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LFI Hosts Parliamentary Briefing with ALLMEP

Posted 18 November, 2020 in Coexistence, Israel, News
  On Tuesday November 17th LFI hosted a parliamentary briefing with John Lyndon, Executive Director of ALLMEP, the Alliance for Middle East Peace. ALLMEP is a coalition of over 125 organisations—and tens of thousands of Palestinians and Israelis—building people-to-people cooperation, coexistence, equality, shared society, mutual understanding, and peace among their communities. The briefing was a unique opportunity for parliamentarians…

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Analysis: LFI MPs push for International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Posted 17 November, 2020 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell led a debate in parliament today calling for the British government to support the establishment of an international fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace. The debate is part of a long-running campaign by LFI – ‘For Israel, For Palestine, For Peace’ – to back the fund, which would invest in peacebuilding projects that bring…

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LFI Vice-Chair: ‘Global Britain’ must mean investing in Israeli-Palestinian peace-building

Posted 17 November, 2020 in Coexistence, News, Peace process
David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons LFI vice-chair Diana Johnson MP has written for LabourList, click here to read the original. My fellow Labour Friends of Israel vice-chair Catherine McKinnell has today secured a parliamentary debate on UK support for an international fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace. This debate could not come at a better time. The US…

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LFI secures parliamentary debate in support of coexistence

Posted 13 November, 2020 in News
Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell has secured a debate in parliament on UK support for coexistence projects through an international fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. This is the next stage in LFI's long-running campaign in support of those NGOs that bring ordinary Israelis and Palestinians together in the spirit of…

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LFI Director Michael Rubin Participates in Podcast on the EHRC Report

Posted 11 November, 2020 in Antisemitism, Labour Party, News
LFI Director Michael Rubin was a guest on the Progressive Britain Podcast which discussed the EHRC report into antisemitism in the Labour Party. Michael joined in a discussion with North West Jewish Labour Movement chair, Dena Ryness, Progress director Nathan Yeowell and Progress Campaign Assistant Frankie Grant. For the last five years, Jewish Labour members had been…

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LFI Chair writes to Foreign Secretary re: Iran arms embargo expiry

Posted 19 October, 2020 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, News
Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Steve McCabe MP, Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, has written a letter to the Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab MP, expressing deep concern about the lifting of the UN arms embargo on Iran. In the letter, Steve McCabe expresses his huge disappointment that it has "not been…

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LFI chair urges UK government to take action on PA curriculum

Posted 22 September, 2020 in News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons LFI's chair, Steve McCabe, has written an op-ed for this week's Jewish News in which he urges the government to take action on the Palestinian Authority's school curriculum. The curriculum, introduced in 2017, incites violence and glorifies terrorists. Through the Department for International Development, UK taxpayers’ aid…

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LFI chair: The left’s fixation on Israel has stifled fresh analysis about long-term stability in the Middle East

Posted 10 September, 2020 in Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Peace process
Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons LFI chair Steve McCabe has written for The House, click here to read the original. Relations in the Middle East are shifting. Labour Friends of Israel will help craft a new internationalist approach to the region, while standing up to anti-Semitism in our party Labour Friends of Israel this…

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