Caabu

16/04/2026

Caabu's Education Officer, Lily Wood, on Caabu's unique schools programme.

Find out more about our education programme here: https://www.caabu.org/education

The Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu) runs an active and exciting education programme, providing lively, expert speakers to address knowledge gaps about the Arab world at British schools and universities. We offer talks and workshops free of charge to schools throughout the UK. Caabu provides students with the opportunity to hear an informed perspective that encourages debate and a questioning approach, particularly crucial during a time of media prevalence regarding the Middle East.

07/04/2026

This Wednesday at 6pm (UK time BST), join us at Caabu for this online briefing on the ongoing wars in the Middle East with
Negin Shiraghaei, Dr HA Hellyer and Yezid Sayigh.

More details and registration here:
https://caabu.org/events/caabu/caabu-briefing-ongoing-wars-middle-east

02/04/2026

Join us at Caabu for this online briefing on the ongoing wars in the Middle East on Wednesday 8 April at 6pm (BST UK time) with Negin Shiraghaei, an Iranian-British feminist, political activist and a former BBC Persian TV news anchor, Dr HA Hellyer an internationally recognised expert on security and international affairs, in the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia, and and Yezid Sayigh, a senior fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.

More details and registration here: https://caabu.org/events/caabu/caabu-briefing-ongoing-wars-middle-east

Join us for this important discussion where our speakers will discuss the ongoing wars across the Middle East and what this means for the region and beyond, including the U.S and Israel's bombing of Iran and Iran's strikes on Israel, the Gulf and U.S targets, the ongoing genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank, as well as Israel's attacks on and invasion of Lebanon which has now forcibly displaced over 1 million people (more can be read about that here), and what governments such as the UK could and should be doing.

31/03/2026

Britain-Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group Co-Chairs Andy McDonald MP and Debbie Abrahams MP demand further sanctions on Israel for death penalty law.

https://caabu.org/news/news/britain-palestine-appg-co-chairs-demand-further-sanctions-israel-death-penalty-law

In their letter to the Prime Minister Rt Hon. Sir Keir Starmer, they call on the UK Government to sanction those responsible for Israel's death penalty law, that will make hanging the default punishment for Palestinians, and suspend the UK's trade agreement with Israel. In the letter, they echo the widespread condemnation of repeated Israeli breaches of international law from the international human rights community, "pointing to this as further evidence of the potential crime of apartheid by the Israeli state, as Palestinians in the occupied state are specifically singled out under this legislation."

31/03/2026

On 23 March 2026, we hosted an Eid Reception in parliament, alongside our partner, Action For Humanity - International.

Grateful for contributions from the Palestinian Ambassador, Husam Zomlot, Chris Doyle, Othman Moqbel , Baroness Julie Elliott, and for our host and Chair, Alistair Carmichael MP - Orkney and Shetland.

You can watch a video of the Eid reception here: https://caabu.org/news/news/caabu-action-humanity-eid-reception-parliament

Please do continue to support our work: https://caabu.org/get-involved/donate

Caabu and Action for Humanity Eid reception in ParliamentOn 23 March 2026, we hosted an Eid Reception in parliament, alongside our partner, Action for Humanity.We were delighted to welcome guests and MPs, particularly those who have led on Palestine advocacy in parliament.

26/03/2026

Please write to your MPs on Lebanon. Please watch this from Caabu's Head of Parliamentary Affairs Joseph Willits encouraging you to do so. See this for more information: https://caabu.org/news/news/write-your-mps-lebanon

Over 1 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes in Lebanon by Israel, 20% of Lebanon’s population. The Gaza playbook used throughout its genocide against Palestinians is becoming ever more apparent in Lebanon.

Post also here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWUJgkaDEZq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

20/03/2026

Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating around the world.

Today, we are especially mindful that many people are marking Eid under continued hardship and suffering.

We wish you a time filled with joy and generosity. Thank you to all those who contributed to our Ramadan Appeal.

Eid is a moment to reconnect, to give, and to strengthen the bonds that bring people together.


Eid Mubarak 🌙

19/03/2026

This letter calling for further sanctions on Israel and a total ban on all trade and interaction with illegal Israeli settlements has now been signed by 125 UK Parliamentarians.

If your MP hasn't added their name, please do ask them to do so!

https://caabu.org/news/news/119-uk-mps-call-further-sanctions-israel-and-total-ban-all-trade-and-interaction-illegal

10/03/2026

“Caabu is needed more than ever”

At our 7 March Iftar with Action For Humanity - International in Manchester, Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, reflected on his engagement with Caabu, including our delegation to Palestine he joined in 2012, and why, especially in our current political climate, Caabu’s work remains so important.

Mayor of Greater Manchester

04/03/2026

119 UK MPs call for further sanctions on Israel and a total ban on all trade and interaction with illegal Israeli settlements

https://caabu.org/news/news/119-uk-mps-call-further-sanctions-israel-and-total-ban-all-trade-and-interaction-illegal

Writing to the Foreign Secretary, they call on the UK government to impose a complete and total ban on all trade and interaction with Israeli settlements and the occupation itself, further sanctions against illegal Israeli settlers and settler groups, and for the UK government to publish, as it has promised, its formal response to the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on the unlawfulness of the occupation.

Commenting on this, Caabu's Head of Parliamentary Affairs, Joseph Willits, said:

"The ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank continues at pace, if anything, intensifying as Israel carries out its bombing of Iran and Lebanon, and continues its genocide in Gaza, in the hope that its total erasure of Palestinian communities will go unnoticed. Or that settler violence will be deemed something minor and trivial. The UK Government has recently promised "concrete steps", but what are they? Palestinians and others, including Parliamentarians in the UK, have been waiting for decades to see what action will be taken. As ever, successive UK governments can never say they didn't know about Israel's war on such communities and the attempts to destroy them."

If your MP has not signed this letter, please do send this to them, encouraging them to do so. You can find your MP here: https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP

26/02/2026

Your Ramadan donation helps maintain direct pressure on MPs and ministers, so that we can continue to push the UK government to start to hold Israel accountable for the ongoing genocide and its regime of apartheid against Palestinians.

Please consider a donation https://caabu.org/news/news/ramadan-appeal-2026

17/02/2026

Peter Oborne speaking to Caabu about his book: Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza

Watch the online book launch in full here:

Leading author and journalist, Peter Oborne, spoke at an important discussion, an online book launch for his book, Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza on 16 February 2026, looking at the question of Britain's complicity with Israel's destruction of Gaza.