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Foreign Secretary announces new sanctions against Iran in response to ballistic attack on Israel

Posted 14 October, 2024 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, Middle East, News
Foreign Secretary David Lammy Foreign Secretary David Lammy has announced a fresh round of sanctions targeting Iranian military figures and organisations for their continued role in destabilising political relations across the Middle East. In response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack against Israel on October 1, the government said it was taking action against senior figures in the Islamic…

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Prime Minister delivers statement on October 7 anniversary

Posted 7 October, 2024 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, News
Today, the Prime Minister delivered a statement to the house on the anniversary of 7 October Hamas attacks. He opened the statement noting that October 7 "was the bloodiest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust". The anniversary marked "a day of sorrow, a day of grief" in which "over a thousand people were…

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Israeli hostage families meet with Labour parliamentarians

Posted 25 September, 2024 in Hamas, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, News
Hostage families meet with Mark Sewards MP (top left); Julie Minns MP and Alan Gemmell MP (top right); Mike Tapp MP (bottom left); and Rachel Blake MP and James Frith MP (bottom right) Visiting hostage family members met with a number of Labour parliamentarians and party figures during their time in Liverpool as guests of LFI…

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LFI Chair Jon Pearce speech to LFI annual reception at conference

Posted 24 September, 2024 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, LFI Focus, Middle East, News, Peace process
I’d like to begin tonight by paying tribute and offering thanks to my three predecessors: Steve McCabe stepped down as chair at the general election after taking the helm in 2020. As a parliamentary candidate, I was lucky enough to travel to Israel on an LFI delegation led by Steve. His knowledge, commitment and leadership…

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LFI Annual Reception at Party Conference 2024

Posted 24 September, 2024 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Peace process, Uncategorized
Labour Friends of Israel’s annual conference reception was addressed by several senior members of the Cabinet last night, including the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor. Attendees and speakers also heard from two Israeli hostage family members, Noam Safir and Sharone Lifschitz, whose respective grandfather and father have been held hostage by Hamas for almost a…

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Israeli Labor leader Yair Golan at Labour Party Conference

Posted 23 September, 2024 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Peace process
At Labour party conference we were delighted to be joined by Yair Golan, leader of Labour's sister party - newly renamed the Democrats - for two days at conference this year as LFI's guest. During his time in Liverpool, Golan met with senior ministers, Labour parliamentarians and Labour Party officials, including Foreign Secretary David Lammy,…

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Labour, Israel & Palestine: Lessons from the Blair-Brown Years

Posted 19 September, 2024 in Analysis, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Today, LFI publishes a new paper: Labour, Israel & Palestine: Lessons from the Blair-Brown years.  Authored by Dr Toby Greene, the paper analyses the context and approach taken by the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and outlines the lessons that can be learnt for our new Labour government.   The Israeli-Palestinian arena presents a crisis…

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Home Secretary will use “full force of law” against Hamas and Hezbollah supporters

Posted 18 September, 2024 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Labour Party, News
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper MP Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told Community Security Trust’s (CST) annual business lunch that she will use the “full force of the law” against those “who use conflict in the Middle East as a pretext to attack communities here in Britain” yesterday. Cooper stressed “there is no place for the glorification of terrorism or…

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