LFI parliamentary supporter Lord Turnberg has today met with representatives from Beit Issie Shapiro, Israel’s leading non-profit organisation which champions the rights, opportunities and services for people with disabilities, impacting on half a million people annually. He met with Beit Issie Shapiro CEO Ahmir Lerner, UK Friends of BIS Chair Read more…
In today’s House of Lords question on Palestinian civilian casualties, LFI parliamentary supporter Lord Turnberg reminded colleagues of the malign influence of Iran as a barrier to peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly through the funding of terrorist groups like Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Hezbollah. He asked: “My Lords, Read more…
Labour leader Keir Starmer has today met with Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who have arrived in London to represent Israel at the coronation ceremony for King Charles III. In a meeting this afternoon, the pair discussed a number of issues including Labour’s commitment to strong UK-Israeli relations and the need Read more…
This afternoon, a number of LFI parliamentarians joined a Britain-Israel APPG briefing from Tamir Hayman, managing director of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), on the security situation in the Middle East, including the threat posed by Iran and the domestic situation in Israel.
At today’s Foreign Office Questions session, LFI parliamentarians questioned the government on a number of issues relating to Israel and the Middle East. Shadow Tech Minister and LFI parliamentary supporter Alex Davies-Jones MP asked what work the Foreign Office was doing to encourage the use of innovative tech and AI Read more…
Shadow Chancellor and LFI vice-chair Rachel Reeves MP yesterday pledged that a Labour government would look to the example of Israel’s “economic miracle” as an alternative to the Conservatives’ “managed decline”. Speaking at the United Jewish Israel Appeal Israel 75 business breakfast event, Reeves said that “Israel’s lesson is instructive” and Read more…
Yesterday was Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s independence day. This year marks a particular milestone as Israel celebrates its 75th birthday! Formal celebrations A national ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem led celebrations of yesterday’s anniversary, as government officials, security leaders and other prominent Israelis gathered for a ceremonial torch-lighting honouring citizens for their Read more…
Labour’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Spokesperson in the House of Lords, Lord Collins of Highbury, has today urged the government to do more to support the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in the debate following a government statement on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the House of Lords. Lord Collins, Read more…
LFI vice-chair Sharon Hodgson MP and LFI parliamentary supporter Andrew Gwynne MP have this week joined the March of the Living 2023, an annual Holocaust memorial event that culminates in a march between the site of the Nazi German death camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. The four-day trip Read more…
LFI parliamentarians have today taken part in two parliamentary debates on human rights for Palestinians. LFI chair Steve McCabe MP spoke at length during the debate, in which he highlighted the dire human rights records of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza, respectively. McCabe set Read more…
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP and a number of LFI parliamentarians have signed a cross-party letter calling on the government to finally proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation. Other signatories included LFI vice-chairs Diana Johnson MP, Sharon Hodgson MP and John Spellar MP. The letter Read more…
LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell MP has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. As President Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland this week reminds us, the Good Friday Agreement is rightly seen as a model – and source of hope – for conflict-resolution throughout the world. But Read more…