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LFI Focus: Israel heads to the polls (again)

Posted 1 June, 2019 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, LFI Focus
LFI Focus provides a periodic analysis on Israel-Palestine, providing an in-depth view of the issues that affect the region. Image: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This edition focuses on the fall-out from Israel's election in September 2019. You can read it here. There is also an accompanying analysis of the competing parties. Click here to…

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LFI supports new grassroots initiative

Posted 28 May, 2019 in Coexistence, Labour Party, News, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel is launching ‘Speakers for a Two-State Solution’, a grassroots initiative for activists to lead discussions in the Labour party and centre-left groups about how to bring a peaceful end to the conflict in the Middle East. LFI is providing training and resources to ensure activists feel confident in making the case that…

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LFI chair vows to lead battle against Labour antisemitism

Posted 3 December, 2018 in Antisemitism, Labour Party, News
LFI’s chair Joan Ryan vowed to lead the fight against antisemitism in the Labour party “whatever the personal cost” in her speech to our annual lunch on Tuesday. In a strongly worded address, Ms Ryan also pledged to stand up to “the politics of hatred and division” and defend “the values of equality, respect and tolerance”. Over…

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Joan Ryan speech to LFI Annual Lunch 2018

Posted 27 November, 2018 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  *** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** Rt Hon Joan Ryan MP Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch 2018   Chief Rabbi, Ambassador Regev, friends Thank you to all of you for being here today. In particular, I want to thank Sir David Garrard and Isaac Kaye, our long-standing lunch sponsors. I also want to thank all of my parliamentary colleagues who have joined us; Our chair in…

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Huge turnout for LFI conference reception

Posted 26 September, 2018 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel held its biggest ever reception at Labour party conference in Liverpool this week. Over 400 delegates attended a packed event addressed by deputy leader Tom Watson, Israeli Labor MK Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin, Ambassador Mark Regev, and LFI chair Joan Ryan. In a stirring address, Mr Watson declared: "I am genuinely proud of each and…

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Analysis: Corbyn under fire over “despicable” comments about Zionists

Posted 29 August, 2018 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Labour Party
Photo: Rwendland, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Jeremy Corbyn is involved in a fresh row over antisemitism in the Labour party following the discovery of a 2013 speech in which he claimed that Zionists do not understand “English irony”. The Labour leader was speaking at a conference endorsed and advertised online by Hamas’ military wing and which…

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Analysis: Corbyn’s Hamas links under scrutiny

Posted 22 August, 2018 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Labour Party
Jeremy Corbyn’s past links with Hamas have come under intense scrutiny this week, as the fallout from Labour’s failure to adopt the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-semitism continues. On Monday, it was revealed that the Labour leader had chaired a panel at a conference in Doha in 2012 which was also attended by…

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LFI leads calls for Corbyn to apologise over Munich terror ceremony

Posted 15 August, 2018 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News
LFI chair Joan Ryan wrote this week to Jeremy Corbyn asking him to explain his apparent decision to honour the terrorists behind the Munich massacre during a 2014 visit to Tunisia. Ms Ryan also called upon the Labour leader to apologise to the bereaved families of the 11 Israeli athletes who were brutally murdered by the Palestinian terrorist…

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