Regional tensions in the Middle East have risen in recent days as a seventh round of talks over the resurrection of the Iran nuclear deal, first negotiated in 2015, have begun in Vienna. What’s happening Negotiations resumed on Monday following a five-month hiatus, hoping to breathe new life into the deal following Read more…
Labour Friends of Israel vice-chair Diana Johnson MP has written the below article for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. The recent speech to the Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch by Keir Starmer offered not simply an intellectually coherent outline of his approach to the Middle East but Read more…
A member of Hamas launched a terror attack in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday morning, killing one Israeli civilian and wounding four others – including worshippers returning from the Western Wall. What happened Hamas lauded the attack, in which 26-year-old tour guide Eliyahu David Kay died, as “a heroic operation”. Read more…
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…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step One: Tackle the humanitarian crisis in Gaza with emergency infrastructure plan for improving energy supplies, sanitation and clean water After more than a decade of war, Israeli and Egyptian restrictions, and Hamas misrule, the humanitarian situation in 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 *** Chief Rabbi, Leader of the Opposition, Parliamentarians, my fellow guests and speakers. It is a pleasure to be with you at the LFI Annual Lunch this afternoon. I want to thank our lunch sponsors, Sir David Garrard and Isaac Kaye, and all of you who 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…
Hossein Salami, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC), boasted that Iran had “built power” to confront the US this week. “We have built power to defeat the US. When we build power [to confront] man’s largest military empire, i.e. the US, small powers like the Zionist regime are Read more…