Our briefing today calls for parliamentarians to respond urgently to Israel's chilling plans for escalation - and to uphold Britain's basic legal, historic & moral obligations to the Palestinian people.

Read it here: britpalcommittee.co.uk/nakba77briefing

"Ongoing Nakba: Palestinian Reflections" will explore the continuing impact of the Nakba on Palestinian lives today through short reflections, testimonies & spoken word poetry.

🗓 Monday 12th May
🕕 6–7pm BST
📍 Online – Streaming on YouTube
📺 @BritishPalestinianCommittee

This alarming & unprecedented move underscores the importance of long-overdue action to hold Israel accountable for its crimes. Govt officials have been rightly quick to condemn the move - what substantive action will they now take to put an end to Israeli atrocities?

🇵🇸 Take action NOW and email your MP to stop the genocide. Demand an end to Israel’s actions and Britain’s active complicity.

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You can read more on initiatives like this, and the dangers of normalisation, in our Policy Briefing from 2023 on the matter: static1.squarespace.com/static/611a6... 12/12

As we enter a moment that looks set to shape the future of Palestine & the region, there is only one path that will lead to a just peace. It must begin with an immediate halt to any plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their lands, & the int’l community holding Israel accountable 11/12

Israel is on trial for genocide at the International Court of Justice, human rights abuses are proliferating, & brazen threats of further annexation and displacement are becoming even more commonplace, priority for financial & political assistance should be based on clear and articulated needs.10/12

In the aftermath of Israel's most devastating attack on Gaza, while soldiers & settlers continue to attack & displace families across Palestine, & leaders continue with genocidal calls - the resurgence of progs calling for Palestinians to engage in 'peace-building' is particularly distasteful 9/12

Cuts in foreign aid & diversion of support away from essential services to fund P2P projects will have a devastating impact on Palestinians’ access to healthcare, education, & other critical needs. In particular UNRWA, which serves over 5 million refugees, faces an existential funding crisis 8/12

The mainstream of Palestinian civil society remains opposed to all forms of normalisation, including P2P projects that do not recognise the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people & are not premised on opposing the occupation, discrimination & oppression to which Palestinians are subjected 7/12

There is currently no constituency of Palestinian civil society supporting an “international fund for peace” or further P2P projects – a reality that any attempt at a meaningful consultation with Palestinians would show. 6/12

Experts who observed the “International Fund” in the US have raised concerns that it makes way for investments in illegal settlement infrastructure to support “co-existence”. Eg, Israeli factories in the occupied West Bank, employing Palestinians, have presented themselves as “peace projects” 5/12

These programmes are not new and have been shown not to work. A 2021 study commissioned by the UK’s own Department for International Development on the value for money of P2P programmes in Israel/Palestine found insufficient evidence of positive impact. 4/12

In presenting Israel’s occupation & dispossession of the Palestinian people as ‘ethnic conflict’, ignoring asymmetries of power, this & similar programmes divert from & delegitimise in’tl law - while normalising occupation and structural violence against Palestinians at the civil society level. 3/12

P2P programmes perpetuate the myth of false equivalence between occupying power and occupied people. They fail to address the decades long occupation & apartheid in Palestine, thereby normalising the ongoing denial of Palestinian rights 2/12