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LFI and CFI chairs: Iranian terror is a clear and present danger to the UK

Posted 13 February, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP and CFI chair Stephen Crabb MP have written the below article for the Daily Telegraph. Click here to read the original. LFI chair Steve McCabe MP. David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0. As it clings on to power with ever greater desperation, deploying unimaginable violence against its own citizens for daring to call for…

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Largest LFI delegation in a decade meets President Herzog

Posted 7 February, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories
The biggest Labour Friends of Israel delegation in more than a decade this week met with the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog. The delegation also met with Israeli Labor party leader Merav Michaeli; Tzachi Hanegbi, the head of the National Security Council; and the Palestinian Authority’s deputy foreign minister Amal Jadou. LFI chair Steve McCabe led the parliamentary delegation which…

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Labour MPs push Security Minister to be tougher on Iran at Home Office Questions

Posted 6 February, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Labour Party, Middle East, News
LFI parliamentary supporter Virendra Sharma At Home Office Questions today, two Labour MPs pushed the government to take a tougher stance against the operation of Iranian agents in the UK, in particular the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the proscription of which is a longstanding LFI policy goal. LFI parliamentary supporter Virendra Sharma MP asked: It has been…

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LFI chairs write to Israeli Ambassador on new government ministers

Posted 19 January, 2023 in Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Today, LFI chair Steve McCabe MP and LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay have written to the Israeli Ambassador, Tzipi Hotovely, to express their concern about the appointment of certain ministers to the new coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu.   In the letter, Steve and Meta make clear that their support for Israel “goes beyond…

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Analysis: Tehran executes British national as Labour calls for tougher action

Posted 18 January, 2023 in Analysis, Iran, Labour Party, Middle East, News
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. Labour came out in support of proscribing the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps this week, as the Iranian regime continues its attempts to crush protestors. What happened On Saturday, Iran announced that it had executed a dual Iranian-British national, Ali Reza Akbari, who had previously served a deputy defence…

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LFI parliamentary supporter Kim Leadbeater writes to PM on coexistence fund

Posted 17 January, 2023 in Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI parliamentary supporter Kim Leadbeater has today written to prime minister Rishi Sunak to push him to pledge UK participation in the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, a longstanding LFI campaign goal. The letter referenced Sunak's comments to Conservative Friends of Israel in December 2022, in which he committed to "explore with our U.S. allies joining…

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Labour backs IRGC proscription for “maximum pressure” on Iran

Posted 12 January, 2023 in Iran, Labour Party, Middle East, News
At a backbench business debate on the treatment of protestors in Iran yesterday, Labour's shadow minister for the Middle East, Bambos Charalambous MP, called for a "coordinated international approach" to deal with the Iranian regime that would require "maximum pressure" to succeed. In his comments, Charalambous said that a "coordinated international approach to sanctions" was needed…

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Labour MPs raise threat from Iran

Posted 12 January, 2023 in Antisemitism, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Peace process
A number of LFI MPs and their colleagues have today used a backbench business debate in the House of Commons on the treatment of protestors in Iran to push the government to adopt a more comprehensive strategy towards Iran. In the debate, LFI vice-chair John Spellar MP twice repeated LFI's longstanding policy ask of proscribing the…

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LFI partners with JLM at one day conference

Posted 8 January, 2023 in Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel was delighted today to partner with the Jewish Labour Movement to organise a series of sessions on Israel and the Middle East as part of their one-day conference. First up was a fascinating discussion between Dame Louise Ellman and Labour's shadow Middle East minister Bambos Charalambous, in which he committed Labour to…

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