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LFI parliamentarians take part in debates on Palestinian human rights

Posted 20 April, 2023 in Hamas, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI parliamentarians have today taken part in two parliamentary debates on human rights for Palestinians. LFI chair Steve McCabe MP LFI chair Steve McCabe MP spoke at length during the debate, in which he highlighted the dire human rights records of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza, respectively. McCabe set out how "the…

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LFI parliamentarians support cross-party letter calling for IRGC proscription

Posted 19 April, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Labour Party, Middle East, News
LFI chair Steve McCabe in emotional embrace with British-Iranian hunger striker Vahid Beheshti LFI chair Steve McCabe MP and a number of LFI parliamentarians have signed a cross-party letter calling on the government to finally proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation. Other signatories included LFI vice-chairs Diana Johnson MP, Sharon Hodgson MP…

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LFI vice-chair: Labour would use lessons from Northern Ireland to build trust in Israel-Palestine

Posted 12 April, 2023 in Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell MP has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell MP As President Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland this week reminds us, the Good Friday Agreement is rightly seen as a model – and source of hope – for conflict-resolution throughout the world. But one aspect of…

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In Brief: Lammy sets out foreign policy framework for Labour government

Posted 28 March, 2023 in Analysis, Iran, Labour Party, Middle East
David Lammy > David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy will seek to ‘retool’ Britain’s foreign policy in order build prosperity for working people under a prospective Labour government. As part of a series of proposals set out in a pamphlet for the Fabian Society, Lammy states that Foreign Office under…

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LFI parliamentarians push govt for UK leadership on peace process

Posted 23 March, 2023 in Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
At today's Urgent Question on talks to de-escalate the violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, LFI parliamentarians pushed the UK government to demonstrate leadership to bring Israel and the Palestinians together in a peace process, with the goal of a negotiated two-state solution. LFI vice-chair Diana Johnson MP LFI vice-chair Dame Diana Johnson MP used…

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Christian Wakeford pushes government on Iranian front organisations and IRGC

Posted 20 March, 2023 in Iran, Labour Party, Middle East, News
  LFI parliamentary supporter Christian Wakeford MP LFI parliamentary supporter Christian Wakeford has today used Home Office Questions to highlight the Iranian regime's use of front organisations in the UK, and once again to urge the government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Tehran's ideological terror army - a longstanding LFI campaign goal. He asked: Reports in…

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Labour Friends of Israel: NPF Consultation Submission 

Posted 16 March, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
The below is Labour Friends of Israel's 2023 National Policy Forum submission, to the 'Britain in the world' commission. Labour Friends of Israel: NPF Consultation Submission  About LFI Established in 1957, Labour Friends of Israel campaigns for a negotiated two-state solution for two peoples; with Israel safe, secure and recognised within its borders; living alongside a…

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LFI parliamentarians push the government to keep its Middle East promises

Posted 14 March, 2023 in Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Today's FCDO orals session saw LFI parliamentarians push the government on a number of policy issues. LFI parliamentary supporter and former LFI chair Andrew Gwynne MP asked the foreign secretary about UK support for the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, noting that it is now five years since the UK government expressed its support for the…

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Labour reiterates support for coexistence fund in Lords debate

Posted 7 March, 2023 in Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  LFI parliamentary supporter Lord Collins The Labour frontbench has today reiterated the party's support for UK involvement in the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, a longstanding LFI campaign goal. Responding to a debate in the House of Lords on Israeli-Palestinian peace, Labour's Lords FCDO spokesperson Lord Collins highlighted the importance of "economic development and supporting people-to-people coexistence…

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LFI peers take part in Israeli-Palestinian peace debate

Posted 7 March, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
A number of LFI peers have this evening taken part in a debate on 'calming the violence and build a lasting peace between the government of Israel and the Palestinian people' in the House of Lords. LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay reminded colleagues of how Iran's support for terrorism in the region…

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