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LFI Director: My progressive values mean I support Labour — and Israel

Posted 4 September, 2020 in Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories
LFI director Michael Rubin has written in the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to view the original. This week I start as Director of LFI. After five years of Jeremy Corbyn, and 10 years of increasingly right-wing government in Israel, friends of Israel have questioned if they can still find a home in Labour, while progressives have…

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LFI responds to revelations that the government’s PA curriculum review has examined the wrong textbooks

Posted 14 August, 2020 in Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
Image: IMPACT-se LFI has expressed deep concern about the latest revelations concerning a UK government-backed review on incitement to violence in the Palestinian Authority’s school curriculum.   The review appears to have mistakenly studied school books used by Israeli-Arab children, not Palestinian pupils, while three-quarters of the textbooks in an unpublished interim report are…

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Steve McCabe: Under Keir’s new management, Labour can be honest-broker for Israel-Palestine

Posted 30 July, 2020 in Labour Party, News
Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared in the JewishNews. Click here to read the original.  LFI’s meeting last week with Keir Starmer was another demonstration that our party is, as Labour’s leader put it himself, “under new management”. Keir’s acknowledgment that the last five years have been difficult for LFI’s members…

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The best way to oppose Netanyahu is to redouble our efforts on behalf of a two-state solution, says LFI chair Steve McCabe MP

Posted 2 July, 2020 in News
Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons LFI chair Steve McCabe has written in the Jewish Chronicle to oppose any annexation and and setting out five tests for a measured and effective response from the UK. Click here to read the original.  As we approach a possible July announcement, a decision by the Israeli government…

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Labour parliamentarians urge Palestinian economic support package

Posted 2 July, 2020 in News
Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons A group of Labour parliamentarians have written to the foreign secretary urging a "comprehensive, internationally backed, programme of assistance to help stabilise the Palestinian economy" They also urge "medical and humanitarian assistance to help ensure that efforts by Palestinians and Israelis to contain the spread of the virus, in…

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Steve McCabe: How Keir Starmer can forge a new chapter in Labour’s internationalist tradition

Posted 12 May, 2020 in Labour Party, News
LFI chair Steve McCabe has written for Progress on the future of Labour's foreign policy under Keir Starmer. You can read the original here.  Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Keir Starmer’s election as Labour leader has already signalled progress in tackling the scourge of antisemitism and rebuilding our relationship with the Jewish community. The…

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LFI chair welcomes Israeli-Palestinian COVID-19 cooperation

Posted 12 May, 2020 in Coexistence, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories
Speaking in Foreign Office questions, LFI chair Steve McCabe welcomed Israeli-Palestinian cooperation to tackle COVID-19. "I thank the Minister for his comments. Will he join me in welcoming the news that Israel has approved a $230 million advance payment to the Palestinian Authority, alongside coronavirus test kits, intensive care beds, ventilators, drugs and protective equipment? Is…

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