By John McHugo C Hurst & Co Publishers ISBN:9781805266679 £25.00 Review by The Rt Revd Michael Doe Watch webinar with the author The hallmark of the Balfour Project, and now the Britain Palestine Project, is that it is not an academic history society, nor a partisan campaigning body, but rather a charity strongly committed to…
by Francesca Albanese Hardie Grant Books Review by Mike Scott-Baumann This book, by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, consists of the personal stories of 10 people who have provided the author with a ‘constant source of inspiration’ and who have realised that ‘When the World Sleeps, it falls on us,…
By Miranda Pinch 16 Oct 2026 I had already read several reviews of Naza before seeing it. I was doubtful that I would have anything new to say or indeed that I would learn anything new. But having the information condensed in that way and hearing it as it was filmed and recorded in Tel…
By Eyal WeizmanVintage PublishingISBN 9781911717331£20.00 Review by Don Macintyre Since there are few more dynamic man-shaped environments than that long operated by Israel in occupied Palestinian territory, it is understandable that a qualified architect, Eyal Weizman, has become the leading analyst of its use as an instrument of subjugation. This is not only about the…
by Tawfiq Al-Ghussein Published by the Britain Palestine Project Hardcover £19.99. Paperback £9.99 Reviewed by MIKE SCOTT-BAUMANN This book is a necessary read for those who wish to understand the continuities in the ways in which Palestine has been administered over the past 100 years. The author’s central thesis is that, from the time of…
The indomitable activists of the Bund [i] HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY The Story of the Jewish Bund By Molly Crabapple One World, New York 2026 By Mike Joseph When asked how history would treat him, Winston Churchill replied “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”.…
Review by Andrew Cockburn Operation Wrath of God: The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad’s Assassination Campaign by Aviva Guttmann. Cambridge, 336 pp., £25, August 2025,ISBN 9781 009 503 068 THE KILLING OF Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with a number of other leading officials, in the first few hours of the Iran War has confirmed that…
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.’
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
Ilan Pappe unveils how over a century of aggressive lobbying changed the map of the Middle East.
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…
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.
Fergusson gives voice to the fears and aspirations of the region’s inhabitants and highlights the centrality of water in negotiating future peace.
The untold story of Britain’s role in the Israel–Palestine conflict. Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2025.
On the centenary of the Palestine Mandate, Peter Shambrook reveals the truth of how the Israel–Palestine conflict was born in Britain.
In this comprehensive and stimulating overview, Middle East expert Michael Scott-Baumann charts its history from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Weaving together the personal and the political, Three Worlds offers a fresh perspective on Arab-Jews, caught in the crossfire of Zionism and nationalism.
Tim Llewellyn reviews a forensically researched account of the activities of Israel’s advocates in Britain.
‘Stranger in My Own Land’ chronicles a desperate, at times surreal, search for a homeland between the Galilee, the West Bank and the diaspora.
We are republishing this review of ‘Collusion Across the Jordan’ (1988), the first book to demonstrate conclusively that in 1947–8, Britain, Jordan and the Zionists worked to ensure there would be no Palestinian state.
Israel and its acolytes have long pushed the agenda that anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Jewish racism. A new book shows how this endeavour came at the expense of Palestinians and diaspora Jews alike.
Jerome Segal describes in detail how the PLO Declaration of Independence was composed less than a year after the outbreak of the first Intifada, by whom and for what purpose.
A subtle psychological portrait of the author’s relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights.
Looking at the writing of – and literally on – Jerusalem, Wallach offers a new reading of the Israel/Palestine conflict through its material culture.
An evocation of place through story, led by the voices of Jerusalemites.