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Chief Rabbi, Ambassador Hotovely, friends.
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch.
And a warm welcome to our friends from the Abraham Accords countries.
LFI’s work is …
David Lammy today used the LFI annual lunch to underline Labour’s commitment to Israel and set out a series of measures the party would take in government to support a renewed drive to kick-start the Middle East peace process.
The …
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original.
The fury and rage of the anti-Israel protesters who took to the streets of London again this weekend should not be …
Today, LFI and the Jewish Labour Movement wrote to all Labour councillors setting our our support for Keir Starmer and Labour’s position on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, with a need for humanitarian pauses and to prioritise community …
Labour leader Keir Starmer has today set out Labour’s support for humanitarian pauses in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, explaining in a speech at Chatham House that a ceasefire would leave Hamas with the capability to …
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LFI vice-chair Dame Diana Johnson MP has written the below article for TheHouse. Click here to read the original.
They murdered and kidnapped Holocaust survivors, massacred babies and gunned down young people as they danced at a music festival.
It …
Speaking for the Labour frontbench in today’s report stage debate of the Economic Activity of Public Bodies Bill, Labour’s deputy leader and shadow secretary of state for levelling up, Angela Rayner, reiterated that “Labour is opposed to a policy of …
LFI’s chair in the House of Lords, Baroness Ramsay, said with regard to the BBC’s reporting of the the conflict between Israel and Hamas: “Saying that Hamas is designated a terrorist organisation was a weasel-worded way of getting out …
Following the ugly scenes of extremism in London, LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written to Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
In 2021, the government was warned about the “gaping chasm in the law that allows hateful extremists to operate with …
At today’s statement from the prime minister on the situation in Israel and Gaza, a number of LFI parliamentarians pushed the government for measures to counter extremism and antisemitism domestically following Hamas’s terror attacks on Israel.
LFI chair Steve McCabe …
At today’s Education Questions session in the House of Commons, LFI parliamentary supporter Andrew Gwynne raised the recent increase in instances of antisemitic and Islamophobic abuse in schools, following the outbreak of conflict between Israel and Hamas.
He asked: “In …