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LFI director reflects on Labour conference

Posted 6 October, 2021 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel director Michael Rubin has written the below article for Fathom. Click here to read the original. Six years ago, at his first conference as Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn attended the Labour Friends of Israel reception and managed the remarkable feat of addressing attendees without uttering the name of the Jewish state. Corbyn’s behaviour underlined the…

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Analysis: Capacity crowd as LFI makes full return to Labour conference

Posted 5 October, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East
Labour Friends of Israel fully returned to Labour party conference for the first time since 2018 last week, as thousands of parliamentarians, delegates and members descended on Brighton for the first physical conference of Keir Starmer’s leadership. Main takeaways The 2021 conference was a huge success for LFI, with an overwhelmingly positive response on our stall and…

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LFI back with a bang at packed conference reception

Posted 28 September, 2021 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
The highlight of LFI’s 2021 Labour conference was the annual reception, which took place on Tuesday night. Turnout for the reception overwhelmed all expectations, with some 500 people attending the two-hour event. Speakers to the capacity crowd included LFI chair Steve McCabe, Dame Louise Ellman, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy, shadow Middle East minister…

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Dame Louise Ellman returns to the Labour Party

Posted 27 September, 2021 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
Dame Louise Ellman at LFI conference stall > Ian Vogler photography, Jewish News. The highlight of Labour's 2021 conference was the return of Dame Louise Ellman to Labour. Dame Louise, a former LFI chair and MP for Liverpool Riverside, resigned from Labour in October 2019 in protest at the culture of antisemitism that had developed under the leadership…

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LFI stall overwhelmingly welcomed back to Labour conference

Posted 26 September, 2021 in Antisemitism, Labour Party, News
Throughout Labour's 2021 conference, Labour Friends of Israel had a stall exhibit as one of the many exhibitors present. This was in contrast with previous years like 2018, when LFI did not have a stall presence at conference due to security concerns, after the LFI stall becoming “a magnet for conspiracy theorists” which put “young staff members…

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LFI chair: This is Sir Keir’s chance to show Labour can be a party that Jews can trust

Posted 24 September, 2021 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP. Image Credit: Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Next week, Keir Starmer will have his first real opportunity since becoming Labour leader to address the country as the party…

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LFI director: The Post-Netanyahu Israeli Left

Posted 23 September, 2021 in Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News
Israel's thirty-sixth government. Image Credit: Government Press Office, public domain. Labour Friends of Israel director Michael Rubin has written the below article for ZF Connect. Click here to read the original. If Abraham Lincoln’s Cabinet was famously “a team of rivals”, it is difficult to know how to describe that of Naftali Bennett. While Israel’s highly proportional electoral…

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Chatham House event: The Middle East’s Changing Political Landscape

Posted 14 September, 2021 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
In LFI's new pamphlet, The New Middle East: A Progressive Approach , contributors explored how the Middle East is changing and what a progressive UK foreign policy response might be. In this webinar, a number of the pamphlet authors and Chatham House experts discussed the publication’s main arguments and recommendations. Prof Yossi Mekelberg (Associate Fellow, Chatham…

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In Brief: Lisa Nandy: Labour will always support Israel’s right to self-defence

Posted 8 September, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News
Lisa Nandy. Image Credit: UK Parliament, CC BY 3.0. Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy has said that Labour will “always believe that Israel has the right to defend itself” against attacks. Speaking at an event in Manchester, Nandy also voiced her opposition to a complete ban on weapons sales from the UK to Israel. She said both herself…

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LFI director: What a genuinely progressive approach to the Middle East could look like

Posted 21 July, 2021 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel director Michael Rubin has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. For those of us on the left who support Israel and want to see the forces of peace, progress and moderation advance in the Middle East, the last decade was without doubt a dispiriting one. Benjamin Netanyahu…

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