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Analysis: Abbas speech peddles “antisemitic fictions”

Posted 17 January, 2018 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons In an angry, some believe valedictory, address on Sunday evening, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, delivered a series of broadsides against Israel, rejected the nascent US peace plan and vowed to continue paying salaries to convicted Palestinian terrorists. Abbas’ speech drew sharp criticism from across the Israeli political spectrum, with Labor…

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Analysis: Iranians protest the cost of regime’s foreign wars

Posted 12 January, 2018 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East
  The new year political unrest in Iran is not unprecedented. Three times in the last two decades, the Islamic regime has faced mass protests. In July 1999, students took to the streets to demand freedom of speech, while, 10 years later, the Green Movement saw demonstrations against the vote-rigging which accompanied the re-election of the…

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LFI secures parliamentary debate on Hezbollah proscription

Posted 11 January, 2018 in Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East, News
LFI chair Joan Ryan has secured a cross-party parliamentary debate on the proscription of Hezbollah on Thursday 25 January. LFI has long called for the complete proscription of the terrorist group Hezbollah. Currently, the UK only proscribes Hezbollah’s ‘military wing’, but not its ‘political wing’. The UK’s distinction is not one that Hezbollah itself recognises. Its…

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Analysis: What is the PA teaching Palestinian children?

Posted 21 December, 2017 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Earlier this year, Mahmoud Abbas told President Trump: "We are raising our youth, our children, our grandchildren on a culture of peace." It is not a claim that withstands much scrutiny. The Palestinian Authority which Abbas heads namessummer camps and schools after terrorists, and its official media pumps out a diet of antisemitic incitement, which even features in children’s television…

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Analysis: Gabbay sets out his stall for peace

Posted 14 December, 2017 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Peace process
Avi Gabbay's recent appearance at the Saban Forum – an annual US gathering on Middle East policy – provided his most comprehensive statement on the peace process since becoming leader of the Labor party in July. In his remarks, Gabbay reiterated his support for a two-state solution, said it was time to end the "blame game" between the two sides…

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LFI chair writes to Kate Osamor over BDS statement

Posted 13 December, 2017 in Antisemitism, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Joan Ryan has written to the shadow international development secretary, Kate Osamor, asking her to clarify Tweets she made over the weekend supporting the BDS movement. Below the words "BDS movement # freedom # Justice # Equality", Ms Osamor added a link to the Middle East Institute for Understanding and an explanation of the…

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LFI raises questions over anti-Israel US Embassy protest

Posted 12 December, 2017 in Antisemitism, Incitement, Labour Party, News
LFI has written to Labour MP Andy Slaughter asking him to condemn antisemitic chanting which occurred at a demonstration he attended last week outside the US Embassy. Mr Slaughter was one of a number of speakers at a rally called to protest at President Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Videos of…

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New Palestinian Authority school lessons in hate raise concern over UK aid funding

Posted 12 December, 2017 in Antisemitism, Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
This article originally appeared in the Jewish Chronicle, click here to read it.  The Palestinian Authority school curriculum is teaching children the ‘virtues of martyrdom’ and repeatedly refers to Israel as the ‘Zionist Occupation’, an alarming new report has revealed. The newly updated syllabus, the first since the PA published its 2000 curriculum as part of the…

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Analysis: Jerusalem recognition makes peace harder to achieve

Posted 8 December, 2017 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Donald Trump announced this week that the United States would be formally recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, upending decades of US policy. In a brief White House address, the American president declared that formal recognition was “a recognition of reality” and the “right thing to do”. He was immediately praised by Israeli prime minister…

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LFI Statement on Jerusalem

Posted 6 December, 2017 in Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
An LFI spokesperson said: “LFI’s position is unchanged. Unilateral international moves – such as those by President Trump today – do not advance the peace process. It is important that formal recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is part of a reinvigorated and renewed peace process in pursuit of two states for two peoples, with…

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