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LFI Lords chair meets coexistence activist Samah Salaime

Baroness Ramsay meets Samah Salaime Today, LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay met with Samah Salaime, Head of Communications and Development at the Village of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, a community founded to demonstrate cooperation and friendship between Israeli Jews and Arabs. Samah was visiting London in association with Oasis of Peace UK. In their conversation, they discussed the…

Lord Turnberg meets Israel’s leading disability non-profit

Lord Turnberg and Bob Blackman MP meeting Beit Issie Shapiro CEO Ahmir Lerner, UK Friends of BIS Chair Laura Weller, Director Nikki Leviner and Board Member Michal Cohen-Sagi LFI parliamentary supporter Lord Turnberg has today met with representatives from Beit Issie Shapiro, Israel’s leading non-profit organisation which champions the rights, opportunities and services for people with…

Lord Turnberg discusses Iran’s terrorist influence in Lords debate

LFI parliamentary supporter Lord Turnberg In today's House of Lords question on Palestinian civilian casualties, LFI parliamentary supporter Lord Turnberg reminded colleagues of the malign influence of Iran as a barrier to peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly through the funding of terrorist groups like Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Hezbollah. He asked: "My Lords, it is…

Keir Starmer welcomes Israeli president Herzog to London

Labour leader Keir Starmer meets Israeli president Isaac Herzog Labour leader Keir Starmer has today met with Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who have arrived in London to represent Israel at the coronation ceremony for King Charles III. In a meeting this afternoon, the pair discussed a number of issues including Labour’s commitment to strong UK-Israeli relations and…

Analysis: IRGC tightens grip on Iran’s economy amid new UK assassination plots warning

IRGC Parade in Tehran > YPA, CC-BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – Tehran’s much-feared ideological army – has effectively taken charge of the Iranian economy, secret documents published last weekend indicate. The revelations – published by the Sunday Times – come amid warnings about IRGC assassination plots in Britain and its efforts…

LFI parliamentarians attend briefing on Middle East security situation

Briefing on security situation in the Middle East This afternoon, a number of LFI parliamentarians joined a Britain-Israel APPG briefing from Tamir Hayman, managing director of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), on the security situation in the Middle East, including the threat posed by Iran and the domestic situation in Israel.

LFI parliamentarians push govt on peacebuilding and IRGC at FCDO Orals

At today's Foreign Office Questions session, LFI parliamentarians questioned the government on a number of issues relating to Israel and the Middle East. Shadow Tech Minister and LFI parliamentary supporter Alex Davies-Jones MP Shadow Tech Minister and LFI parliamentary supporter Alex Davies-Jones MP asked what work the Foreign Office was doing to encourage the use of innovative…

Shadow Chancellor will learn from Israel’s “economic miracle”

Shadow Chancellor and LFI vice-chair Rachel Reeves MP Shadow Chancellor and LFI vice-chair Rachel Reeves MP yesterday pledged that a Labour government would look to the example of Israel's "economic miracle" as an alternative to the Conservatives' "managed decline". Speaking at the United Jewish Israel Appeal Israel 75 business breakfast event, Reeves said that "Israel's lesson is instructive"…

Labour pushes government to support peace process in Lords debate

LFI parliamentary supporter and Shadow FCDO Lords spokesperson Lord Collins of Highbury Labour's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Spokesperson in the House of Lords, Lord Collins of Highbury, has today urged the government to do more to support the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in the debate following a government statement on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories in…