Dr Brian Brivati Executive Director, Britain Palestine Project Click here to read Sir Dominic Grieve, Israel does not have right to close UK consulate in Jerusalem, Foreign Office advised, The Guardian, 28 September 2026 Summary Israel’s threat to force the closure of the British Consulate-General, Jerusalem Britain Palestine Project response Israel’s threatened closure of the…
Photo caption: The Israel Prime Minister, the UAE Emir and the late Hamas leader A new book claims that In September 2023, the President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohamed bin Zayed, called the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, to warn him that Hamas and other Palestinian resistance fighters were about to launch a major…
By Tim Livesey Chair of Trustees, Britain Palestine Project 9 Sept 2026 It would be hard to overstate the historic significance of the British Foreign Secretary’s, Ed Miliband’s, statement to the House of Commons on Tuesday. Not only because successive United Kingdom Foreign Secretaries, and Prime Ministers, have failed to grasp the nettle of responding…
Members of the Palestinian Higher Committee exiled by the British mandatory power in Palestine to the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean. From right to left: Dr. Hussein Al-Khalidi – Yaqoub Bey Al-Ghussein – Rashid Al-Haj Ibrahim – Ahmad Hilmi Pasha. Missing from the picture is Fouad Saba, the fifth member of the Committee – Photograph taken in the Seychelles in 1937 or 1938.
By Ian Wellens Annea Press Reviewed by SM In Ian Wellens’s recently published A History of Palestine in Five Fruits, the land speaks for itself. Wellens presents five fruits as sources of Palestinian history, deriving from them a narrative which is rooted in place, grounded in historical fact and both succinctly and stylishly told. During…
Rt Hon Andy Burnham MPPrime Minister of the United Kingdom,10 Downing Street Saturday 22 August 2026 Dear Prime Minister, Upholding international law: France and the UK should act together on Palestine The United Kingdom and France share values and an international outlook. As permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations, with a…
9 June 2026: Layan Nasir, a young Palestinian woman from Bir Zeit in the Ramallah area of the Israel-occupied West Bank, and a student at Bir Zeit university, was arrested in July 2021 in a dawn raid at her home, on charges of unlawful association. She was later remanded on bail, but arrested again in…
18 February 2026 Sir, Israel should listen to its friends. Not only does its government restrict aid access to Gaza and ban 37 reputable NGOs (including Médecins Sans Frontières) from working in Palestine, but it is going for broke implementing its avowed policy of land expropriation in the West Bank. Our government has condemned each…
By Nathan Thrall 26 March 2026 The Israeli writer S.Yizhar’s 1949 novella Khirbet Khizeh portrays the violent reality of the Nakba. For decades it was part of the canon of Hebrew literature. That has changed (Originally titled as “Dirty Work”, The New York Review of Books, 2006 Nathan Thrall, March 26 issue.) S. Yizhar was…
Please oppose the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill26 June 2023 Britain Must Act Now to Block Unprecedented Israeli Settlement Plans27 February 2023 Past advocacy actions Reckless folly: our Government must not move the UK Embassy to Jerusalem10 October 2022 #StandWithThe618 August 2022 Unlawful Israeli army assault on Palestinian human rights organisations in…
There is now extensive evidence that the government of Israel is blatantly violating international law in its rule over the occupied Palestinian lands and its oppressive practices against the Palestinian people. As a friend of Israel, I feel obliged to speak out By Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia and member of The Elders,…
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By Julie Elliott MP Europe is neighbour, friend and trading partner to both Israel and Palestine. Economically, the EU/Israel Association Agreement matters greatly to Israel, affording free access to its biggest market. The same terms apply to the UK/Israel Trade Agreement, post-Brexit. Trade between Europe and the Occupied Palestinian Territory – I call it Palestine…
Published by Liz Lightfoot in The Guardian on 8 June 2021. The government has warned schools to ensure a balanced presentation of opposing views on the conflict between Israel and Palestine, which claimed more than 250 lives last month and sparked a wave of classroom protests in the UK. But teachers may struggle to comply because the only exam board to…
The head of the Palestinian mission to the United Kingdom, Husam Zomlot, has made the following statement: The announcement by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a letter to the Conservative Friends of Israel that the UK opposes the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into war crimes by Israel is deeply regrettable. It marks a…
We, the undersigned, share our deep concern at the threat of illegal Israeli annexation of any part of the occupied Palestinian West Bank. Unilateral annexation is a grave breach of international law, and a further obstacle to achieving equal rights and self-determination for Palestinians alongside Israelis. Annexation must not pass unchallenged, whether it be formal…
Thank you all for joining us. I’m privileged to speak to you and address this really important and relevant topic of Christian Zionism as an imperial theology. The impact and influence of Christian Zionism have been manifested, especially in the last four years during the Trump presidency, and it was evident to everyone how influential…
Israel/Palestine: Equal Rights for lasting Peace We acknowledge Britain’s historic responsibilities for inequality and discrimination in Jerusalem and across the Holy Land. They stem from the last century, through the Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate for Palestine, with consequences which are still felt today. Past British responsibility for present injustice demands British commitment to…
Question by Baroness Janke (Lib Dem) on 24th January 2022 (HL5626) To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to protect Palestinians in territories occupied by Israel from damage to olive groves and crops by Israeli settlers. Answer from Lord Ahmad (Conservative) on 7th February 2022 We understand the particular significance of olive trees…