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CONFERENCE: Recognition is the beginning Tuesday 2 June 2026 Greenwood Theatre, London Bridge and online NEWS: UK must lead the battle against Israel’s one-state plan Britain must rally its European allies to stop Israel’s annexation of a divided West Bank, with the E1 settlement planned east of Jerusalem as priority. Call for Submissions: Britain & Palestine Essay Competition Deadline: 31 July 2026 HISTORY: Dirty Work – how an Israeli eye-witness account of the Nakba disappeared from view The 1949 Israeli novella Khirbet Khizeh revealed the horrors and ethnic cleansing mechanisms of 1948: the wrecking of towns; the expulsion of Palestinians. Then, as Nathan Thrall reports in The New York Review of Books, in the late 1970s it suddenly became taboo for Israelis. Mission Statement Read full mission statement and history of the charity here. Events and podcasts MillionPodcasts helps you find the best podcasts on the web. Podcast Database for PR – MillionPodcasts WEBINAR: Witnessing the Occupation – life in the West Bank Tim Livesey and Julia Race, Tuesday 19th May 2026 at 3pm UK time PODCAST: Israel: What Went Wrong? Listen on Spotify Choose from more than 150 BPP podcasts available on Spotify, featuring expert guests from a wide range of professional fields. Listen on Substack Many of our podcasts are also available as videos on Substack. Click to visit BPP Substack. News and commentary Countering Israel’s life by the sword 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. The ‘creeping Israeli annexation’ of Palestine An important reportby the PA/PLO spells out the various and accelerating Israeli schemes to effectively annexe the occupied Palestinian territory, and the increasing role in West Bank governance of Israel’s settlement-driven administration. Israel’s Gaza plan: the destruction of the machine for living Eyal Weizman, a British-Israeli architectural analyst, writes that the conditions of life in Gaza that Israel plans and the international community co-operates with are calculatedto deliver physical destruction to the Palestinian population: ‘a slower and more tortuous form of annihilation’ than the blitzkrieg that has gone before. UNRWA’s daring rescue of Palestine refugee records from Israel A Guardian report details how the UN Palestine refugee agency smuggled vital Nakba and other historical Palestinian records and personal documents out of besieged Gaza and Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, avoiding their seizure by the Israeli authorities. A ‘Nakba’ for South Lebanon? Since the earliest days of the Zionist Project, many of its protagonists have covered the Lebanese South. Now the Israeli aim is to invade, empty and occupy ‘North Galilee’. The sword and the neck Are the Palestinians for ever to be victims of Israeli hegemony? BPP Executive Director Brian Brivati examines recent works by two Jewish intellectuals and finds that an Israeli-type ‘manifest destiny’ is unlikely to be replaced by liberal democracy. No weaponisation of antisemitism Israeli-British analyst Daniel Levy says let us not play fast and loose with what is and is not antisemitism. There are many streams of thinking in the Jewish community, and Jewish safety must not come at the cost of violating civil liberties. Read more news and commentary History 1915–17: Britain’s historic contradictions in Palestine 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. The Mandate: Imperial governance disguised as a legal framework Tawfiq al-Ghussein examines the principles and procedures of the British Mandate for Palestine: were they intended to constrain imperial power, or reinforce it? How the first High Commissioner rigged Palestine for the Zionists 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. The hidden history of British war crimes in Palestine Victor Kattan explores Britain’s violent legacy in Palestine under the Mandate, arguing that many of the policies and practices still shaping the region today were rooted in British colonial rule. Read more history Videos Britain in Palestine 1917–1948 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 understan...

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