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100 years since the birth of Harold Wilson, former Labour Prime Minister and great friend of Israel

Posted 4 March, 2016 in Israel, Labour Party, News
Harold Wilson was a great friend of Israel and of LFI. Next Friday marks the centenary of the former Labour Prime Minister’s birth. As our former Director, Lady Valerie Cocks, tells this week’s Jewish Chronicle: "He loved Israel and went on being president of LFI until he couldn't any more. He backed us in any way he could. I…

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Ian Austin MP: Calling Israel an “apartheid state” is a barrier to peace

Posted 3 March, 2016 in Coexistence, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Calling Israel an “apartheid state” is a barrier to peace by Ian Austin MP for LabourList. This article is available here  It’s extraordinary to think it’s been 25 years since millions of us sat transfixed by live footage of Nelson Mandela walking to freedom. As a teenager, I’d marched against apartheid, raised funds for the South African opposition…

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Lord Livermore, LFI Parliamentary supporter, slams ‘grotesque’ analogy between Israel and apartheid South Africa

Posted 23 February, 2016 in Israel, News
This article was published in the Jewish News Online. Its original version is available here A former Labour Party strategist will condemn “grotesque” analogies between Israel and apartheid South Africa, as activists mark Israel Apartheid Week across the UK. Lord Livermore, a former director of strategy at Downing Street who advised on four General Election campaigns, will also…

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Decision by university’s Labour society to support Israeli Apartheid Week prompts MPs to call for party to sever ties with club

Posted 17 February, 2016 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
Read the original article from the Guardian here. Labour opens inquiry into antisemitism allegations at Oxford student club, by Mark Tran for the Guardian, 17 February 2016 The Labour party’s national student organisation has launched an inquiry into allegations of antisemitic behaviour and intimidation at Oxford University Labour Club. Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader, who was…

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Joan Ryan MP writes to Grahame Morris MP, Chair of LFPME about an event in parliament with controversial speaker Abdel Bari Atwan

Posted 29 January, 2016 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories
Click here to read the original letter Read the JC's article here Dear Grahame, I believe that you are planning to host an event in parliament next Tuesday, which Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East are promoting, at which Abdel Bari Atwan will be the moderator. I am not sure if you are aware,…

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Ian Austin MP writes to Foreign Secretary to ask for further support to MEET, an organisation that brings together Palestinian and Israeli youngsters

Posted 18 January, 2016 in Coexistence, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Following a recent trip to Israel and the Palestinian Territories as part of the Australian Israel UK Leadership Dialogue last month, Ian Austin, Labour MP for Dudley North, wrote to Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond to ask him to support Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow (MEET), an organisation that helps Palestinians and Israeli youngsters develop leadership…

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OPINION – HILARY BENN: I’ve seen two possible futures for the Israelis and Palestinians

Posted 23 December, 2015 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
This article was originally published in the Jewish News: http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-hilary-benn-ive-seen-two-possible-futures-for-the-israelis-and-palestinians/   Last week I visited the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel. It was my third trip to a region I first visited more than a decade ago. The aim was simply to hear, to see and to learn more from people and politicians on both sides. I returned full…

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Labour parliamentarians write to Corbyn, call for NEC to reverse G4S boycott

Posted 3 December, 2015 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
Labour parliamentarians have written to Jeremy Corbyn this week urging him to join them in persuading the NEC to overturn its decision to boycott G4S. Following an unscheduled intervention by UNITE political director Jennie Formby, the party’s governing body last month voted to bar G4S from providing security at Labour’s annual conference because of the company’s…

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LFI Annual Lunch 2015 – Speech by Rt Hon Joan Ryan MP, Chair of LFI

Posted 17 November, 2015 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Rt Hon Joan Ryan MP Speech to LFI Annual Lunch 17th November 2015 Chief Rabbi, Deputy Ambassador, friends. I want to begin today by thanking you all for being here. The responsibility of supporters of Israel in the Labour Party has become even more important since we last met in June 2014. LFI’s work is more…

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