On 1 December the UK abstained on an annual UN General Assembly Resolution on Jerusalem. Hitherto the British position had always been in favour.  The following group of cross party politicians have signed this statement expressing their concern for what this means for UK's position on future of the city, its holy places and any future peace process.

British Parliamentarians criticise UK abstention on Jerusalem at the UN

1 December 2021

Caabu Letter in the Financial Times about dangers of Israeli spyware, 29 November 2021

Caabu invites you to an online briefing on climate change in the Middle East after COP26 with Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House's Environment and Society Programme, Glada Lahn, economist and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Dr Manal Shehabi, and climate advocate and founder of SustainMENA, Shada El-Sharif, on Thursday 16 December 2021 at 2:30pm (GMT UK time).

Chris Doyle interviewed on Al Jazeera English about the UK government plan to proscribe Hamas, 19 November 2021

In an interview with Al Jazeera English, Caabu Director Chris Doyle argues that the move will have little impact given that the government had already a no-contact policy with Hamas and its military wing had been proscribed since 2001. 

Numerous European parliamentarians (including in the UK) who form part of the European Parliamentarians for Israeli-Palestinian Equality, a network of those from various European parliaments of 17 countries and the European Parliament which meets regularly and cares passionately about advancing equality, justice and rights for Israelis and Palestinians, have written to their respective Foreign Ministers (including to UK Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss) and the European Union's High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borell. 

Caabu invites you to an online book launch with multi-award winning journalist and author Janine di Giovanni, who will be discussing her new book, The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East on the plight of Christians a

UNRWA needs proper funding so it can focus on its work -  Article by Chris Doyle in Arab News, 8 November 2021

The Britain-Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group hosted an online briefing on Monday 8 November which discussed the attacks on Palestinian civil society - hearing from three of the six Palestinian civil society organisations designated by Israel on 22 October. Also on the call were representatives from other international and UK human rights organisations who have worked with the organisations concerned.

Forcing Syrian refugees to return home is no solution - Article by Chris Doyle in Arab News, 25 October 2021

16 UK-based humanitarian, development, human rights and faith organisations working to support the rights and welfare of the Palestinian people condemn the Israeli Government’s shocking decision to declare six Palestinian civil society groups as ‘terrorist organisations’. We call on the International Community to publicly reject this move to obstruct the essential work of these organisations, and to continue supporting them.