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LFI Lords chair: We must reform our sanctions regime to stop human rights abuses in Iran

Posted 30 May, 2022 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East, News
LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. The current talks in Vienna may help to put the brakes on Iran’s accelerating nuclear programme, but they will almost certainly do nothing to stop Tehran’s ballistic missile programme or its support for terror groups that have caused chaos…

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LFI chair: Curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions should not deter the UK from taking a tougher stance on Tehran

Posted 30 May, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for Politics Home. Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Whatever the eventual outcome of the talks surrounding Iran’s nuclear programme, one thing is clear: we must urgently develop a comprehensive approach to tackling the multi-faceted challenges posed by Tehran. As…

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Iran: A Darkening Picture at Home and Abroad

Posted 30 May, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
View a PDF copy of our new pamphlet: Iran A Darkening Picture at Home and Abroad Britain must urgently develop a comprehensive approach to tackling the multi-faceted threat posed by Iran, argues a new report published by Labour Friends of Israel.     Whatever the outcome of the Vienna talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme, major…

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In Brief: Turkish FM visits Israel as Jerusalem-Ankara relations warm

Posted 24 May, 2022 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Peace process
Israeli and Turkish flags > Newtimes.az, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will visit Israel this week in the latest sign of improving relations between the Jewish state and Turkey. One of the key issues on the agenda is likely to be energy cooperation, following the discovery of natural gas in the eastern…

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In Brief: Iran pledges to ‘avenge’ assassinated Revolutionary Guards colonel

Posted 24 May, 2022 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
IRGC Parade in Tehran. Image Credit: YPA, CC-BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi has sworn to avenge the killing of Hassan Sayad Khodayari, a colonel in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, in Tehran on Sunday. Khodayari was shot five times outside his home by two assailants on motorcycles, according to Iranian state media. Tehran has…

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In Brief: Hope for normalisation as part of US-brokered Egypt-Saudi deal

Posted 24 May, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Straits of Tiran > US Central Intelligence Agency, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Biden administration is reportedly brokering a deal to transfer two Red Sea islands from Egypt to Saudi Arabia that could include steps to normalise Saudi-Israeli ties. The treaty would return control of Tiran and Sanafir, which have been leased by Egypt since the…

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LFI chair writes to Foreign Secretary on Iraqi anti-Israel legislation

Posted 24 May, 2022 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, News
Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has today called on Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to demand Iraq scrap legislation that would impose the death penalty for "contact and communication of any kind" with Israel and Israelis. Instead, he called for the Foreign Secretary to use the UK's "deep and…

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Steps to a two state solution: Support free elections in the West Bank and Gaza

Posted 24 May, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Twenty: Support free elections in the West Bank and Gaza In 2005, Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian National Authority with a four-year term. The election, which Abbas won by a landslide, was observed by a number of international observers, and the…

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In Brief: Initial results weaken Hezbollah, strengthen reformists in Lebanon

Posted 17 May, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Hezbollah, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Peace process
Protests in Lebanon > RomanDeckert, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Elections held in Lebanon last weekend appear to have dealt a blow to the biggest bloc, led by the Iran-backed Shia terrorist group Hezbollah, according to provisional results. Meanwhile, reformists appeared to have been boosted in the provisional results. Turnout was low in the Sunday elections, the…

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Analysis: Anger after death of “the voice of Palestine”

Posted 17 May, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Pictures of Shireen Abu Akleh in Jerusalem > Osps7, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Palestinians marked “Nakba Day” on Sunday – an annual commemoration of the “catastrophe” of the establishment of the State of Israel – amid high tensions following weeks of clashes at the Temple Mount/Al Aqsa compound and the killing of Al Jazeera…

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