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Analysis: Capacity crowd as LFI makes full return to Labour conference

Posted 5 October, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East
Labour Friends of Israel fully returned to Labour party conference for the first time since 2018 last week, as thousands of parliamentarians, delegates and members descended on Brighton for the first physical conference of Keir Starmer’s leadership. Main takeaways The 2021 conference was a huge success for LFI, with an overwhelmingly positive response on our stall and…

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LFI back with a bang at packed conference reception

Posted 28 September, 2021 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
The highlight of LFI’s 2021 Labour conference was the annual reception, which took place on Tuesday night. Turnout for the reception overwhelmed all expectations, with some 500 people attending the two-hour event. Speakers to the capacity crowd included LFI chair Steve McCabe, Dame Louise Ellman, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy, shadow Middle East minister…

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Dame Louise Ellman returns to the Labour Party

Posted 27 September, 2021 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
Dame Louise Ellman at LFI conference stall > Ian Vogler photography, Jewish News. The highlight of Labour's 2021 conference was the return of Dame Louise Ellman to Labour. Dame Louise, a former LFI chair and MP for Liverpool Riverside, resigned from Labour in October 2019 in protest at the culture of antisemitism that had developed under the leadership…

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LFI chair: This is Sir Keir’s chance to show Labour can be a party that Jews can trust

Posted 24 September, 2021 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP. Image Credit: Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Next week, Keir Starmer will have his first real opportunity since becoming Labour leader to address the country as the party…

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LFI director: The Post-Netanyahu Israeli Left

Posted 23 September, 2021 in Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News
Israel's thirty-sixth government. Image Credit: Government Press Office, public domain. Labour Friends of Israel director Michael Rubin has written the below article for ZF Connect. Click here to read the original. If Abraham Lincoln’s Cabinet was famously “a team of rivals”, it is difficult to know how to describe that of Naftali Bennett. While Israel’s highly proportional electoral…

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In Brief: Iranian revolutionary guards boast of their power

Posted 22 September, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Hossein Salami, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC), boasted that Iran had “built power” to confront the US this week. “We have built power to defeat the US. When we build power [to confront] man’s largest military empire, i.e. the US, small powers like the Zionist…

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In Brief: Israel and Sweden renew ties after seven-year freeze

Posted 22 September, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Peace process
Swedish prime minister Stefan Lofven. Image Credit: Indian Prime Minister's Office, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The foreign ministers of Israel and Sweden held their first phone call in seven years on Monday, in a move one Israeli diplomat called a “relaunching of relations” after a lengthy period of tension. Yair Lapid spoke with his Swedish counterpart…

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In Brief: Palestinian polling shows support for confidence-building

Posted 22 September, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
PA president Mahmoud Abbas. Image Credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Some 56 percent of Palestinians approve of recent “confidence-building measures” by the Israeli government, intended to improve everyday life for Palestinians. Polling by Khalil Shikaki, director of the Palestinian Center for Survey and Policy Research, found that 56 percent of Palestinians viewed the moves…

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In Brief: Israel braces for escalation following stabbing attack

Posted 15 September, 2021 in Analysis, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories
Israeli police in Lod. Credit: Israel Police, CC BY-SA 3.0. Israeli security forces foiled a major attack this week, as Palestinian terror groups sought to set up violence in solidarity with six escaped prisoners, Hebrew media reported on Monday. The Shin Bet security service and police foiled a number of attacks, Channel 12 and 13 reported, without…

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In Brief: Israel and Egypt hold first high-level meeting in a decade

Posted 15 September, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Image credit: White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The leaders of Israel and Egypt, Naftali Bennett and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, held the first open talks in a decade on Monday as Bennett flew to Sharm el-Sheik. The leaders discussed rising tensions in Gaza, where both countries have imposed border restrictions in…

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