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In Brief: West Bank violence showing no sign of coming to an end

Posted 7 December, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
MDA armoured ambulance > Tewfik, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons The escalating situation in the West Bank is likely to only get worse in the coming year as current tensions should not simply view this as a ‘wave of terror’ according to several Israeli officials. Brig. Gen. Amit Saar said that Iran will be the most…

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Analysis: Israeli president visits the UAE and Bahrain for the first time

Posted 7 December, 2022 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Peace process
Israeli president Isaac Herzog > Elad Brami, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Isaac Herzog this week returned to Israel after a two-day visit to Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. The Israeli President’s visit underlined the changed relationship between the two Gulf states and the Jewish state following the Abraham Accords, while also highlighting some…

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In Brief: Labor’s Michaeli points to link between far right and recent violence

Posted 29 November, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics
Merav Michaeli > Ron Kedmi, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Israel’s outgoing transportation minister and leader of the Israeli Labor party, Merav Michaeli, on Monday set out her view that recent violence in Israel was directly linked to violence in the West Bank and the political rise of the far right. “A straight line connects the…

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In Brief: Female soldier seriously hurt in latest car ramming terror attack

Posted 29 November, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
MDA armoured ambulance > Tewfik, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons An Israeli woman was seriously wounded on Tuesday following a car ramming attack in the West Bank. Surveillance footage of the attack near the West Bank settlement of Migron, north of Jerusalem, showed a black SUV turning to drive into a female soldier. The vehicle rammed into…

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Labour MPs attend briefing from Palestinian human rights activist

Posted 29 November, 2022 in Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
This evening, a number of Labour MPs joined a briefing from Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Eid at an event organised by the UK-Israel APPG. Eid's work since the 1990s has focused on human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, including by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. He also spoke about problems with corruption in the…

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In Brief: Israeli coalition negotiations drag on amid tensions

Posted 23 November, 2022 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Photo: Crown Copyright, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Religious Zionism, the alliance of far-right parties widely expected to partner with former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form Israel's next government, have declared that negotiations were "back at square one" after talks collapsed on Tuesday. The bone of contention has reportedly been the allocation of ministerial roles to party leaders, with…

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In Brief: Jerusalem rocked by double bus attack as teenager kidnapped

Posted 23 November, 2022 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Peace process
MDA armoured ambulance > Tewfik, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons 19 people have been injured, with one confirmed casualty, following two explosions in West Jerusalem this morning in what is thought to be a double terror attack. A third bomb was defused last night on the light rail track near Jerusalem's central bus station. The first victim…

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Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves addresses record LFI Annual Lunch

Posted 23 November, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel welcomed shadow chancellor and LFI vice-chair Rachel Reeves as keynote speaker at its Annual Lunch this week, the largest since Labour was last in government. Following on from last year’s success, at which Labour leader Keir Starmer made clear his rejection of antisemitic anti-Zionism and BDS, the 2022 Annual Lunch was LFI’s biggest since…

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