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New Palestinian Authority school lessons in hate raise concern over UK aid funding

Posted 12 December, 2017 in Antisemitism, Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
This article originally appeared in the Jewish Chronicle, click here to read it.  The Palestinian Authority school curriculum is teaching children the ‘virtues of martyrdom’ and repeatedly refers to Israel as the ‘Zionist Occupation’, an alarming new report has revealed. The newly updated syllabus, the first since the PA published its 2000 curriculum as part of the…

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Joan Ryan MP, LFI chair, speech to LFI Annual Lunch 2017

Posted 28 November, 2017 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Rt Hon Joan Ryan MP, LFI chair, speech to Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch 2017  Chief Rabbi, Ambassador Regev, friends Thank you to all of you for being here today. In particular, I want to thank Sir David Garrard and Isaac Kaye, our long-standing lunch sponsors. I also want to thank all of my parliamentary colleagues who have…

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LFI vice-chair Louise Ellman presses police over Hezbollah flags at Al-Quds march

Posted 21 November, 2017 in Antisemitism, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, News
This article first appeared in the JewishNews.  An MP who is vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel has pushed the Metropolitan Police to raise concerns about protesters waving Hezbollah flags at the annual Al-Quds Day march in London. Louise Ellman MP met police chiefs and expressed concern that marchers were exploiting a legal loophole, under which it…

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LFI chair writes to Theresa May over Temple Mount concerns

Posted 26 July, 2017 in Incitement, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories
LFI’s chair, Joan Ryan, has today written to the Prime Minister regarding the situation at the Temple Mount. In her letter, she details evidence of incitement perpetrated by the Palestinian Authority over the past 10 days, and writes: “While President Abbas initially condemned the terrorist attack on the Temple Mount, the PA and his political party, Fatah, appear to have subsequently given…

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Analysis: Terror at the Temple Mount

Posted 20 July, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories
The terrorist attack at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem last week, and ongoing disturbances surrounding new security measures introduced around the holy site by Israel, has thrown a renewed focus on what has been described as “the most incendiary spot in the Middle East”. Two Israeli police officers standing guard at the Lion’s Gate entrance to…

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Analysis: PA’s terror payments revealed

Posted 1 June, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The full extent of the Palestinian Authority’s policy of paying “salaries” to terrorists and their families was revealed this week, with the bill said to have exceeded $1bn over the last four years. The figure was revealed by Brig.-Gen (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, a former director general of Israel ’s Ministry of…

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Analysis: Pressure increases over PA terrorist salaries

Posted 3 May, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
LFI chair Joan Ryan MP has written to Theresa May, urging the government to ensure that the Palestinian Authority does not pay a salary to the man who murdered British student Hannah Bladon in Jerusalem last month.  This practice, enshrined in Palestinian law and first exposed in 2011, has been widely condemned by the international…

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Analysis: Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike continues

Posted 26 April, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti announced last week that he was going on hunger strike, accepting only water and salt. Palestinian officials say Barghouti’s health is "dangerously deteriorating" and that he is refusing Israeli medical treatment and food. This dramatic move has garnered the support of 1,000 of his fellow prisoners who are striking alongside him.…

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Analysis: Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike continues

Posted 26 April, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti announced last week that he was going on hunger strike, accepting only water and salt. Palestinian officials say Barghouti’s health is "dangerously deteriorating" and that he is refusing Israeli medical treatment and food. This dramatic move has garnered the support of 1,000 of his fellow prisoners who are striking alongside him.…

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