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Labour MPs welcome Knesset Speaker to Parliament

Posted 21 September, 2022 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
Reception for Speaker Levy hosted by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle A number of Labour MPs have this week joined colleagues from across Parliament to welcome Knesset speaker Michael Levy to London. On Wednesday, Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle hosted a reception for the his Israeli counterpart, which saw the two Speakers speak about the UK and Israel…

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Labour MPs attend Munich Olympics memorial ceremony

Posted 5 September, 2022 in Antisemitism, Incitement, Israel, Labour Party, News
UK Parliamentarians have today taken part in a memorial service to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Massacre, when eight Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 Israelis and one West German police officer at the Olympics. An outdoor service took place at the Palace of Westminster, led by Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle. Also in attendance…

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Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy visits Israel with LFI

Posted 29 July, 2022 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
David Lammy laying a wreath on behalf of the Labour Party at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy was joined by LFI director Michael Rubin on a visit to Israel last week, as part of a three-day fact-finding mission in which he also visited Jordan and the Palestinian Territories. During the visit, David visited…

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LFI hosts conversation between UK and Israeli Young Labour activists

Posted 20 July, 2022 in Antisemitism, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News
LFI was delighted to today host a conversation between Young Labour activists and their counterparts in our sister Israeli Labor party, Noar Havoda. The activists, aged between 14-20, discussed the many shared issues facing young people in the UK and Israel, including mental health provision and extending LGBT+ rights. The virtual discussion follows on from a delegation…

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In Brief: Starmer commits to “new effort” to tackle antisemitic hate

Posted 19 July, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Labour Party
Keir Starmer > UK Parliament, CC BY 3.0 Labour leader Keir Starmer has pledged that a future Labour government would work directly with the Community Security Trust (CST) in a concerted effort to “break the levels” of violent threats, antisemitism and hate crime in the UK. Speaking during his visit to Berlin last week, where he met…

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Young Labour activist Kira Lewis: Labour cannot drift back into equivocating on Israel’s existence

Posted 17 July, 2022 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Young Labour activist Kira Lewis has written the below article for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. Joining last month’s delegation of Young Labour activists, which allowed me to see all of Israel and travel into the West Bank, has reaffirmed my understanding of the complexity of the tragic conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. The…

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Steps to a two state solution: End incitement in the Palestinian school curriculum

Posted 11 July, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Twenty Six: End incitement in the Palestinian school curriculum In 2017, the Palestinian Authority introduced a new school curriculum which teaches the virtues of martyrdom, describes terrorists as “heroes” and repeats antisemitic tropes. The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se)…

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In Brief: Biden administration leads criticism of unbalanced UN report

Posted 15 June, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
White House, public domain via Wikimedia Commons The Biden administration has joined 20 other countries in issuing a harsh rebuke on Monday to the UN Human Rights Council after a Commission of Inquiry formed to probe Israel released a report last week condemning the Jewish state. The report blamed Israel’s “persistent discrimination against Palestinians” for the 11-day…

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In Brief: Hamas threatens Israel after Jerusalem Day march

Posted 31 May, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories
Jerusalem Day march > Utilisateur:Djampa, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The terror group Hamas, which has governed the Gaza Strip since 2007, warned on Sunday that it could still respond to the weekend’s Jerusalem Day flag march “at the right time”. Last year, Hamas fired a number of rockets at Jerusalem during the annual parade, sparking an…

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LFI chair writes to Foreign Secretary on Iraqi anti-Israel legislation

Posted 24 May, 2022 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, News
Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has today called on Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to demand Iraq scrap legislation that would impose the death penalty for "contact and communication of any kind" with Israel and Israelis. Instead, he called for the Foreign Secretary to use the UK's "deep and…

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