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Analysis: Terror attacks focus attention on PA incitement

Posted 19 December, 2018 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians claimed what it is thought to be its youngest victim with the death last week of four-day old Amiad Yisrael Ish-Ran. The baby was born last Sunday by emergency C-section hours after his pregnant mother and father were seriously injured in a shooting attack. Shira Ish-Ran and her husband Amichai…

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LFI vice-chair to introduce bill on incitement in Palestinian schools

Posted 13 December, 2018 in Coexistence, Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
LFI vice-chair Dame Louise Ellman has secured a ten minute rule bill on the 8 January on the topic of incitement in the Palestinian Authority curriculum. Her bill will mandate that UK assistance to the Palestinian Authority education system must comply with international values of peace and tolerance. It will also require an annual review…

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Analysis: Hezbollah’s terror tunnels uncovered

Posted 13 December, 2018 in Analysis, Hezbollah
Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have risen sharply following the discovery of attack tunnels and awarning by the terror chief’s deputy head this weekend that its rockets can now hit the entire country “even Tel Aviv”. Last week, Israel began a major military operation on its northern border in order to expose and destroy Hezbollah tunnels crossing…

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Analysis: Police recommend new bribery charges against Netanyahu

Posted 5 December, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal difficulties deepened further on Saturday with police recommending new bribery charges against him. In potentially the most serious of several cases involving the prime minister – known as “Case 4000” – police have recommended that he face charges of accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust, and fraudulently accepting benefits. In February, police announced that they had recommended…

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Joint LFI, CFI and Israeli Embassy event on Jewish refugees from Arab countries and Iran

Posted 3 December, 2018 in Antisemitism, Iran, Middle East, News
This week, LFI, in partnership with CFI and the Israeli Embassy, hosted a special briefing in parliament to commemorate the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab countries and Iran. Ambassador Mark Regev and Board of Deputies vice-president Edwin Shuker spoke about the 850,000 Jewish refugees who were forced to flee Arab and Muslim countries. LFI…

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LFI chair vows to lead battle against Labour antisemitism

Posted 3 December, 2018 in Antisemitism, Labour Party, News
LFI’s chair Joan Ryan vowed to lead the fight against antisemitism in the Labour party “whatever the personal cost” in her speech to our annual lunch on Tuesday. In a strongly worded address, Ms Ryan also pledged to stand up to “the politics of hatred and division” and defend “the values of equality, respect and tolerance”. Over…

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Ambassador Regev’s Speech to LFI Annual Lunch 2018

Posted 28 November, 2018 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch, 27 November 2018 Remarks by the Ambassador of Israel, HE Mark Regev. Check against delivery. Chief Rabbi, Chair of the Jewish Agency, Isaac Herzog, Deputy Leader, Tom Watson, Chair of LFI, Joan Ryan, Parliamentarians and friends, And a very special thanks to Sir David and Isaac for helping bring us together today. We gather in…

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Joan Ryan speech to LFI Annual Lunch 2018

Posted 27 November, 2018 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  *** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** Rt Hon Joan Ryan MP Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch 2018   Chief Rabbi, Ambassador Regev, friends Thank you to all of you for being here today. In particular, I want to thank Sir David Garrard and Isaac Kaye, our long-standing lunch sponsors. I also want to thank all of my parliamentary colleagues who have joined us; Our chair in…

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Middle East peace must go beyond party politics

Posted 20 November, 2018 in Coexistence, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Joan Ryan MP has written for Jewish News about LFI's campaign in support of the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. You can read the original here. The past year has seen precious little progress for those of us who wish to see peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Last week’s terrible events in Gaza are…

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Analysis: Netanyahu pulls teetering coalition back from the brink – but for how long?

Posted 20 November, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Thirty years ago this month, Yitzhak Shamir eked out a narrow win in Israel’s general election. That election marked the last occasion when an Israeli government has managed to serve out its full term. Coalition crises and prime ministers “cutting and running” in a bid to capitalise on political opportunities to win early re-election have shortened…

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