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Lisa Nandy reaffirms Labour’s opposition to BDS

Posted 28 June, 2023 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Shadow Levelling Up Secretary Lisa Nandy MP In an interview with Jewish News last week, Shadow Levelling Up Secretary Lisa Nandy laid out how Labour “absolutely shares” the government’s belief that boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns against Israel can be adopted in this country to “whip up hostility against the Jewish community”. Confirming her own long-held…

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LFI chair writes to Foreign Secretary on “massive boost” for Iran’s missiles

Posted 27 June, 2023 in Iran, Labour Party, Middle East, News
Letter from LFI chair Steve McCabe to the Foreign Secretary Click here for a PDF copy of the above: Letter to Rt Hon James Cleverly M.P Today, LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written to the Foreign Secretary raising questions and concerns around the government's strategy towards Iran, and particularly the expiry of sanctions regarding Tehran's ballistic…

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LFI parliamentarians attend briefing with Israeli Intelligence Minister

Posted 22 June, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News
Israeli Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel addresses a cross-party group of parliamentarians This afternoon, Israel's Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel gave a briefing to a group of cross-party parliamentarians, organised by the UK-Israel APPG. A number of LFI parliamentarians attended the briefing, with discussion and questions on a range of issues, particularly the need for the UK government…

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LFI MPs sign cross-party letter on UK university support for Iranian drone development

Posted 20 June, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News
Drone > avionespana, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A number of LFI MPs have today added their names to a cross-party letter addressed to Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch, calling on the government to investigate allegations in the Jewish Chronicle that scientists at British universities have been helping Iran develop technology that could be…

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Andrew Gwynne pushes government on Iranian proxies in the UK

Posted 13 June, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Labour Party, News
LFI parliamentary supporter Andrew Gwynne MP LFI parliamentary supporter Andrew Gwynne has today used Foreign Office Questions to ask what steps the government is taking to deal with the activity of Iranian proxies in the UK, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). He asked: The Foreign Secretary knows that there are concerns across the House of…

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LFI MPs push government for tougher policy towards Iran

Posted 7 June, 2023 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI parliamentarians have today urged the government to take a more robust and comprehensive stance towards the Iranian regime at a Westminster Hall Debate on the topic. PLP chair John Cryer MP In his remarks, Parliamentary Labour Party chair John Cryer MP - a longstanding campaigner on the issue - once again set out the case for…

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LFI parliamentarians attend briefing with Abraham Initiatives

Posted 6 June, 2023 in Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News, Peace process
This afternoon, LFI parliamentarians have attended a briefing from the Abraham Initiatives, a non-profit organisation which works to promote “ full and equal citizenship and complete equality of social and political rights for Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens ”, in Parliament. Co-hosted by LFI and the New Israel Fund, attendees heard from Amnon Be…

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UK govt slammed for failure to ban IRGC in Lords debate

Posted 24 May, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
IRGC Parade in Tehran. Image Credit: YPA, CC-BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The government has been challenged over its failure to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group in a debate in the House of Lords yesterday. The debate follows reporting that the government was imminently about to proscribe the IRGC in early…

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Labour activists visit Israel and West Bank with LFI and We Believe

Posted 24 May, 2023 in Antisemitism, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
Activist delegation > LFI Senior Labour party activists visited Israel and the Palestinian territories last week, many of them for the first time, as part of a delegation led by LFI and We Believe in Israel. The group, including leaders from Labour affiliates, thinktanks and campaign groups, visited Yad Vashem, the Knesset, met with Israeli Labor leader…

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Christian Wakeford pushes government on Iranian disinformation in the UK

Posted 22 May, 2023 in Iran, Labour Party, News
LFI parliamentary supporter Christian Wakeford MP At today's Home Office Questions, LFI parliamentary supporter Christian Wakeford MP pushed the government for detail on its actions against Iranian interference in UK politics. "It's now more than two years since The Times reported that Iranian cyber specialists were peddling disinformation in an attempt to influence the results of the…

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