Last weekend, Hamas launched a terrorist attack deliberately targeting Israeli civilians. Over 1,400 people were murdered: babies massacred, Holocaust survivors shot dead and entire families tortured and killed. Hamas seized 200 Israeli hostages, including women, children and people with disabilities. The terror attacks represent the deadliest day for the Jewish Read more…
Israel is preparing to initiate a “significant ground operation” to strike Hamas in Gaza “from air, sea and land” following last week’s terror attacks. Latest developments Latest figures suggest that at least 1,400 Israelis were killed in the Hamas terror attacks and rocket fire from Gaza, with 4,121 injured and around 200 Read more…
Following the Prime Minister’s statement to the House of Commons following Hamas’s attack against Israel and the ongoing situation in Israel and Gaza, a number of LFI parliamentarians asked a series of questions to the Prime Minister in the debate to raise issues relating to the conflict. On the around Read more…
At today’s statement from the prime minister on Hamas’s attacks on Israel and the ongoing situation in Gaza, Labour leader Keir Starmer made clear that “Labour stands with Israel”, summarising the party’s wish to “send a strong message that Westminster is united, and Britain is united: with Israel, against terror, Read more…
At today’s statement on the situation in Israel and Gaza, Labour’s leader in the House of Lords and LFI parliamentary supporter Baroness Smith of Basildon, reaffirmed Labour’s “total condemnation of Hamas’s appalling and ongoing attacks on Israel”. Her full comments were as follows: “My Lords, I thank the Lord Privy Read more…
London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Anne Clarke has written the below article for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. The events of last weekend in Israel have sickened the world, with shockwaves reverberating across the UK’s Jewish community. Hamas slaughtered entire families and took hostage elderly people Read more…
LFI parliamentary supporter Margaret Hodge MP has written the below article for the Guardian. Click here to read the original. Kishinev. Babi Yar. Munich. The sites of Jewish massacres throughout history. Now there is another place that will for ever be associated with the slaughter of innocent Jews: Kfar Aza. Kibbutz Read more…
Labour politicians attended vigils in cities across the UK yesterday and today, as people come together to mourn those killed by Hamas’s attacks against Israel. In Manchester, metro mayor Andy Burnham and council leader Bev Craig addressed the vigil, with Burnham warning that any rise in antisemitic hate in Greater Read more…
Labour leader Keir Starmer received two standing ovations after stressing the party’s support for Jews and for Israel in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Starmer said that he was “shocked and appalled by the events in Israel”. He went on to “utterly condemn the senseless Read more…
Keir Starmer strongly backed Israel and condemned Hamas at LFI’s reception on Tuesday evening, at which some 1,000 people turned out to show support for the Jewish state. The Labour leader addressed LFI supporters during a vigil for the victims of the terrorist attacks, during which there was a memorial Read more…
Angela Rayner led a moment’s silence at Labour party conference in Liverpool today, in memory of those killed in Hamas’s terror attacks against Israel. She said that “I know you will all be appalled by the shocking situation and events in Israel where over one thousand people including 10 British Read more…
Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy rushed back to London from Labour party conference in Liverpool on Monday to attend a vigil in central London as thousands of people gathered at Downing Street to show their support for Israel. Lammy, told attendees: “I stand amongst you deeply understanding the trauma amongst Read more…