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LFI MPs: The existence of Israel is the strongest affirmation of Never Again

Posted 5 May, 2022 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe MP and parliamentary supporter Christian Wakeford MP have written the below article for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Steve and Christian at the wall of the Krakow Ghetto. Standing in the former synagogue in the rural Polish town of Dabrowa Tarnowska, it is difficult to imagine that…

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In Brief: Israel’s outrage over Russian Holocaust propaganda

Posted 4 May, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel, Israeli Politics
Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin > Presidential Executive Office, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Russia’s foreign ministry this week accused Israel of supporting the “neo-Nazi regime” in Ukraine in the wake of Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s incendiary remarks on the Holocaust. In a statement on Tuesday, Russia accused Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid of making…

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Israeli Labor staffers visit UK sister party

Posted 29 April, 2022 in Antisemitism, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News
The UK Labour Party has this week hosted nine staffers from the Israeli Labor Party, including deputy mayor of Tel Aviv Chen Arieli and Havoda chief executive Nir Rosen. The group met with Labour leader Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner, were hosted for dinner by Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting, and also met with…

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LFI MPs push FCDO to support peacebuilding fund

Posted 26 April, 2022 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
At FCDO Orals today, LFI parliamentary supporters Wayne David MP and Mary Glindon MP both challenged the Foreign Secretary on the government's lack of action to ensure a place for the UK on the board of the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. Both Wayne and Mary expressed their frustration at the UK's lack of progress while…

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Israel is not an apartheid state, says Keir Starmer

Posted 7 April, 2022 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
Labour leader Keir Starmer has made clear that Labour does not believe that Israel is an apartheid state, in an interview with Jewish Chronicle editor Jake Wallis Simons. When asked whether he agreed with an Amnesty UK report, published earlier this year, which smeared Israel as an apartheid state, Starmer replied decisively: "No. I’ve been very…

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In Brief: EU committee criticises Palestinian Authority for antisemitic textbooks

Posted 5 April, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Image: IMPACT-se The European Parliament’s budgetary control committee has passed a motion condemning the Palestinian Authority for printing new school textbooks containing violent and hateful anti-Israel material using European funding. The EU funds the salaries of the Palestinian Authority-employed civil servants who write and produce the textbooks. The motion effectively freezes EU funding to the PA while deliberations…

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LFI parliamentarians speak at ZF 2022 Annual Lobby Day for Israel

Posted 9 March, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Christian Wakeford MP LFI chair Steve McCabe MP LFI vice-chair John Spellar MP Today, a number of LFI officers and parliamentarians addressed the Zionist Federation's annual lobby day for Israel, held in Parliament. This year's lobby day focused on the proscription of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist group that has already been proscribed by…

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In Brief: Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps launches second satellite

Posted 9 March, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East
IRGC Parade in Tehran > YPA, CC-BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), a state-backed paramilitary group that is considered a terrorist group by the United States, has launched a second satellite into space. State television broadcast the launch in the Shahroud desert, following the return of Iran’s top diplomat from months of…

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In Brief: EU aid to the PA held up as officials discuss textbook reform

Posted 1 March, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Source: IMPACT-se. Millions of euros of EU aid to the Palestinian Authority are stuck in Brussels as the European Commission discussed whether to condition parts of the assistance on Palestinian school curriculum reform. The EU, the PA’s single largest donor, helps to pay the salaries of many PA civil servants. Between 2008 and 2020, Brussels spent around…

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