How the British Museum’s partnership with BP has shown the world its allegiance to imperialism at any cost

Wherever imperialism strikes, energy company British Petroleum is often close by.

On 30th October, a few weeks into Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, BP was one of the six companies which accepted a gas exploration licence from the Zionist entity – making them complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people through their business dealings with Israel.

Last Sunday, we returned to the British Museum in protest of its new 10-year, £50 million partnership with BP, whose normalisation of relations with the settler colonial regime clearly displays their willingness to enable colonial looting and extraction of Palestinian natural resources.

How the British Museum’s partnership with BP has shown the world its allegiance to imperialism at any cost

By Energy Embargo for Palestine