Peace with justice, security and equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis
Acknowledging Britain’s historic and continuing responsibilities, we work through education and advocacy to advance equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis
Britain in Palestine 1917-1948 investigates 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.
BP urges full UK response to Amnesty 'genocide' report
Amnesty International has found that Israel has committed and is committing genocide in Gaza. The Balfour Project calls on the UK Government to respond substantially to this report, publish its own findings on genocide in Gaza, suspend all arms sales to Israel, and immediately recognise the state of Palestine. MORE
The Balfour Project welcomes the British Government’s commitment to comply with international law following the International Criminal Court’s issuance of arrest warrants for the Israel Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the former Israel Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant. The warrants cite the two men as being responsible for war crimes against the civilians of the Gaza Strip. MORE
We condemn Israel's ban on UNRWA
The Balfour Project condemns as a flagrant breach of international law and humanitarian practice the Israeli Parliament’s vote to ban UNRWA inside Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory, including, most vitally, the killing fields of besieged Gaza. MORE
Israel's 'nightmare scenario'
The clock is ticking for Israel, says Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi in this tour d’horison interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. He surveys the the history of the Palestinian fight for freedom from Balfour to Orde Wingate to Nakba to Netanyahu, and finds that the Israelis just do not understand the nature of the struggle. MORE
Diary of a West Bank mission
Balfour Project and Sabeel member Miranda Pinch describes her visit to the illegally Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, a solidarity pilgrimage to the increasingly menaced and beleaguered Palestinians who live under constant harassment and threat. MORE
The Ian Black Memorial Lecture, 2024
Jim Muir, a former colleague of the late Ian Black, Middle East Correspondent and later Middle East editor of The Guardian, pays tribute to him in this lecture recorded at the London School of Economics Middle East Centre, in November, 2024. Jim Muir was a BBC Middle East Correspondent, in Cairo, Tehran and Beirut. MORE
Britain's 19th Century Zionists
Gabriel Polley reveals how 40 years before the Balfour Declaration British Zionists were eyeing up Palestine as a Jewish homeland. MORE
The Israeli writer and academic Menachem Klein sees the concept of Jewish supremacy replacing Israeli militarism, ushering in ever harsher measures against the Palestinians and a bid to overcome a new’ Axis of Evil’. MORE
How the Balfour Project was born
In her new book, Monica Spooner, a co-founder of the Project with her husband Roger, tells the moving, extraordinary story of how the charity grew out of a chance reading of a vital historical text on a visit to the Middle East. Her book is reviewed by BP Trustee Frances Guy. More
Montagu's warnings about Zionism
It was a 'mischievous political creed,' the Secretary of State for India wrote to the 1917 War Cabinet, which would endanger the presence of the Jews in Britain---'Jewish Britons' rather than 'British Jews'---and drive the Palestinians out of their own country. More
Israel learned methods to suppress Palestinians from British forces
From reshaping land ownership through land laws in 1920 to the brutal suppression of the Arab revolt using administrative detention, house demolition, assassination, exile and collective punishment, Britain ensured there would be no Palestinian state and significantly shaped the region's history. More
Next Webinar: The Palestinians of Israel
Monica Spooner launches her new book on the start of the organisation, Why Didn’t I Know? Britain’s Legacy in Palestine. It charts her journey of discovery about Britain’s record in the Middle East which led to the formation of the Balfour Project, in a bid to change public opinion and policy on Israel and Palestine. 6pm on 17th December 2024. More