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Metropolitan police confirm to LFI vice-chair Hezbollah flags can be flown on Al-Quds day due to government policy

Posted 30 May, 2018 in Antisemitism, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Middle East, News
In a letter to Louise Ellman MP, vice-chair of LFI, Commander Jane Connors of the Metropolitan police confirmed that the Hezbollah flag can be flown at this year's Al-Quds day protest in London as the terror group’s "political wing" is not proscribed by parliament. The letter makes clear that it is government policy – and not…

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Analysis: Abbas’ antisemitism pervades the PA

Posted 3 May, 2018 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
  Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Mahmoud Abbas claimed on Monday that the behaviour of Jews was responsible for the Holocaust – the latest example of the antisemitism regularly perpetrated by the president and the Palestinian Authority. Addressing the Palestinian National Council in Ramallah, Abbas said Hitler’s murder of six million Jews was not caused by antisemitism…

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Analysis: UK funds PA lessons in hate

Posted 11 April, 2018 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
The government has admitted that British aid is helping to support the delivery of the Palestinian Authority’s new school curriculum – a curriculum which promotes terrorism and encourages children to become "martyrs". The revelation was exposed by LFI chair Joan Ryan and covered by the Sunday Times last weekend. In response to a series of parliamentary questions tabled by…

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Analysis: Israel’s weekend of terror

Posted 23 March, 2018 in Analysis, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Three Israelis were murdered in a weekend of terror attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Adiel Kolman, a 32-year-old father of four, was stabbed to death near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday. Two days earlier, two Israeli soldiers were killed and another two injured following a car ramming attack outside a military…

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Time to get tough, Prime Minister

Posted 1 March, 2018 in Coexistence, Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
This op-ed first appeared in the Jewish Chronicle, click here to view the original.  Britain is a major donor to the Palestinian Authority. Over the period to 2021, £125m of taxpayers’ money will be sent to Ramallah. Supporting a viable Palestinian administration is key to the UK’s goal of achieving a two-state solution, a goal we fully…

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Analysis: Abbas speech peddles “antisemitic fictions”

Posted 17 January, 2018 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons In an angry, some believe valedictory, address on Sunday evening, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, delivered a series of broadsides against Israel, rejected the nascent US peace plan and vowed to continue paying salaries to convicted Palestinian terrorists. Abbas’ speech drew sharp criticism from across the Israeli political spectrum, with Labor…

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Analysis: What is the PA teaching Palestinian children?

Posted 21 December, 2017 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Earlier this year, Mahmoud Abbas told President Trump: "We are raising our youth, our children, our grandchildren on a culture of peace." It is not a claim that withstands much scrutiny. The Palestinian Authority which Abbas heads namessummer camps and schools after terrorists, and its official media pumps out a diet of antisemitic incitement, which even features in children’s television…

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LFI raises questions over anti-Israel US Embassy protest

Posted 12 December, 2017 in Antisemitism, Incitement, Labour Party, News
LFI has written to Labour MP Andy Slaughter asking him to condemn antisemitic chanting which occurred at a demonstration he attended last week outside the US Embassy. Mr Slaughter was one of a number of speakers at a rally called to protest at President Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Videos of…

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