At Labour party conference we were delighted to be joined by Yair Golan, leader of Labour’s sister party – newly renamed the Democrats – for two days at conference this year as LFI’s guest. During his time in Liverpool, Golan met with senior ministers, Labour parliamentarians and Labour Party officials, Read more…
On the Sunday at conference, LFI hosted a packed fringe event at Labour conference in which delegates heard testimony from relatives of Israeli hostages who have been held in Gaza by Hamas for almost a year now. In a session chaired by LFI vice-chair Sharon Hodgson MP, delegates heard poignant Read more…
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told Community Security Trust’s (CST) annual business lunch that she will use the “full force of the law” against those “who use conflict in the Middle East as a pretext to attack communities here in Britain” yesterday. Cooper stressed “there is no place for the glorification of terrorism Read more…
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for JewishNews. Click here to read the original. The long-expected news that Iran has exported more than 200 ballistic missiles to bolster Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has rightly earned a swift and strong condemnation – and tough new sanctions – from Foreign Read more…
The war launched by Hamas on 7 October has brought about an unprecedented level of coordination between Iran’s proxies, forcing Israel to fight a multi-front conflict for close to a year. In this paper, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis: Iran’s “Axis of Resistance”, we outline the origins of, and explain Read more…
This afternoon, LFI hosted a briefing on Iran’s malign activities in the Middle East and increasing support for Putin’s war on Ukraine. Chaired by Matthew Patrick MP, the panel included Kasra Aarabi, director of IRGC research at United Against Nuclear Iran, Jemima Shelley, senior analyst at the Tony Blair Institute, Read more…
This week, Foreign Secretary David Lammy and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken held a joint press conference on a number of international challenges facing the two countries, including the situation in the Middle East. During the conference, Lammy stressed the UK’s commitment to brokering peace in the Middle East. Read more…
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for The Times. Click here to read the original. Since the 7 October Hamas atrocities, Labour has steadfastly repeated its belief in Israel’s right to defend itself. It has been right to do so, but the government’s decision this week to suspend Read more…
Since 7 October, Israel has come under repeated, unprovoked and indiscriminate attack by Iran and its proxies Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. We do not believe that restrictions on UK arms sales will help bring the tragic conflict in Gaza to a close or help ensure the release of the Read more…
This evening, LFI hosted a parliamentary briefing from Professor Ruth Halperin-Kaddari on her research around Hamas’s systematic use of sexual violence on 7 October and the horrors still faced by female hostages being kept in tunnels in Gaza. She also discussed the abandonment of Israeli women by the UN and Read more…
At today’s statement from the Foreign Secretary on the UK’s strategy towards the Middle East, a number of Labour MPs urged the government to be tougher in its policy towards the Iranian regime, particularly for its role in fuelling conflict in Gaza. High Peak MP Jon Pearce asked: “We are Read more…
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has today condemned the killing of six Israeli hostages in Gaza by Hamas as “horrific and senseless”. The IDF said the bodies of Carmel Gat, 40, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Alexander Lobanov, 33, Almog Sarusi, 27, and Ori Danino, 25, were found and recovered on Read more…