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Mark Sewards: “It is now imperative for the UK to reset its relationship with Israel”

Posted 13 February, 2026 in Abraham Accords, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Peace process
LFI honorary chair Mark Sewards has written the article below for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. This week, I am visiting Israel and Bahrain; my first trip to the region since becoming Labour Friends of Israel’s new parliamentary chair. My visit comes at a moment of huge opportunity and challenge. Israelis…

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Mark Sewards meets with Palestinian Peace Activist Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

Posted 13 February, 2026 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI honorary chair Mark Sewards met with Palestinian-American humanitarian peace activist Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib in parliament on 21 January. At Portcullis House, the Labour MP for Leeds South West and Morley discussed with the peace activist the progress made on the Gaza peace plan, the steps necessary as the second phase is set to…

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Samantha Niblett: Hamas “must have nothing to do” with Gaza’s future

Posted 29 October, 2025 in Hamas, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
Samantha Niblett MP At today's Urgent Question on the situation in Gaza, South Derbyshire MP Samantha Niblett raised the recent executions by Hamas against Palestinians in Gaza. She asked: "All Members have been appalled by the scenes that emerged from Gaza in the wake of the ceasefire, showing Hamas executing people in the streets as they…

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Foreign Secretary: Hamas must be thoroughly disarmed

Posted 28 October, 2025 in Hamas, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper MP At today's Foreign Office Questions session, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper set out the government's position on the need for Hamas to be thoroughly disarmed in the Gaza Strip and for the bodies of the remaining hostages to be freed. She said: "We will all have seen the incredibly moving scenes of…

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Prime Minister: Hamas disarmament must be non-negotiable

Posted 14 October, 2025 in Hamas, Israel, Labour Party, News, Peace process
Prime Minister Keir Starmer At today's statement on the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, Prime Minister Keir Starmer set out the government's position that the disarmament of Hamas is "non-negotiable". He said: "Disarmament must be non-negotiable, and that is why it is written into the 20-point plan, and it is why we are now…

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Dame Louise Ellman: We must tackle the poisonous lies about Israel to stop the rising tide of antisemitism

Posted 10 October, 2025 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Labour Party, News
Former LFI chair Dame Louise Ellman Former LFI chair Dame Louise Ellman has written the below article for the Daily Telegraph. Click here to read the original. A major terror attack on a Jewish institution – such as that which tragically occurred at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation last Thursday – was both predictable and predicted. For two…

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Justice for atrocities must matter

Posted 7 October, 2025 in Hamas, News, Social Justice, Voices for Change
Justice for atrocities must matter by Yael Vias Gvirsman  As Robert Jackson, the chief US prosecutor, reminded the world at Nuremberg: “Civilisation cannot tolerate [these acts] being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.”  The trials at Nuremberg and, later, the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, stand as defining moments in modern legal and moral…

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