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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 …
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Thank yous
Thank you,
Chief Rabbi, Ambassador, friends… some of you old friends.
Sir David Garrard for the wonderful introduction.
Isaac Kaye.
Adrian Cohen.
Steve McCabe for your advice and support.
Tom Murray, Thomas Webster, …
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 …
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 …
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for Progressive Britain Click here to read the original.
If Labour wins the next general election, the political and economic landscape of the Middle East will look rather different than …
Israel and Saudi Arabia are moving towards a historic US-brokered deal to normalise diplomatic ties, the White House said on Friday.
US President Joe Biden hopes to score an election-year diplomatic victory by securing recognition of the Jewish state by …
Ahead of Labour’s annual conference next week, LFI has released its latest policy pamphlet: Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government exclusively in the Guardian today.
Priorities for the next Labour government
As the UN General Assembly convened last week, longstanding speculation around the potential for a normalisation deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia has reached a fever pitch.
What happened
In today’s House of Lords debate on UK support for the Abraham Accords, two Labour peers urged the UK government to more proactively support the Accords on the global stage.
Lord Mendelsohn declared the Accords “one of the single most …
One million Israelis have visited the United Arab Emirates since the signing of the 2020 Abraham Accords.
Speaking to the Jewish News, Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson Lior Haiat said: “almost one-in-ten Israelis has visited the UAE since the end …
The first Labour Friends of Israel delegation of prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) since 2014 last week met with the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog.
What happened
View a PDF copy of our new pamphlet: Antisemitic Anti-Zionism: The Origins and Character of an Ideology
Labour Friends of Israel is proud to publish its latest policy pamphlet, Antisemitic Anti-Zionism: The Origins and Character of an Ideology.
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