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LFI Officers call on Jeremy Corbyn to publicly call for Ken Livingstone’s expulsion

Posted 5 April, 2017 in Antisemitism, Labour Party, News
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 caused huge offence to the Jewish community,…

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Iain McNicol visits Israel with LFI

Posted 4 April, 2017 in Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Iain McNicol, general secretary of the Labour party, travelled to Israel this week with Labour Friends of Israel. The three-day trip included laying a wreath at Yad Vashem; meeting with Israeli Labor MKs Hilik Bar and Michal Biran and the party’s new general secretary, Eran Hermoni; visiting a Jerusalem coexistence project; and a tour of…

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Labour dossier reveals PA’s school terror name shame

Posted 30 March, 2017 in Antisemitism, Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
This article first appeared in the Jewish Chronicle.  Terrorists and Nazi collaborators have been 'honoured' by having schools named after them in the West Bank The government has been urged to step up pressure on the Palestinian Authority over funding pledges after it emerged that more than 20 Palestinian schools receiving cash in the West Bank and…

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Government must publish review into UK funding of Palestinian Authority

Posted 30 March, 2017 in Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
This article first appeared in the Jewish Chronicle.  Labour Friends of Israel chair concerned that British money is going to pay salaries of teachers working at schools named after terrorists On 11 March 1978, Dalal Mughrabi led a group of 11 fellow Palestinian and Lebanese militants ashore on a Tel Aviv beach. After murdering a young American…

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LFI chair Joan Ryan MP speech in Westminster Hall Debate on Iran, Wednesday 22 March 2017

Posted 27 March, 2017 in Antisemitism, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, News
CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY   Whatever its merits, the nuclear deal concluded two years ago this summer has done nothing to satisfy Iran’s appetite to establish regional hegemony in the Middle East. This is unsurprising: one of the great flaws of European and US efforts was a willingness to overlook Iran’s destabilising influence, its support for terrorism and its…

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Analysis: A new port for Gaza?

Posted 16 March, 2017 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Likud transport minister Yisrael Katz voiced his support again last week for a new sea port on the Gaza coast, indicating continuing Israeli concern about the future of the Palestinian enclave. The idea has been proposed in various forms over the past five years, though Katz’ vision is particularly ambitious: a $5bn artificial island three…

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Analysis: Israel Apartheid Week returns to campus

Posted 2 March, 2017 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
This week sees the return of Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) to campuses in the UK. The week long anti-Israel campaign originated in Toronto in 2005 and has since spread to dozens of cities around the world. Campus groups host a series of discussions, exhibitions, film viewings and publicity stunts, aiming to demonise and delegitimise the…

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LFI chair Joan Ryan MP welcomes US bill in support of the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace

Posted 2 March, 2017 in Coexistence, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Joan Ryan has welcomed the introduction of a new bill in the US Congress which raises the prospect of a significant boost to the international campaign to fund coexistence projects in Israel and Palestine. Congressmen Jeff Fortenberry and Joe Crowley introduced the bill in the US House of Representatives to establish American leadership in creating a grant-making…

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