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Analysis: The tyrant who came in from the cold

Posted 27 October, 2021 in Analysis, Iran, Israel, Middle East
Bashar al-Assad > Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Bashar al-Assad’s international isolation appears to be coming to an end as Arab capitals make moves to bring the Syrian dictator in from the diplomatic cold. Political, strategic and economic imperatives have caused governments in the region – including some which previously aided the rebels attempting to…

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LFI director: Labour must craft a new approach to promoting peace in the Middle East

Posted 22 October, 2021 in Coexistence, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel director Michael Rubin has written the below article for the Labour Foreign Policy Group. Click here to read the original. In the months since President Biden’s inauguration, we’ve already begun to see the difference in his administration’s approach to international affairs. “America First” is out, multilateral engagement is in. Biden is clear that there…

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In Brief: Hezbollah boasts of 100,000 fighters amid Lebanese unrest

Posted 21 October, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hezbollah, Incitement, Iran, Israel, Middle East
Hezbollah fighters at a ceremony. Image Credit: Ali Khamenei, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The leader of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group, Hassan Nasrallah, boasted this week that he commands 100,000 fighters. Experts estimate that the claimed figure, which exceeds the size of Lebanon’s army, is almost certainly an exaggeration of the more likely figure of…

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Westminster Hall Debate on Iran’s compliance with the JCPOA

Posted 21 October, 2021 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP. In the first week back after the conference recess, parliamentarians debated Iran’s compliance with the JCPOA nuclear deal in a Westminster Hall Debate organised by Stephen Crabb. A refresher The JCPOA, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, was agreed in 2015 after some 20 months of negotiations. Signed in Vienna, the…

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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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In Brief: Iranian supreme leader’s representative calls for Israel’s destruction

Posted 5 October, 2021 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Iran, Israel, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Lotfallah Dezhkam, the representative of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Fars province, called for the destruction of Israel in a sermon in Shiraz last week. The clerical firebrand declared, “the global arrogance led by America with complicity of Israel seeks to delay the realisation of [...] the destruction…

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In Brief: Israeli ministers meet with PA to “keep two-state solution alive”

Posted 5 October, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Nitzan Horowitz > Heinrich-Boll-Stiftung, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Two Israeli ministers from the left-wing Meretz party, Nitzan Horowitz and Isawi Frej, met with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday night. Health minister Horowitz said his party was working to “keep the two-state solution alive” within Israel’s new coalition government, which is led by right-wing…

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In Brief: Iraqi notables call for diplomatic normalisation with Israel

Posted 5 October, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Iraq base map > ERCC Portal, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. More than 300 prominent Iraqis made an unprecedented plea for regional reconciliation on 25 September, as they called for their country to normalise ties with Israel. “We demand full diplomatic relations with the State of Israel […] and a new policy of normalisation based on…

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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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