Sir Vincent Fean, BPP trustee and former chair, argues that Israel’s unlawful war of choice against Iran, and its continued destructive military occupation of and assaults on Gaza and the West Bank, mean Britain must take concrete action to protect the State of Palestine it recognised last autumn.
Read our full briefing for the Palestinian Refugees Policy Forum.
Construction tenders have been issued for the E1 Settlement. UK Government action is needed to stop the splitting of the West Bank.
More West Bank Palestinians have been physically routed out of their homes and villages in the illegally occupied Territory during the first three months of 2026 than in the whole of 2025, reports the UN. The United Kingdom has many ways of acting against this terror, writes Brian Brivati, BPP executive director.
An investigative reporter with +972 describes a devastating settler attack, undertaken in apparent co-ordination with the Israeli army.
Brian Brivati, BPP Executive Director, reports.
Encounters in Palestine during a visit in January 2026, by Miranda Pinch.
United Nations Association – UK statement on the escalatory attacks on Iran, and what Britain and its allies can do.
Freed Palestinian prisoner Nael Barghouti describes what kept him going – his faith in and work for the struggle for freedom.
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.
The recognition of Palestine as a state refocuses attention on Britain’s 20th-century legacy in the Holy Land. This 2016 lecture on events involving Henry McMahon, Mark Sykes and Arthur Balfour examines more than two years’ spread of British duplicity and contradictory policies whose consequences live on in the disaster of Palestine.
In a personal view on the 108th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Brian Brivati, Executive Director of the Britain Palestine Project, traces the disastrous history of British Imperialist policies in the ‘Near East’.
Herbert Samuel, Britain’s first – and Zionist – High Commissioner in Palestine, was able to deploy the contradictions and vagaries of the Balfour Declaration to the eternal advantage of the Zionists, right from the start.
Dirty Work: how an Israeli eye-witness account of the Nakba disappeared from view
In this new spin-off series, Chair Andrew Whitley and Trustee Sir Vincent Fean sit down for a candid, unscripted conversation on the latest developments shaping Palestine, Israel and Britain’s role in the region.
With Professor Yossi Mekelberg. Tuesday 14 April 2026 at 3pm UK time.
This BPP podcast series with Lara Bird-Leakey examines whether International Law is in a fit state to bring justice and human rights to the Palestinian people.
Choose from more than 150 BPP podcasts available on Spotify, featuring expert guests from a wide range of professional fields.
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We investigate the contradictory promises and actions which defined British Mandatory rule in Palestine and laid the groundwork for the Nakba (the catastrophe) and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. This is essential viewing for understanding Britain’s legacy in the region and the situation on the ground today.
In this wide-ranging and deeply insightful conversation, Susie Becher — Communications Director of the Policy Working Group (PWG), longtime activist, and former US Embassy analyst — 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 Balfour Declaration was published on 2 November 1917. It stated the intent of the British government to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine. William Dalrymple (historian and BPP patron) and Anita Anand (historian) are joined by Tom Segev (Israeli historian and writer) to discuss the declaration and the ensuing British mandate for Palestine.
Illegal settlements are a war crime. UK trade with them must stop. Use our template to urge your MP to support a full ban on UK trade, services and investment linked to illegal Israeli settlements – and to uphold international law.
The Britain Palestine Project is proud to support the launch of the international campaign to ban trade with Israel’s illegal settlements, backed by a new report: Trading with Illegal Settlements.
Recognition is a vital first step, but it must be given real meaning through action. Britain’s historic responsibilities, and its obligations as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, require more than symbolic gestures.
Our Chair’s response to 14 Palestinians who have filed a legal petition demanding the British Government account for systematic violations of international law during its occupation of Palestine (1917–48). The Britain Palestine Project urges the Government to meet its historic responsibilities.
Our new ‘Recognition Is the Beginning’ merch collection celebrates this moment while calling for meaningful change. Every item helps amplify the message that recognition must lead to real progress.
John Bond and Ian Wellens review Palestine 36, the moving and revealing feature film that shows how British forces used murderous methods to end the Palestinian Arab uprising of 1936–39. Those methods are still in use today, by Israel, in all the occupied Palestinian territory.
A young English woman reporter tells the personal stories of Arabs, Jews and Britons during wartime under the British Mandate, and describes the terror that tore the country apart as Zionist forces prevailed. Yet, she maintained hope for compromise. Review by Tim Llewellyn.
Jean-Pierre Filiu is a French historian and author of Gaza: A History. He had visited Gaza many times before 7 Oct 2023, yet he writes: “Nothing had prepared me for what I saw and experienced in Gaza between 19 Dec 2024 and 21 Jan 2025.” Review by Mike Scott-Baumann.
Tim Llewellyn reviews Peter Oborne’s Complicit: Britain’s role in the destruction of Gaza – a detailed, minutely notated and sourced polemic by an outraged Englishman. Not one aspect of the UK establishment escapes his wrath.