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Louise Ellman: We cannot let go of faith in the hope of making peace

LFI board member Louise Ellman has written the below article for The Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Former LFI chair Dame Louise Ellman The reservoirs of rage and hate are overflowing now, but we must plan for what comes next In the wake of the atrocities of October 7 and the ensuing catastrophic war, the reservoirs…

LFI chair: The world has failed the Jewish people, again

LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for the Jewish News. Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons LFI (Labour Friends of Israel) was founded a little under 10 years after the establishment of the State of Israel. We’ve supported Israel through the good times – the miracle…

LFI vice-chair Cat McKinnell raises Israel’s security and two state solution

LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell MP At today's Urgent Question on the Israel-Hamas War in the House of Commons, LFI parliamentary supporter Catherine McKinnell MP asked the Minister what steps the UK is pursuing with international partners to ensure the security of Israel and to allow for the rebuilding and a path toward statehood for Palestine. She asked…

LFI chair Steve McCabe’s speech to LFI’s 2023 Annual Lunch

LFI chair Steve McCabe MP addresses LFI's 2023 Annual Lunch *** Check against delivery ***     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.     …

Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s speech to LFI’s 2023 Annual Lunch

Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy addresses LFI 2023 Annual Lunch*** Check against delivery ***    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.    Thomas Webster, Tina Bhartwas, Sam…

Lammy recalls “day of horror” in address to LFI annual lunch

Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy addresses LFI's 2023 Annual Lunch 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 shadow foreign secretary was addressing the biggest…

LFI director: Could the Good Friday agreement be a model for Israeli-Palestinian peace?

LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for the Jewish News. Click here to read the original. LFI logo The catastrophic Israel-Hamas war is an irreversible turning point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The diplomatic priority for the international community in the short term is the massive humanitarian needs of Gazans and the effort to return hostages…

LFI chair: Labour can be ambitious in its Middle East policy

LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for Progressive Britain Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons If Labour wins the next general election, the political and economic landscape of the Middle East will look rather different than when Tony Blair arrived in Downing Street in 1997. Although…

In Brief: “Basic framework” for Israel-Saudi normalisation in place

Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 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 Saudi Arabia next…