Category: Labour Party
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Labour MPs raise threat from Iran
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A number of LFI MPs and their colleagues have today used a backbench business debate in the House of Commons on the treatment of protestors in Iran to push the government to adopt a more comprehensive strategy towards Iran. In the debate, LFI vice-chair John Spellar MP twice repeated LFI’s…
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In Brief: UK reportedly preparing to proscribe Revolutionary Guards
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The UK government is reportedly preparing to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, following a longstanding campaign by LFI and many Jewish community groups. The IRGC is a hugely influential apparatus of the Iranian state, spearheading operations against opponents of the regime at home and abroad, especially in entrenching Iran’s influence in Iraq,…
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LFI partners with JLM at one day conference
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Labour Friends of Israel was delighted today to partner with the Jewish Labour Movement to organise a series of sessions on Israel and the Middle East as part of their one-day conference. First up was a fascinating discussion between Dame Louise Ellman and Labour’s shadow Middle East minister Bambos Charalambous,…
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In Brief: Iran places 6 UK parliamentarians on new sanctions list
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Six UK parliamentarians have been informed by the Foreign Office that they have been placed on Iran’s latest sanctions list. The list, published this week, included LFI vice-chair John Spellar and former shadow Middle East minister and LFI parliamentary supporter Wayne David. They join LFI chair Steve McCabe, who was sanctioned…
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LFI director: Pro-Israel, pro-Palestine and pro-peace solutions to the Gaza humanitarian crisis
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LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. The plight of the people of Gaza is desperate and undeniable. Amid rampant unemployment, creaking infrastructure and overstretched services nearly two in three Gazans live below the poverty line. At Labour Friends of Israel,…
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Gaza: Reconstruction, Revitalisation and Reality
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View a PDF copy of our new pamphlet: Gaza Reconstruction Revitalisation and Reality Labour Friends of Israel is proud to publish our third policy pamphlet of the year: Gaza: Reconstruction, Revitalisation and Reality. This publication explores the causes of the present political and humanitarian crises in Gaza, and what steps might…
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LFI chair writes to Foreign Secretary demanding action on Iran
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Steve McCabe, chair of Labour Friends of Israel, has today written to the foreign secretary, urging the UK government to expel Iran’s Chargé d’Affaires in London and downgrade diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic, proscribe Tehran’s ideological army, and widen sanctions on the regime’s executioners and propagandists. In his letter…
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Labour MPs demand action against Iran at FCDO Questions
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At today’s Foreign Office Questions, a number of Labour MPs demanded more action from the government to punish the Iranian regime for its treatment of protestors in recent months. LFI vice-chair John Spellar once again called for the government to proscribe the IRGC, the Iranian regime’s ideological terror army. “What…
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Labour MPs attend briefing from Palestinian human rights activist
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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…
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Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves addresses record LFI Annual Lunch
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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…
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Israeli Labor leader Merav Michaeli meets Keir Starmer
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Today, Israeli Labor party leader Merav Michaeli met with Labour leader Keir Starmer and shadow foreign secretary David Lammy in Parliament to strengthen and reaffirm the sister party relationship between Havoda and UK Labour. The meeting followed Merav’s address to LFI’s 2022 Annual Lunch yesterday.
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HE Tzipi Hotovely’s speech to LFI’s 2022 Annual Lunch
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*** Check against delivery *** Chief Rabbi, Parliamentarians, my fellow guests and speakers. It is a pleasure to be with you at the LFI Annual Lunch this afternoon. I want to thank the lunch sponsors, Sir David Garrard and Isaac Kaye, and all of you whose generosity makes…