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In Brief: Labour and Conservative Friends chairs call for international peace fund

Posted 30 March, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe and Conservative Friends of Israel chair Stephen Crabb have written a joint op-ed in today’s Times Red Box, calling on the government to “seize the moment” at the G7 summit in Cornwall later this year by committing…

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LFI Chair: We must suspend aid that finances hate-filled curriculum

Posted 17 February, 2021 in Coexistence, Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
Image: IMPACT-se Labour Friends of Israel Chair Steve McCabe MP has written for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. Britain is a long-standing advocate of  a two-state solution, but its funding for these lessons in hate undermines this. We should support efforts to bring about peace, reconciliation and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. Instead, UK aid…

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In Brief: US bill with $250m boost to Israel-Palestine peacebuilding becomes law

Posted 13 January, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Nita Lowey. (Photo: The Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, CC BY-SA 4.0  via Wikimedia Commons) The US Congress has passed a historic bill which will provide a $250m boost to coexistence work in Israel-Palestine, as well as Palestinian economic development. The legislation, which received bipartisan support, was signed after days of prevarication by Donald…

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LFI Chair Steve McCabe MP Speaks in Parliamentary Global Britain Debate

Posted 12 January, 2021 in Coexistence, Iran, News
On Monday 11 January LFI Chair Steve McCabe spoke during a Global Britain debate which took place in the main chamber at the House of Commons. Steve urged the Government to support the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. Steve said the Fund, which has been pioneered by the Alliance for Middle East Peace and will provide support for non-governmental organisations and…

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LFI vice-chair writes to Middle East minister on peace-building funding following parliamentary debate

Posted 25 November, 2020 in Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Catherine McKinnell. Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell has written to Middle East minister James Cleverely following last week's parliamentary debate calling for the UK to back an international fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Ms McKinnell's debate is part of a long-running LFI campaign to secure greater support from the…

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LFI Hosts Parliamentary Briefing with ALLMEP

Posted 18 November, 2020 in Coexistence, Israel, News
  On Tuesday November 17th LFI hosted a parliamentary briefing with John Lyndon, Executive Director of ALLMEP, the Alliance for Middle East Peace. ALLMEP is a coalition of over 125 organisations—and tens of thousands of Palestinians and Israelis—building people-to-people cooperation, coexistence, equality, shared society, mutual understanding, and peace among their communities. The briefing was a unique opportunity for parliamentarians…

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Analysis: LFI MPs push for International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Posted 17 November, 2020 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell led a debate in parliament today calling for the British government to support the establishment of an international fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace. The debate is part of a long-running campaign by LFI – ‘For Israel, For Palestine, For Peace’ – to back the fund, which would invest in peacebuilding projects that bring…

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LFI Vice-Chair: ‘Global Britain’ must mean investing in Israeli-Palestinian peace-building

Posted 17 November, 2020 in Coexistence, News, Peace process
David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons LFI vice-chair Diana Johnson MP has written for LabourList, click here to read the original. My fellow Labour Friends of Israel vice-chair Catherine McKinnell has today secured a parliamentary debate on UK support for an international fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace. This debate could not come at a better time. The US…

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In Brief: Hamas court convicts peace activists over Zoom call with Israelis

Posted 27 October, 2020 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
 Photo: Orthuberra, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons A military court in Gaza this week convicted three Palestinian peace activists for holding a video call with Israelis in April. Rami Aman, the head of the Gaza Youth Committee, was sentenced to a year in prison after being found guilty of “weakening revolutionary spirit”. However, the court…

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In Brief: MEPs urge EU to get tough with PA on controversial curriculum

Posted 14 October, 2020 in Analysis, Coexistence, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Photo courtesy IMPACT-se More than 20 members of the European parliament from 15 nations have urged the European Union to partially withhold funding from the PA until Ramallah makes sweeping changes to its controversial school curriculum. The new curriculum, introduced in 2017, incites violence, glorifies terrorism and contains antisemitic content. The UK government has admitted its aid…

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