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LFI vice-chair: Labor’s ‘pink-collar revolution’ offers a vision for feminist politics in the 2020s

Posted 23 March, 2021 in Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News
Merav Michaeli. Photo: Ron Kedmi, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Labour Friends of Israel vice-chair Rosie Cooper MP has written for LabourList. Click here to read the original. UK Labour can learn from the example of Merav Michaeli, new leader of Israel's Labor Party The challenges facing Israel’s Labor Party will sound all too familiar to all of…

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LFI Chair: We must suspend aid that finances hate-filled curriculum

Posted 17 February, 2021 in Coexistence, Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
Image: IMPACT-se Labour Friends of Israel Chair Steve McCabe MP has written for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. Britain is a long-standing advocate of  a two-state solution, but its funding for these lessons in hate undermines this. We should support efforts to bring about peace, reconciliation and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. Instead, UK aid…

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Upcoming Webinar – Israel’s fourth election in two years: A discussion with David Horovitz

Posted 16 February, 2021 in Israel, Israeli Politics, News
  Labour Friends of Israel are delighted to be hosting a webinar on the upcoming Israeli election with David Horovitz, founding editor of the Times of Israel, on Wednesday 10 March 7:00-8:00pm. On March 23 Israelis will head to the polls for their fourth general election in less than two years. With big issues from the pandemic to…

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LFI officers speak in Holocaust Memorial Day Debate

Posted 3 February, 2021 in Antisemitism, Israel, News
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP and LFI Parliamentary Officers took part in a debate marking Holocaust Memorial Day in the House of Commons on Thursday 28 January. This annual debate is an opportunity for Parliamentarians from across the House to unite in remembering the victims, honouring survivors, and remembering where antisemitism, racism and hate can…

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LFI Director: How the British left can learn from Biden and Harris

Posted 2 February, 2021 in Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Photo: Adam Schulz, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons Labour Friends of Israel Director Michael Rubin has written for LabourList, click here to read the original. The inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris was a tremendous day for the world. Donald Trump was a disaster, not just for America, but globally. His vile, divisive and racist politics…

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LFI Chair Steve McCabe MP Speaks in Parliamentary Global Britain Debate

Posted 12 January, 2021 in Coexistence, Iran, News
On Monday 11 January LFI Chair Steve McCabe spoke during a Global Britain debate which took place in the main chamber at the House of Commons. Steve urged the Government to support the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. Steve said the Fund, which has been pioneered by the Alliance for Middle East Peace and will provide support for non-governmental organisations and…

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LFI Join UK–Israel Knesset Friendship Group for Chanukah Candle Lighting Event

Posted 16 December, 2020 in Israel, News
On Tuesday 15 December, LFI parliamentarians joined members of the UK-Israel Knesset Friendship Group for a special cross-party Zoom event in which candles were lit for the sixth night of Chanukah. Before the candle lighting ceremony, the event heard comments from former Attorney General and former Deputy President of the Supreme Court Elyakim Rubinstein about the…

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