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Antisemitism

Analysis: Corbyn’s Hamas links under scrutiny

Jeremy Corbyn’s past links with Hamas have come under intense scrutiny this week, as the fallout from Labour’s failure to adopt the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-semitism continues. On Monday, it was revealed that the Labour leader had chaired a panel at a conference in Doha in Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 7 years22 August, 2018 ago

LFI leads calls for Corbyn to apologise over Munich terror ceremony

LFI chair Joan Ryan wrote this week to Jeremy Corbyn asking him to explain his apparent decision to honour the terrorists behind the Munich massacre during a 2014 visit to Tunisia. Ms Ryan also called upon the Labour leader to apologise to the bereaved families of the 11 Israeli athletes who were Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 7 years15 August, 2018 ago

Joan Ryan writes to Jeremy Corbyn re: Munich massacre

LFI chair Joan Ryan MP has written to Jeremy Corbyn MP regarding the images in this weekend’s newspapers which appear to show Mr Corbyn taking part in a ceremony in Tunisia in 2014 honouring Black September terrorists who were responsible for the 1972 Munich massacre. Ms Ryan calls for Mr Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 7 years13 August, 2018 ago

Analysis: Fresh wave of antisemitic and anti-Zionist incidents rock Labour

Following Labour’s decision not to adopt the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism last month, a further wave of reports concerning antisemitic and anti-Zionist incidents in Labour have rocked the party. In response to Mr Corbyn’s role in many of these incidents, Labour Friends of Israel chair Joan Ryan has Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 7 years6 August, 2018 ago

Joan Ryan writes to Jennie Formby over Corbyn comments

LFI chair Joan Ryan MP has written to Labour’s general secretary, Jennie Formby, to request that the party launches an investigation into comments made by Jeremy Corbyn MP on PressTV in 2012. Click here to read the full letter.  

By lfiIsrael, 7 years5 August, 2018 ago

Analysis: Labour rejects IHRA definition of antisemitism

  The Labour party’s ruling body, the National Executive Committee, yesterday decided to adopt a controversial new definition of antisemitism. It did so in the face of near-universal condemnation from the Jewish community and overwhelming opposition from Labour MPs. Labour’s new code of conduct – which will be used to Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 7 years20 July, 2018 ago

Joan Ryan writes to Sajid Javid over Al Quds Day

LFI chair Rt Hon Joan Ryan MP has written to the Home Secretary regarding this weekend’s Al Quds Day march. You can see the letter here. Rt Hon Joan Ryan MP, Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, said: “I am appalled that the government should once again have allowed this Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 7 years11 June, 2018 ago

Analysis: Will Hezbollah flags fly in London this weekend?

This weekend’s Al-Quds Day parade may once again see the flags of Hezbollah, an antisemitic terror group, flying in the streets of central London. Initiated by Ayatollah Khomeni in 1979, Al Quds Day is now marked internationally, normally at the end of Ramadan. Its intent – to destroy the state Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 7 years6 June, 2018 ago

Metropolitan police confirm to LFI vice-chair Hezbollah flags can be flown on Al-Quds day due to government policy

In a letter to Louise Ellman MP, vice-chair of LFI, Commander Jane Connors of the Metropolitan police confirmed that the Hezbollah flag can be flown at this year’s Al-Quds day protest in London as the terror group’s “political wing” is not proscribed by parliament. The letter makes clear that it Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 7 years30 May, 2018 ago

Analysis: Abbas’ antisemitism pervades the PA

  Mahmoud Abbas claimed on Monday that the behaviour of Jews was responsible for the Holocaust – the latest example of the antisemitism regularly perpetrated by the president and the Palestinian Authority. Addressing the Palestinian National Council in Ramallah, Abbas said Hitler’s murder of six million Jews was not caused by antisemitism Read more…

By lfiIsrael, 7 years3 May, 2018 ago

Joan Ryan Urges Boris Johnson to Condemn Abbas Speech

LFI chair Joan Ryan MP has written to the Foreign Secretary urging him to condemn Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s antisemitic speech to the Palestinian National Council on Monday.   Please click here to read the full letter.

By lfiIsrael, 7 years2 May, 2018 ago

Louise Ellman urges action on Al Quds Day demonstration

LFI vice-chair Louise Ellman MP has written to the home secretary, Sajid Javid MP, and Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick, regarding the upcoming Al Quds Day demonstration. You can read her letters here.

By lfiIsrael, 7 years2 May, 2018 ago

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