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Britain Palestine Project
- Membership number 10516
- Charity registered in Scotland SC047090
Britain Palestine Project (BPP) works to advance a just, lawful and sustainable peace between Palestinians and Israelis. Our work is grounded in international law, historical responsibility, and the principle that peace must be built on equality, parity of esteem, human rights and accountability rather than force or indefinite domination. BPP’s distinctive contribution lies in addressing Britain’s unique historical and contemporary role in Palestine. From the legacy of the Mandate period to the UK’s current responsibilities as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and a key diplomatic actor, Britain continues to help shape the political, legal and humanitarian conditions on the ground. BPP exists to ensure that these responsibilities are better understood, publicly debated, and reflected in UK policy.
We work across three interconnected strands: public education, policy engagement, and accountability grounded in international law.
First, BPP undertakes public education to deepen understanding of the history, law and lived realities of Israel-Palestine. This includes producing research, films, briefings, public events and digital content that challenge misinformation, simplify complex legal and historical issues without distorting them, and centre Palestinian and Israeli voices committed to equality and justice. A core aim of this work is to widen the space for informed, evidence-based discussion in a highly polarised public environment.
Second, BPP engages directly with policymakers and political institutions in the UK and internationally. We provide analysis, convene dialogues, and support parliamentarians, officials and civil society actors in the nations and regions of the UK to examine how international law applies in practice to issues such as occupation, annexation, humanitarian access, arms transfers, sanctions, recognition, and post-conflict reconstruction. Our approach is non-partisan but not neutral: we are guided by legal obligations, not political convenience. We seek to shift policy debates from abstract commitments to peace towards concrete questions of compliance, responsibility and enforcement. Third, BPP places accountability at the centre of any credible pathway to peace. We work to clarify the legal frameworks governing the conflict — including international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and the law on state responsibility — and to assess the implications of international judicial processes, including those of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. We believe that accountability is not an obstacle to peace but a precondition for it, and that durable political solutions cannot be built on impunity or selective application of the law.
Across all our work, BPP emphasises Palestinian agency and inclusive legitimacy. We reject approaches that treat Palestinians solely as humanitarian subjects or security problems, and we critically examine initiatives that promise “stability” or “reconstruction” while deferring or diluting core rights. Our guiding principle is what we describe as parity of esteem: the insistence that peace requires equal application of law, equal political rights, and equal human dignity. By combining rigorous research, credible policy engagement and public-facing education, Britain Palestine Project seeks to contribute to a future in which UK policy supports—not undermines—a just and lasting peace in Israel-Palestine.
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