Labour Friends of Israel warmly welcomes the launch of the International Peace Fund, backed by the UK, Australia and Canada, to support grassroots peacebuilding between Israelis and Palestinians and the pledge of £3m in initial funding.
LFI has advocated for Britain to support an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace for the past decade, supporting the work of our friends at the Alliance for Middle East Peace.
As the International Fund for Ireland showed in the years before the Good Friday agreement, peace is built from the ground up. That’s why the new fund will support grassroots projects that build the civic society foundations of a future peace process. These projects create new constituencies for peace, and foster the values of trust, empathy and dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians on which a future two-state solution depends.
