Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. Earlier this month, we marked the tragic assassination in 1995 of Yitzhak Rabin – an event that robbed Israel of a great soldier and statesman. Rabin’s signing of the Read more…
Israel, Jordan and the UAE will reportedly sign a deal by which a solar plant in the Jordanian desert would be built to generate power for Israel in exchange for a desalination plant in Israel to provide Jordan with water. The deal is slated to be signed in Dubai next Read more…
Labour Friends of Israel welcomed Labour leader Keir Starmer as guest of honour to its Annual Lunch this week, which saw capacity crowd in a packed out hall. Success The 2021 Annual Lunch was the first to take place since 2018, after previous lunches had to be cancelled due to Read more…
*** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** Steve McCabe MP Chair, Labour Friends of Israel Speech to LFI Annual Lunch Chief Rabbi, Ambassador Hotovely, friends. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch. We wouldn’t be here today without the support of many of you in this room. Read more…
KEIR STARMER SPEECH FOR LFI ANNUAL LUNCH 2021 *** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** Chief Rabbi, Ambassador, friends. It is a pleasure to be with you today at LFI’s annual lunch – our first opportunity to gather together since 2018. I want to join Steve in thanking today’s co-sponsors, Sir Read more…
The economy of the Palestinian territories is exhibiting “signs of recovery” despite serious challenges of unemployment and “deteriorating social conditions” in Gaza, a report by the World Bank said this week. The first half of 2021 saw a growth rate of 5.4 percent, with growth expected to reach 6 percent Read more…
Hamas, the Islamist terror group which governs Gaza, condemned six people to death last week for cooperating with Israel. The military judiciary in the Gaza Strip also announced additional sentences ranging from hard labour to life imprisonment. Two of those sentenced, a 58-year-old Gazan and a 57-year-old from Khan Younis, Read more…
Israel has advanced plans for 1,303 new homes for Palestinians in Area C of the West Bank on Monday. This was the first authorisation of its kind under the new coalition government came to power in June, and the first since the Biden administration was inaugurated in January. The Higher Read more…
Israel’s National Security Council ended a travel warning for Morocco that has been in effect for over a decade. In a statement, the council said the decision was made following an assessment that the threat level to Israelis in Morocco had decreased following diplomatic normalisation between the two countries, signed Read more…
Israel announced on Monday that it was opening its border with Lebanon – with which it is technically at war – in order to allow agricultural workers to pick olives. “In light of the economic situation in Lebanon, and as a gesture of goodwill to the Lebanese people, the IDF Read more…
Labour Friends of Israel director Michael Rubin has written the below article for the Labour Foreign Policy Group. Click here to read the original. In the months since President Biden’s inauguration, we’ve already begun to see the difference in his administration’s approach to international affairs. “America First” is out, multilateral engagement is Read more…
Israel announced this week that it had officially legalised the status of 4,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, ending a decade-long freeze in which almost no requests were authorised under Benjamin Netanyahu. The move was part of the government’s ongoing effort, led by defence minister Benny Gantz, to strengthen the Read more…