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Labour FCDO Lords spokesperson: “Responsibility for this crisis lies with Hamas”

Posted 24 October, 2023 in Hamas, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
Labour's shadow Lords FCDO spokesperson, Lord Collins of Highbury Responding today's debate in the House of Lords for the opposition, Labour's Foreign Office spokesperson in the House of Lords, Lord Collins, said: "As Keir Starmer said yesterday, the brutal attack in Israel just over two weeks ago was the darkest day in Jewish history since the…

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Labour pushes for hostage release and IRGC proscription amid Israel-Hamas war

Posted 24 October, 2023 in Hamas, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories
Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy MP Labour's shadow foreign secretary and LFI parliamentary supporter David Lammy MP used one of his questions to ask: "George Mitchell, the great American peacemaker, said that diplomacy was “700 days of failure and one day of success”. Labour recognises the hard, quiet diplomacy required to secure the release of hostages…

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LFI director Michael Rubin: Labour members should welcome Keir’s clear line on terror and antisemitism

Posted 19 October, 2023 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. Keir Starmer addressing LFI's vigil at Labour conference Hamas’ attacks on Israel on October 7 were brutal and unprecedented. Deliberately targeting civilians, 1,400 people were murdered: young people enjoying a rave, Holocaust survivors and pregnant women among them. At a kibbutz I…

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LFI statement on the tragic events of the last 10 days in Israel and Gaza

Posted 17 October, 2023 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, News
Last weekend, Hamas launched a terrorist attack deliberately targeting Israeli civilians. Over 1,400 people were murdered: babies massacred, Holocaust survivors shot dead and entire families tortured and killed. Hamas seized 200 Israeli hostages, including women, children and people with disabilities.    The terror attacks represent the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.…

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Analysis: Israel reels from Hamas attacks as Gaza intervention looms

Posted 17 October, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories
The remains of the Sderot city police after Hamas attacks > Yoav Karen, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED, via Wikimedia Commons. Israel is preparing to initiate a “significant ground operation” to strike Hamas in Gaza “from air, sea and land” following last week’s terror attacks. Latest developments Latest figures suggest that at least 1,400 Israelis were killed in the Hamas…

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Labour “stands with Israel” in Commons statement

Posted 16 October, 2023 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
Labour leader Keir Starmer At today's statement from the prime minister on Hamas's attacks on Israel and the ongoing situation in Gaza, Labour leader Keir Starmer made clear that "Labour stands with Israel", summarising the party's wish to "send a strong message that Westminster is united, and Britain is united: with Israel, against terror, for international…

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Analysis: Hamas’ bloody massacre sparks war with Israel

Posted 11 October, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories
IDF Armored forces at a staging area in Upper Galilee, near the northern Israeli border with Lebanon, October 11, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90) Hamas launched a massive assault on southern Israel on Saturday morning, murdering over 1,000 men, women and children and kidnapping an estimated 130 hostages. Thousands of people were injured in the well-planned and highly…

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Starmer to LFI: “Labour stands with Israel”

Posted 10 October, 2023 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
Keir Starmer addressing LFI's vigil at Labour conference Keir Starmer strongly backed Israel and condemned Hamas at LFI’s reception on Tuesday evening, at which some 1,000 people turned out to show support for the Jewish state. The Labour leader addressed LFI supporters during a vigil for the victims of the terrorist attacks, during which there was a…

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LFI chair: Labour can be ambitious in its Middle East policy

Posted 6 October, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for Progressive Britain Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons If Labour wins the next general election, the political and economic landscape of the Middle East will look rather different than when Tony Blair arrived in Downing Street in 1997. Although…

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Analysis: LFI lays out Middle East policy agenda for next Labour government

Posted 5 October, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
Ahead of Labour’s annual conference next week, LFI has released its latest policy pamphlet: Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government exclusively in the Guardian today. Priorities for the next Labour government Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government offers 26 policy recommendations to a wide range of issues relevant to the…

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