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Labour, Israel & Palestine: Lessons from the Blair-Brown Years

Posted 19 September, 2024 in Analysis, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Today, LFI publishes a new paper: Labour, Israel & Palestine: Lessons from the Blair-Brown years.  Authored by Dr Toby Greene, the paper analyses the context and approach taken by the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and outlines the lessons that can be learnt for our new Labour government.   The Israeli-Palestinian arena presents a crisis…

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Home Secretary will use “full force of law” against Hamas and Hezbollah supporters

Posted 18 September, 2024 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Labour Party, News
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper MP Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told Community Security Trust’s (CST) annual business lunch that she will use the “full force of the law” against those “who use conflict in the Middle East as a pretext to attack communities here in Britain” yesterday. Cooper stressed “there is no place for the glorification of terrorism or…

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LFI director: A brazen defiance deserving western wrath

Posted 17 September, 2024 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for JewishNews. Click here to read the original. IRGC Parade in Tehran > YPA, CC-BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The long-expected news that Iran has exported more than 200 ballistic missiles to bolster Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has rightly earned a swift and strong condemnation – and tough…

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Security Minister: As security minister I can assure you – British Jews are not alone

Posted 17 September, 2024 in Antisemitism, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, News
Security Minister Dan Jarvis MP has written the below article for JewishNews. Click here to read the original. Security Minister Dan Jarvis MP Up and down the UK, communities are immeasurably stronger for having a proud Jewish contingent. From politics to sport, from the arts to business, from media to medicine, British Jews have made – and continue…

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Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis: Iran’s “Axis of Resistance”

Posted 12 September, 2024 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Middle East, News
The war launched by Hamas on 7 October has brought about an unprecedented level of coordination between Iran’s proxies, forcing Israel to fight a multi-front conflict for close to a year.   In this paper, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis: Iran’s “Axis of Resistance”, we outline the origins of, and explain the threat posed by, Iranian…

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Labour parliamentarians attend LFI briefing on Iran

Posted 11 September, 2024 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, Middle East, News
This afternoon, LFI hosted a briefing on Iran’s malign activities in the Middle East and increasing support for Putin’s war on Ukraine. Chaired by Matthew Patrick MP, the panel included Kasra Aarabi, director of IRGC research at United Against Nuclear Iran, Jemima Shelley, senior analyst at the Tony Blair Institute, and Toby Greene, visiting fellow…

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UK and US stand firm against threat from Iran

Posted 10 September, 2024 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
This week, Foreign Secretary David Lammy and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken held a joint press conference on a number of international challenges facing the two countries, including the situation in the Middle East. During the conference, Lammy stressed the UK's commitment to brokering peace in the Middle East. He highlighted ongoing efforts for…

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Labour MPs raise constituents’ concerns over partial arms sales suspension

Posted 6 September, 2024 in Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, News
David Pinto Duschinsky MP, Sarah Sackman MP, Dan Tomlinson MP and Christian Wakeford MP Several Labour MPs have raised their constituents' concerns with the government following this week's announcement that the government would suspend some arms export licences to Israel. The three MPs representing Barnet in north London - David Pinto-Duschinsky, Sarah Sackman and Dan…

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LFI director: Labour’s decision will embolden Tehran to pursue its terrorist goals

Posted 4 September, 2024 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, Middle East, News
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for The Times. Click here to read the original. Since the 7 October Hamas atrocities, Labour has steadfastly repeated its belief in Israel’s right to defend itself.  It has been right to do so, but the government’s decision this week to suspend some arms sales to…

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