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David Lammy sets out Labour’s concerns on IRGC and Iran’s nuclear programme

Posted 6 July, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News
Shadow Foreign Secretary and LFI parliamentary supporter David Lammy MP In his response to this afternoon's statement on Iran, Shadow Foreign Secretary and LFI parliamentary supporter David Lammy MP made clear that the government must go further to deal with the threats posed to the UK and Israel by the Iranian regime. Lammy set out the case…

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Labour affirms for support Israel’s self-defence and condemns Tel Aviv terror attack

Posted 5 July, 2023 in Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Shadow Middle East Minister and LFI parliamentary supporter Wayne David MP At today's Urgent Question on recent violence in the West Bank, shadow Minister for the Middle East and LFI parliamentary supporter Wayne David MP used his comments to reaffirm Labour's support for Israel's right to defend itself against terrorism, and condemned today's terror attack in…

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In Brief: Palestinian Islamic Jihad chief boasts of presence in West Bank

Posted 4 July, 2023 in Hamas, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Ziyad al-Nakhleh > Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-backed terror group based in Gaza, has boasted in an interview that his group was working to establish cells of fighters in the West Bank. In an interview released on Saturday, Ziad Nakhaleh said that Iran’s head of…

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In Brief: Thousands protest judicial reforms at Ben Gurion airport

Posted 4 July, 2023 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Benjamin Netanyahu > World Economic Forum / Manuel Lopez, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A huge protest by thousands of Israelis opposing the Netanyahu government’s judicial reforms took place across Ben Gurion airport on Monday. Chants of ‘democracy’ and ‘this government is criminal’ rang through the arrivals hall, while passengers arriving into Israel greeted by the deafening sound of…

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In Brief: Seven hurt in car ramming Palestinian terror attack in Tel Aviv

Posted 4 July, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
MDA armoured ambulance > Tewfik, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons Israeli medics are responding to reports of a car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday afternoon. The attack took place on Pinkhas Rosen Street in the northeast of the city, in the residential neighbourhood of Neve Dan. Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency ambulance service, said its medics…

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Analysis: Israel launches largest West Bank counter-terror operation in two decades

Posted 4 July, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Israeli troops Jenin in 2002 > IDF Spokesperson's Unit / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israeli forces launched the largest counter-terror operation in the West Bank in twenty years yesterday as they seek to counter terrorist activity in Jenin. What happened Starting on Monday, the IDF is targeting armed groups in the city of Jenin in…

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LFI parliamentarians take part in urgent question on West Bank violence

Posted 4 July, 2023 in Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
A number of LFI parliamentarians have today taken part in an Urgent Question in the House of Commons on recent violence in the West Bank. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons LFI chair Steve McCabe MP said: "I share the distress of others at the loss of civilian life. Islamic Jihad has already claimed…

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LFI chair makes case for “focused” anti-BDS legislation in Commons debate

Posted 3 July, 2023 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons This evening, LFI chair Steve McCabe MP set out his opposition to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel while critiquing the government's drafted Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill. Read Steve's full speech below: "I had been looking forward to this legislation. As…

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Labour sets out opposition to BDS in Commons debate

Posted 3 July, 2023 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Shadow Levelling Up Secretary Lisa Nandy MP In today's second reading of the government's Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill, Labour reaffirmed its opposition to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which seeks to delegitimise Israel, the world's only Jewish state. In her role as shadow Levelling Up Secretary, Lisa Nandy MP reiterated Labour's…

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LFI chair: UK Government must act before Iran missile ban lapses

Posted 29 June, 2023 in Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Iran possesses the largest and potentially most diverse ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East. Yet incredibly, in October, Britain and our European allies are set to end all sanctions…

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