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Palestinians in the United Kingdom, commonly called British Palestinians, are people of Palestinian origin born or residing in the United Kingdom.




History


According to Youssef Courbage and Hala Nofal in Palestinians Worldwide: A Demographic Study (2020), Palestinian presence in the United Kingdom predates the Nakba. Dina Matar writes in her 2005 thesis that the well-off and businesspeople arrived as early as the 1930s for education and work reasons.
Still composed mostly of students and professionals, larger waves of Palestinians began migrating to the UK from the 1960s and on, spurred by events such as the Naksa and the Lebanese Civil War (as many Palestinians had previously fled to Lebanon during the Nakba). Since the 1980s, especially after the Second Gulf War, an increasing number of stateless Palestinians have sought asylum in European countries to escape wars and political turmoil in the Middle East.




Demographics


Outlined in Abbas Shiblak's The Palestinian Diaspora in Europe (2005), it was estimated there were 20,000 Palestinians in the UK in 2001, with the number rising after 1991. However, as pointed out by Lina Mahmoud in her essay for the same publication, Ghada Karmi in a 2008 article for This Week Palestine, and Dina Matar in her thesis, the number was impossible to calculate due to a lack of data on British-born Palestinians and Palestinian residents of Britain born in other countries. In 2020, Courbage and Nofal estimated the number was 60,000 in 2017.
From 2004 to 2006 and 2011 to 2012, Stéphanie Loddo (of the EHESS) collected ethnographic data from Palestinians living in Manchester, Oxford, and London and among Palestinian-related organisations. The respondents were both migrants (belonging to various categories – students, professionals, refugees – who arrived at certain intervals in different contexts) and British-born Palestinians. As a result of these migration patterns, the Palestinian community in the UK is diverse in terms of social class, civil and legal status, place of origin, and religious and cultural background.
Loddo, Courbage and Nofal, and Karmi agreed that Palestinians typically find relative success in the UK. Loddo considered the country a "favourable environment" for Palestinians as a "world leader" in higher education, arts, Arab media, and business.




Notable people



Ghassan Abu-Sittah, surgeon – Kuwait-born to Palestinian parents
Nima Abu-Wardeh, journalist – Palestinian heritage
Sarah Agha, actress and presenter – Palestinian father from Delhamiya
Naji al-Ali, artist – born in Al-Shajara
Naim Attallah, businessman and writer
Faris Badwan, musician – Palestinian father
Zaki Chehab, journalist – from Burj el-Shemali refugee camp
Selma Dabbagh, writer – Palestinian father from Jaffa
Saleem Haddad, writer – Palestinian paternal grandmother from Nazareth
Isabella Hammad, novelist – Palestinian paternal heritage from Nablus
Bilal Hasna, actor and playwright – Palestinian father
Mona Hatoum, artist – Lebanon-born to Palestinian parents
Joudie Kalla, chef – Palestinian grandparents
Ghada Karmi, academic – born in Jerusalem
Hanan Kattan, producer – Jordan-born to Palestinian parents from Jerusalem and Bethlehem
Reem Kelani, musician – Palestinian parents from Yabad and Nazareth
Lewis Ludlam, rugby union player – Palestinian paternal heritage
Bashar Lulua, orchestra conductor – Syria-born to a Palestinian mother
Michael Malarkey, actor and musician – Lebanon-born to a British Palestinian mother
Shadia Mansour, rapper – Palestinian parents from Haifa and Nazareth
Tanushka Marah, theatre director and writer – Palestinian-Jordanian heritage
Leanne Mohamad, public speaker and political activist – Palestinian parents
Layla Moran, Liberal Democrats MP – Palestinian mother from Jerusalem
Farah Nabulsi, filmmaker – Palestinian parents
Karma Nabulsi, academic
Nadia El-Nakla, SNP politician – Palestinian father
Rosalind Nashashibi, artist – Palestinian father
Anbara Salam, writer – Palestinian-Lebanese father
Leila Sansour, filmmaker – born in the USSR to a Palestinian father from Bethlehem
Larissa Sansour, artist and filmmaker – born in Jerusalem
Abdul Latif Tibawi, academic – born in Taybet
Azzam Tamimi, academic – born in Hebron
Sami Tamimi, chef and author – born in Jerusalem




Associations



Organisations and collectives concerning British Palestinians specifically include the British Palestinian Committee (BPC), the Association of the Palestinian Community in the UK (APC–UK), the Palestine Community Foundation (PCF), and the Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB). There is also the Scottish Palestinian Society (SPS).
The Mission of Palestine (embassy) in London began operating as a delegation in the 1970s.




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• Genosida Gaza
• Konflik Israel–Palestina
• Palestina
• Hukum kewarganegaraan Israel
• Masjidilaqsa
• Undang-Undang Agraria Utsmaniyah tahun 1858
• Herbert Samuel
• Deklarasi Balfour
• Masa Depan Palestina
• Deir al-Balah
• British Palestinians
• Palestinians
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• Origin of the Palestinians
• Medical Aid for Palestinians
• Palestinian genocide accusation
• Nakba
• Palestinian Jews
• History of the Palestinians
• State of Palestine