2025 From The New York Times On 2 March, I won an Academy Award for best documentary for a film I co-directed, No Other Land. It’s hard to put into words how that moment felt. It was one of the most incredible moments of my life. Three weeks later, I…
By Omer Bartov The memory of the Holocaust has, perversely, been enlisted to justify both the eradication of Gaza and the extraordinary silence with which that violence has been met. From The New York Review of Books, 27 March, 2025 In 1904, the Herero people of German Southwest Africa—today’s Namibia—launched a series of attacks on…
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…
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…