More than 200,000 people are expected to travel to Tel Aviv this weekend to participate in the annual Pride celebrations – the largest such event in the Middle East and Asia. The event symbolises Israel’s strong record on LGBT rights. The new Jewish state inherited Mandate-era laws banning same-sex relationships. While Read more…
The full extent of the Palestinian Authority’s policy of paying “salaries” to terrorists and their families was revealed this week, with the bill said to have exceeded $1bn over the last four years. The figure was revealed by Brig.-Gen (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, a former director general of Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs Read more…
There are few better examples of the yawning gap between Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric and governing reality than his approach towards Israel. After eight years of Barack Obama’s alleged cool indifference, the Israeli right were led to believe they would have a “true friend” in the White House once again: one who would Read more…
Donald Trump’s quixotic attempt to broker what he once he termed the “ultimate deal” – a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians – bore its first tentative signs of success this week when President Mahmoud Abbas indicated he was prepared to begin talks with Benjamin Netanyahu. The Palestinian president’s announcement came Read more…
LFI chair Joan Ryan MP has written to Theresa May, urging the government to ensure that the Palestinian Authority does not pay a salary to the man who murdered British student Hannah Bladon in Jerusalem last month. This practice, enshrined in Palestinian law and first exposed in 2011, has been Read more…
This article originally appeared in the Jewish Chronicle. Theresa May’s government has been urged to seek assurances from Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas that the man who murdered a British student in Jerusalem last week will not now be paid a salary by the PA for his act of terrorism. Read more…
Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti announced last week that he was going on hunger strike, accepting only water and salt. Palestinian officials say Barghouti’s health is “dangerously deteriorating” and that he is refusing Israeli medical treatment and food. This dramatic move has garnered the support of 1,000 of his fellow prisoners Read more…
Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti announced last week that he was going on hunger strike, accepting only water and salt. Palestinian officials say Barghouti’s health is “dangerously deteriorating” and that he is refusing Israeli medical treatment and food. This dramatic move has garnered the support of 1,000 of his fellow prisoners Read more…
Hamas’ attempt to re-write their charter looks no closer to resolution as the militant group remains divided on proposed changes. Reformists within the group are trying to remove a series of anti-semitic clauses and include a provisional acceptance of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. These changes, however, have Read more…
ISIS fired a rocket into southern Israel from northern Sinai this week, striking a greenhouse but causing no major injuries. The terrorist group, which controls a small region of the peninsula near the Gaza strip, immediately claimed responsibility for the low-grade attack. Under the title Wilayet Sinai, ISIS in Egypt Read more…
After weeks of negotiations, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced last week a new framework on settlement construction in the West Bank. Citing the wishes of the new American administration to see settlement building curtailed, Netanyahu announced that any new construction will be limited to within existing settlement boundaries. Where Read more…
LFI’s parliamentary officers have called on Jeremy Corbyn to publicly call for Ken Livingstone’s expulsion. The full letter is below: Dear Jeremy, We are utterly appalled by the decision not to expel Ken Livingstone from the Labour party last night. Mr Livingstone has repeatedly made comments on Nazism that have Read more…