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Analysis: Israel prepares for major ground operation

Posted 27 October, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories
IDF soldiers stationed in Southern Israel trained along the Gaza border to ensure an ongoing level of preparedness.> Yoav Karen, CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED via Wikimedia Commons. Latest developments Nearly three weeks after a savage Hamas terror attack left at least 1,400 people murdered, more than 5,000 wounded, and at least 220 abducted, Israel’s war against…

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LFI chair: Backing an Israel-Hamas ceasefire now would be a recipe for endless war

Posted 27 October, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Some calls for a ceasefire in Gaza are understandable and I share the sentiment that lies behind them. Witnessing the dire humanitarian situation on our TV screens is heartbreaking. That’s why Labour Friends of Israel has…

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LFI vice-chair Diana Johnson: There will be no peace while Hamas still has power

Posted 26 October, 2023 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI vice-chair Dame Diana Johnson MP has written the below article for TheHouse. Click here to read the original. LFI vice-chair Dame Diana Johnson MP They murdered and kidnapped Holocaust survivors, massacred babies and gunned down young people as they danced at a music festival. It is difficult to comprehend – let alone explain – the savagery which Hamas terrorists…

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LFI backs Biden administration’s calls for Gaza humanitarian aid pauses

Posted 25 October, 2023 in Hamas, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is urgent and desperate. The deaths and suffering of innocent Palestinian civilians, especially children, is tragic and heartbreaking. The humanitarian situation is rooted in 16 years of rule by Hamas – an antisemitic terror group which has repeatedly and consistently prioritised its genocidal war against Israel and the Jewish people over…

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Rayner: Israel boycotts “offer no meaningful route to peace”

Posted 25 October, 2023 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories
Labour deputy leader and shadow levelling up secretary Angela Rayner Speaking for the Labour frontbench in today's report stage debate of the Economic Activity of Public Bodies Bill, Labour’s deputy leader and shadow secretary of state for levelling up, Angela Rayner, reiterated that “Labour is opposed to a policy of adopting boycott, divestment and sanctions against…

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Labour Lords push govt on BBC, hostages and IRGC proscription

Posted 24 October, 2023 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay LFI's chair in the House of Lords, Baroness Ramsay, said with regard to the BBC's reporting of the the conflict between Israel and Hamas: "Saying that Hamas is designated a terrorist organisation was a weasel-worded way of getting out of the fact that they were not going to call it terrorist…

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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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Starmer reaffirms support for Israel’s right to self-defence

Posted 23 October, 2023 in Hamas, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour leader Keir Starmer At the start of his response to the prime minister's statement on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas today, Labour leader Keir Starmer condemned Hamas's "barbarism" following the horrific terror attacks of 7 October. He said: "The brutal attack in Israel just over two weeks ago was the darkest day in Jewish…

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LFI parliamentarians push govt on anti-Israel extremism and antisemitism

Posted 23 October, 2023 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Israel, Labour Party, News
Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons At today's statement from the prime minister on the situation in Israel and Gaza, a number of LFI parliamentarians pushed the government for measures to counter extremism and antisemitism domestically following Hamas's terror attacks on Israel. LFI chair Steve McCabe MP asked: "I welcome the Prime Minister’s statement. Given…

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