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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has first calls with Israeli and Palestinian leaders

Posted 7 July, 2024 in Analysis, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Prime Minister Keir Starmer Newly-elected Labour prime minister Keir Starmer has today spoken with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas. In his call with Netanyahu, the Prime Minister "said he looked forward to further deepening the close relationship between the two countries". They went on to discuss the importance of…

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Israeli politicians welcome Labour election victory

Posted 5 July, 2024 in Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News
Israeli politicians from across the political spectrum have sent their congratulations to Keir Starmer upon his election as prime minister following yesterday's general election. Israeli president Isaac Herzog, a former leader of Labour's Israeli sister party, was among the first world leaders to tweet his congratulations, saying "I look forward to working together with him…

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LFI director: A party transformed: thousands of British Jews once again put their trust in the Labour party

Posted 5 July, 2024 in Antisemitism, Labour Party, News
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for JewishNews. Click here to read the original. Labour’s historic landslide is a testament to the prime minister’s transformation of the Labour party. Keir’s leadership, and the fortitude of all those who know Labour is at its best as a credible, mainstream party of government, have changed our…

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Keir Starmer and David Lammy meet with hostage family members

Posted 21 May, 2024 in Hamas, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, News
Keir Starmer and David Lammy meeting with hostage family members in Parliament Today, Labour leader Keir Starmer and shadow foreign secretary David Lammy met in Parliament with a delegation of family members of some of the Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza by the Hamas terror group since the 7 October attacks. The delegation, largely made…

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Angela Rayner: “Hateful minority” committing “appalling incidents of antisemitism” at Palestine marches

Posted 21 May, 2024 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, News
Angela Rayner MP Ahead of a speech from Michael Gove on the subject, Labour's deputy leader and shadow communities secretary Angela Rayner MP today set out Labour's view that: "There is no place in Britain for antisemitic hate and those who push this poison should face the full force of the law. We all have a responsibility…

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LFI parliamentarians raise Hamas sex attacks at Westminster Hall Debate

Posted 14 May, 2024 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, News
LFI vice-chair Sharon Hodgson MP and LFI parliamentary supporters Margaret Hodge MP and Alex Davies-Jones MP At today's Westminster Hall Debate on the prevention of sexual violence in conflict, three LFI parliamentarians spoke about the sexual assaults carried out by Hamas against Israeli women and girls on 7 October and the international community's reluctance to recognise…

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LFI parliamentarians make the case for proscribing the IRGC

Posted 8 May, 2024 in Iran, Labour Party, News
LFI parliamentary supporter Margaret Hodge MP and LFI vice-chair Sharon Hodgson MP At today's Westminster Hall Debate on countering Iran’s hostile activities, two LFI parliamentarians set out the case for the government to take a stronger stand against the Iranian regime, and particularly its ideological terror army, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). LFI parliamentary supporter Margaret…

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LFI director Michael Rubin: How a Labour Government could advance peace in the Middle East

Posted 8 May, 2024 in Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for JewishNews. Click here to read the original. Amid the horror in Israel and Gaza over the past seven months, there have been few causes for hope and optimism. While President Biden’s credible and constructive plan for the future is much needed, any new diplomatic effort to resolve…

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LFI publishes Civil Society and a New Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: An Agenda for a Labour Government

Posted 8 May, 2024 in Coexistence, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
READ AND DOWNLOAD THE REPORT HERE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since 7 October, Israelis and Palestinians have seen catastrophic violence and injustice, eclipsing the already bleak precedents of recent decades. There is now an urgent need to launch a diplomatic process towards ending this conflict. If a renewed diplomatic process is to succeed where all its predecessors have…

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