Peace with justice, security and 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.
Progress on our requests of UK Government
Two of the BP’s requests to the British Government on Israel/Palestine, made on 6 June 2024, have been met, by the new, Labour administration: on restoring Britain’s UNRWA funding and on the ICC arrest warrant ruling of last May. But far more needs to be done, to end the Gaza war and bring relief and reconstruction for the Palestinians. MORE
A warning for The Candidate
Daniel Levy writes that the US policies for negotiating with Israel are helping only Netanyahu, and thus prolonging the war on Gaza. Kamala Harris should change course. MORE
The Night Won’t End’: Biden’s War on Gaza
Online film screening followed by Q&A with Director and Al Jazeera correspondent Kavitha Chekuru. Thurs 12th Sept, 6.30pm. £8 tickets (£5 students/jobseekers). More
A Palestinian woman vanishes--under British-era law
Israeli security agents seized a young Palestinian woman, Layan Nasir, from her home in the West Bank last April. Her family and friends have not seen her since. The regulations that enabled Israel to do this to her and many thousands of Palestinians since 1948 were inherited from emergency British regulations imposed nearly 90 years ago. A former UN rapporteur and legal historian explains. 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
Two Zionists who opposed a Jewish state
Historian John McHugo tells the stories of Judah Magnes and Martin Buber, two passionate Zionists who sought a land where Arabs and Jews would live together in equality and co-operation. Image: Martin Buber (l), Judah Magnes (r) More
Beijing: Hamas changes tack
Hamas has agreed to a separate, independent Palestinian state--a return to a 'political track', writes Menachem Klein. More
Israeli aggression on the West Bank
BP trustee Richard Burden has personal experience of the occupation forces' brutal tactics in the occupied Palestinian territory...and their violence is getting much worse. More