LIVE STREAM: Labour Party Leadership Hustings
Watch the live stream of the Labour Party Leadership Hustings at JW3 tonight in association with JW3, the Jewish Chronicle, and the Jewish Labour Movement.
Labour Leadership Hustings
Labour Leadership Hustings We are delighted to invite you to a special LFI Labour Leadership hustings with the JC, JLM and JW3 on Monday 20 July, 8.30pm at JW3. All four candidates for the party’s leadership – Andy Burnham MP, Yvette Cooper MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP and Liz Kendall MP Read more…
Why Labour lost the community’s support, and how we’ll try to win it back- by Jennifer Gerber, Director of LFI
Hendon was the number three seat on Labour’s target list going into last week’s general election. But, despite needing a swing of only 0.2 per cent, Andrew Dismore, the unimpeachably pro-Israel former Labour MP who represented the seat prior to 2010, was defeated. A similar sad story was repeated elsewhere, Read more…
LFI vice chair ,Michael Dugher MP, gives keynote speech at ‘We Believe in Israel’ conference
Chief Rabbi, my Lords, Ladies and Gentleman. Thank you for inviting me here this morning. It’s great to see so many old friends. To meet new friends. It’s also good to be here with Michael Gove. We sit on opposite benches of the House of Commons. In the forthcoming general Read more…
The British left needs to be a bridge between progressives- by Jennifer Gerber, Director of LFI
Published by Progress on 19 March In its early days, many people on the British left offered the young, embattled state of Israel their staunch support: Harold Wilson, Ian Mikado, Barbara Castle, Richard Crossman and Eric Heffer were all early supporters of Labour Friends of Israel. That support stemmed not Read more…
Likud’s victory is depressing – but Israel is a liberal and progressive country. By Jennifer Gerber, Director of LFI
Published by Labourlist on 18 March Yesterday millions of Israelis voted in the country’s general election. It followed a closely fought campaign, covered by a media which pulls no punches and contested by parties representing leftwing secularists, rightwing Haredim, Islamist Arabs and every point in between. Sadly, that election appears Read more…
No more villains and victims- by Michael McCann MP, vice-chair of LFI
Published by the Times of Israel on 5th March — Six months ago Operation Protective Edge came to an end, bringing to a close 51 days of bloody fighting between the IDF and Hamas. In Britain, the war provoked strong reactions and it was deeply divisive. Some argued that the Read more…
Britain can prevent another war in Gaza- by Andrew Dismore AM, PPC for Hendon
Published by Progress on 27rd February 2015 — Last summer’s war in Gaza caused a great deal of division as passions ran high about both Hamas’ rocket bombardment against Israel and the nature of Israel’s response. I was pleased, therefore, to see Labour Friends of Israel this week launch a Read more…
How Britain can help prevent another Gaza war- by Michael McCann MP, Vice Chair of LFI
Published by LeftFootForward on 23 February 2015 — It is time for Britain to make a pro-active contribution to halt Hamas’ vicious cycle of violence and secure peace for Palestinians and Israelis On 1 December 2014 my colleague Grahame Morris led a Westminster Hall debate on ending the conflict in Read more…
Disarm in return for development to end this conflict- Dame Anne McGuire MP, Chair of LFI
Published by the Jewish News on 19 February 2015 — Next Wednesday, Michael McCann and other colleagues in Labour Friends of Israel will lead a Westminster Hall debate on the contribution the UK can make to preventing further conflict in Gaza. Through our ‘Stop the war’ campaign, we are determined Read more…
Stop the War campaign – prevent another war in Gaza
February marked the six-month anniversary of the ceasefire which brought last summer’s war in Gaza to a close. It was a conflict which brought a huge amount of suffering to the peoples of Israel and Gaza. But, just as it has done on three occasions over the past six years, Read more…
Good news: the Israeli Labor Party is back- by Dame Anne McGuire MP
Dame Anne McGuire MP, Chair of LFI writes why the Israeli Labor party is back in the game. Article published by Left Foot Forward on 20 January 2015 Isaac Herzog has made two important shifts which may boost Labor’s chances of forming the next government. It has been a difficult 10 Read more…