Seven Labour parliamentarians have today signed a cross-party letter to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss urging the UK government to give “urgent, meaningful support to peacebuilding projects that can bring together Israelis and Palestinians, most especially the youngest citizens.” The letter continues: “There has been a failure by the international community Read more…
Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe MP has today written to Home Secretary Priti Patel to express his “deep concern” about reports that the Home Office intends to deport to Rwanda a former Iranian police commander who had to flee for refusing orders to shoot protestors in 2019. Noting Read more…
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 Read more…
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for Politics Home. Click here to read the original. 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 Labour Read more…
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 Read more…
LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay has today met with a delegation of local government politicians from Israel’s mixed cities, including Haifa and Ramla, as part of a trip organised by the Abraham Initiatives. Baroness Ramsay was briefed on the ongoing Shared Cities Initiative and developments since last May’s inter-communal tensions Read more…
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 longstanding ties Read more…
Shadow Health Secretary and LFI Parliamentary Supporter Wes Streeting MP has written the below article for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. As the person hoping to become Britain’s next Health Secretary, I don’t mind admitting that the scale of the challenge facing our health service can be daunting. Read more…
What’s happening The shadow health and social care secretary is visiting Israel this week with LFI. Wes Streeting, a rising star in the party who was first elected to parliament in 2015, is being accompanied by LFI chair Steve McCabe on a delegation primarily focused on Israel’s health tech and Read more…
Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe MP and parliamentary supporter Christian Wakeford MP have written the below article for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Standing in the former synagogue in the rural Polish town of Dabrowa Tarnowska, it is difficult to imagine that this town once Read more…
The UK Labour Party has this week hosted nine staffers from the Israeli Labor Party, including deputy mayor of Tel Aviv Chen Arieli and Havoda chief executive Nir Rosen. The group met with Labour leader Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner, were hosted for dinner by Shadow Health Secretary Read more…
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP and LFI parliamentary supporter Christian Wakeford MP have this week joined the March of the Living 2022, 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…