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Analysis: After the EHRC: Labour must tackle anti-Zionist antisemitism

Posted 3 November, 2020 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party
Sir Keir Starmer. Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Keir Starmer’s response to last week’s report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission represents an important and major step forward in the challenge of rooting out the scourge of antisemitism from the Labour party. The findings of the EHRC’s investigation were both clear and…

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In Brief: Mystery surrounds death of top Fatah militant as Abbas orders crackdown

Posted 3 November, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Mahmoud Abbas, Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Mystery surrounds the death of a top commander of the armed wing of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party who was killed on Saturday. Hatem Abu Rizek, a leading figure in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, died at the Balata refugee camp, near the West Bank city of…

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In Brief: Gantz’s Blue and White party weighs leaving Netanyahu coalition

Posted 3 November, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Benny Gantz. Photo: ראובן קפוצ'ינסקי, CC BY-SA 3.0  via Wikimedia Commons Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party are reportedly considering leaving Israel’s coalition government, a move that would trigger new elections. The centrist party came to an agreement with Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this year after three inconclusive general elections in which it fought Likud to a…

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In Brief: Jerusalem court rules PA must pay family of victims of 2002 terror attack

Posted 3 November, 2020 in Analysis, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Tzipi and Gadi Shemesh. Photo: Courtesy of family The Palestinian Authority has been ordered by Jerusalem’s District Court to pay nearly £3m to the family of a couple who died in a 2002 terror attack. Tzipi and Gadi Shemesh (pictured) and their unborn twins were murdered in central Jerusalem’s King George Street in March 2002 when…

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Analysis: From “No, No, No” to “Yes”; Sudan is latest state to normalise relations with Israel

Posted 27 October, 2020 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
  Sudan has become the latest Arab nation to seek to normalise its relationship with Israel. The agreement was announced during a call between Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump and Sudan’s Sovereign Council president, General Abdel Fattah al- Burhan, and prime minister Abdalla Hamdok. The announcement – which follows the signing last month of the Abraham Accords that…

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In Brief: Peers welcome normalisation deal in call with UAE ambassador

Posted 27 October, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
  Photo: Wikiemirati, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A cross-party group of members of the House of Lords welcomed the UAE’s normalisation agreement during a video call with the country’s ambassador to London last week. “We believe this is an exciting time for the UAE, Israel and the region,” Ambassador Mansoor Abulhoul  told two dozen members…

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In Brief: Hamas court convicts peace activists over Zoom call with Israelis

Posted 27 October, 2020 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
 Photo: Orthuberra, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons A military court in Gaza this week convicted three Palestinian peace activists for holding a video call with Israelis in April. Rami Aman, the head of the Gaza Youth Committee, was sentenced to a year in prison after being found guilty of “weakening revolutionary spirit”. However, the court…

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In Brief: Israel continues to unlock as virus rate falls to lowest level since June

Posted 27 October, 2020 in Analysis, Israel
Photo: Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Israel is to reopen some of its schools, as well as some businesses, such as hairdressers, that receive customers as the country continues to ease its covid-19 restrictions. Facing a surge in coronavirus cases, the Jewish state last month became the first country in…

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Analysis: Israel’s lockdown begins to lift as Bibi’s popularity sinks

Posted 20 October, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israel this week began lifting its nationwide coronavirus lockdown. Widely praised for its swift and tough action against the pandemic in the spring, the country last month became the first in the world to order a second shutdown after a sharp rise in cases. But the Jewish state is…

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In Brief: LFI chair writes to Raab as Iran welcomes lifting of arms embargo

Posted 20 October, 2020 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Steve McCabe. Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Iran has welcomed the lifting on Sunday of the 13-year arms embargo, labelling it as a “momentous day”. In a letter last week to the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, LFI chair Steve McCabe expressed his disappointment that it has “not been possible to secure international consensus…

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