LFI Chair Joan Ryan MP has written to Shadow Cabinet member Richard Burgon MP in response to reported comments in the Daily Mail. You can read the full letter here: Letter from Rt. Hon Joan Ryan MP to Richard Burgon MP

This article originally appeared on JewishNews, you can read it here. The chair of Labour Friends of Israel has told the General Secretary of the Labour Party it is “imperative” that Baroness Royall’s full report on anti-Semitism in the Oxford University Labour Club be published. In a letter to Iain McNicol, Joan Ryan MP says…

Joan Ryan MP, Chair of Labour Friends of Israel said: “We condemn any comparisons between Israel and ISIS. ISIS brutally murders Muslims who do not conform to its twisted ideology, enslaves women and is committing genocide against the Yazidi people. Last month while 200,000 people celebrated Tel Aviv Pride, ISIS continued to throw gay…

This article first appeared in the Jewish Chronicle, you can read it here.  There is nothing illegitimate or antisemitic about criticising the actions of the Israeli government. Millions of Israelis - and Jews in Britain - do it every day. However, for at least the past 40 years, a discourse has existed on the hard left which…

This article first appeared on the Jewish Chronicle, you can read it here.  The inquiry into antisemitism allegations in the Labour Party must make clear where criticism of Israel turns into Jew-hate, its Friends of Israel group has said. In its submission to the Chakrabarti Inquiry, Labour Friends of Israel said that "almost without exception" those suspended…