Responding to today’s Westminster Hall Debate on UK military cooperation with Israel, Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard MP spoke about the benefits of the UK-Israel defence relationship. He said: “The UK shares an important, long-standing and broad strategic partnership with the state of Israel. Our defence partnership with Israel aims Read more…
At today’s Westminster Hall Debate on military co-operation with Israel, North Durham MP Luke Akehurst spoke about the many benefits of the UK’s military cooperation with Israel. In his speech, he said: “Recent months have seen dramatic shifts in global geopolitics, and I pay tribute to the Prime Minister for Read more…
LFI vice-chair Damien Egan MP today spoke at the launch of the 7 October Parliamentary Commission Report. The report, published by the UK-Israel APPG, documents the harrowing crimes committed by Hamas and other Iran-backed terror groups against Israelis on 7 October 2023. You can download the report here.
It is tragic and heartbreaking to see the resumption of hostilities in Gaza. Our thoughts are with both the Israeli hostages imprisoned by Hamas and their families, and with innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Over the past two weeks, Hamas has rejected two concrete hostage deal proposals which would have Read more…
At today’s Statement from the Foreign Secretary on the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Conference last week, Mansfield MP Steve Yemm pushed for progress from the Foreign Secretary on UK support for an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. He said: “I thank the Foreign Secretary for his statement. Last week, I hosted Read more…
At today’s Statement from the Foreign Secretary on the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Conference last week, the Foreign Secretary reaffirmed the Government’s position on the need to stop the Iranian regime from acquiring a nuclear weapon, as well as on the treatment of the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza. He said: Read more…
At today’s second reading of the Palestine Statehood (Recognition) Bill in the House of Lords, Foreign Office Minister Baroness Chapman set out the Government’s opposition to unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by the UK. She said: “As many noble Lords have pointed out, Palestinian statehood is the right of Read more…
At today’s second reading of the Palestine Statehood (Recognition) Bill in the House of Lords, Labour peer Lord Katz of Hendon set out why unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood by the UK, as required by the legislation, would not achieve Palestinian statehood or a two-state solution. He said: “As a Read more…
Alex Davies-Jones MP, the Minister for Victims and Violence against Women and Girls, has today condemned the sexual violence against Israelis on October 7 committed by Hamas terrorists and called out women’s groups for failing to condemn it in the aftermath. She made the comments during a Jewish Women’s Aid Read more…
Today, a number of Labour MPs attended a Westminster Hall Debate on the potential merits of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace secured by Mansfield MP Steve Yemm. In his opening remarks, Steve Yemm said: “It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. One of the most violent Read more…
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. However much the Trump administration shakes the global kaleidoscope, the principal threat facing this country and our allies in Europe and the Middle East remains the same: the Moscow-Tehran axis which promotes violence Read more…
Lord Cryer, formerly MP for Leyton and Wanstead between 1997-2024, has today continued his longstanding campaign to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation in the House of Lords. He asked Home Office Minister Lord Hanson: “My Lords, I want to press my noble friend the Read more…