We are inviting submissions for the Spooner Prize – an annual essay competition supporting rigorous, evidence-led research on Britain’s role in Palestine. Open to postgraduate students, early-career researchers, and independent scholars.
This is a new podcast series from the BPP offering informed, candid analysis of the latest developments shaping Palestine, Israel and Britain’s role in the region.
This contemporary account of life in Mandate Palestine during those fraught years of 1943–44 highlights the hopes that existed of an Arab–Jew rapprochement, while at the same time illustrating the compelling forces that were to make compromise impossible.
Colin Shindler’s book undoubtedly ‘sheds much-needed light on the conflict’. However, it is more of a history of Zionism and Israel than of the Israel-Palestine conflict, because it contains much less of the Palestinian narrative.
‘The Gaza I knew, and whose length and breadth I’ve travelled, has ceased to exist.’
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.
Peter Oborne has written the most powerful, detailed summary so far of Britain’s complicity in the Israeli military’s onslaught on Gaza. Book review by Tim Llewellyn.
Two reviews of the feature film ‘Palestine 36’, written and directed by Annemarie Jacir, a Palestinian film-maker from Haifa.
We are proud to launch Palestine Matters, a new podcast series from the Britain Palestine Project in collaboration with Beyond Borders Scotland.
Three British police recruits in 1930s Palestine confront violence, political turmoil, and personal dilemmas during the Arab rebellion, discovering the complexities of colonial rule, land disputes, and their own motivations for serving.
How do you learn about a contentious and divisive history like that of Israel and Palestine? Don’t shy away from the two competing narratives – seek them out, lay them side by side, and immerse yourself in both.
Monday 27 May 2025 6:30pm (UK time) Online ️ £8 / Free for Friends of the Britain Palestine Project CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKET We’re delighted to invite you to a special online screening of the acclaimed documentary Bye Bye Tiberias, followed by a live Q&A with the film’s co-writer Nadine Naous. Directed by Lina…
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…
‘Forgotten’ is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and places in historic Palestine and what they might tell us about the land and the people who live on our small slip of earth between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
Avi Shlaim places Israel’s policy towards the Gaza Strip under an uncompromising lens. Israel has gone beyond land-grabbing and ethnic cleansing to commit the crime of all crimes – genocide.
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…
How the Balfour Project grew to be influential in helping people learn about the tragic conflict in Israel/Palestine.
Speeches, intelligence briefings, diplomatic correspondence, contemporary newspaper articles, and other historical documents from across three centuries.
A unique, factual and evocative narrative that raises awareness of Britain’s historic responsibility and role in the Israel Palestine conflict.
In 25 minutes, this short sequel to GAZA A Story of Love and War, delivers three dramatic moments: The film is based on audience discussions following Ceredigion screenings of GAZA A Story of Love and War. Constituency MP Ben Lake reveals that no subject concerns his constituents more urgently than Gaza. He shares with the audience and…
Watch film here Watch Q&A with director Kavitha Chekuru From air strikes to field executions, Fault Lines investigates the killings of civilians by the Israeli military in Gaza and the role of the United States in the war. As Israel’s bombing campaign continues in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis deepens to catastrophic levels, the Biden…
Ilan Pappe unveils how over a century of aggressive lobbying changed the map of the Middle East.
Sami abu Salem, fleeing south down Gaza with his family, pursued by the Israeli war machine—bombs, drones, rockets, snipers—finds himself in Rafah. He reports here to Mike Joseph, who is chronicling Sami’s plight for the Balfour Project.
In 2023, Balfour Project hosted the first season of Mike Joseph’s audio series, KEYS A Troubled Inheritance. Balfour Project now supports the cinema release of his filmed encounter with Gaza journalist Sami Abu Salem: GAZA A Story of Love and War. Two journalists meet to share stories over a Zoom link. One is Welsh and…
13th February 2024 Watch Recording Listen to Audio/Podcast Professor Nick Maynard trained at Oxford University, Guy’s Hospital, London, and Melbourne, Australia. He is a Consultant Upper GI Surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, and Associate Professor of Surgery at Oxford University. He set up the Oxford Oesophagogastric Cancer Centre in 1997 and is the…
On January 9th 2024, an engaging event took place at Greencoat Place, hosted by Initiatives of Change (IofC UK) in collaboration with the Balfour Project. Peter Shambrook, the author of ‘Policy of Deceit’, was the central figure of the evening, which delved deep into the historical intricacies and current realities of the conflict between Israel…
January 2024 Watch Video Listen to Audio/Podcast In conversation with Andrew Whitley, Balfour Project Chair. From 2010 to November 2018 Charles Bird, OBE, was a Teaching Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK, and was Course Tutor for the Certificate and Advanced Certificate…
7 Oct, 2022 The UK government is being urged to make a formal apology for alleged war crimes by British troops in historical Palestine nearly a century ago. The petition, along with 300 pages of evidence, is being brought by an elderly Palestinian – a former politician – who was shot and wounded by UK…
Written and Oral Questions and Answers that can be found in Hansard (the Official Report) which is the edited verbatim report of proceedings of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Topics Annexation Archaeology COVID-19 Detention of Palestinian children by Israel Environmental issues Education of Israeli and Palestinian children Elections Forced…
A central contributor to the Keys: a Troubled Inheritance podcast the Balfour Project is running (series two picks up in spring, 2024) is Sami Abu Salem. He is the Gazan journalist who contributes the Palestinian side of the story to Mike Joseph‘s journal of his Jewish family’s journey from Nazi persecution to Palestine, Gaza and the Nakba. Sami’s parents…
The Balfour Project podcast Keys: a Troubled Inheritance, tracing the stories of two families, one Jewish and victims of the Nazi genocide, the other Palestinian, uprooted by the Nakba, the Catastrophe of 1948, is written and presented by Michael Joseph, a son of that Jewish family. One of his crucial contacts and contributors to Keys is Sami Abu Salem,…
Britain, Palestine and a history of broken promises: a summary of the book’s narrative, with links to reviews and an interview with the author.
The first comprehensive examination of UN efforts to protect Palestinian human rights in the territories occupied by Israel more than 50 years ago.
28th September 2023 Watch Video Listen to Audio/Podcast The 29th of September marks the centenary of when the League of Nations ‘Mandate Agreement’ for Palestine entered into force in international law. This legal instrument purported to put the commitment to establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine made by Arthur Balfour in the eponymous Declaration of…