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Labour Friends of Israel at Labour Party Conference 2013, Brighton

Posted 24 September, 2013 in Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband, Israeli MK Hilik Bar, Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander, Israeli Ambassador Daniel Taub and LFI Chair Anne McGuire addressed the 2013 LFI Annual Reception; and, with BICOM, we held a panel debate how the left can best support a two state solution  Addressing the LFI Annual Reception at Labour Party…

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LFI events at Labour Party Conference on Tuesday 24 September

Posted 23 August, 2013 in Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
At this year’s Labour Party Conference in Brighton we are delighted to be hosting special Israeli guest Labor party Member of the Knesset Hilik Bar. Hilik is Secretary General of the Israeli Labor Party, Deputy Speaker the Knesset (Israeli parliament), and leads the Israeli all party group for a two state solution. Photo: לואיז גרין, CC BY-SA…

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Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls visits Israel and the Palestinian territories and calls for closer economic ties and progress towards peace

Posted 18 July, 2013 in Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Shadow Chancellor Rt Hon Ed Balls MP visited Israel and the Palestinian territories this week with Labour Friends of Israel, and called for the economic partnership between Britain and Israel to be celebrated, and for Israelis and Palestinians to develop closer business links with each other. Ed Balls and Bashar Masri at Rawabi Describing the visit…

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Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander asserts that Israel should be celebrated; calls for progress towards two states and denounces boycotts

Posted 2 July, 2013 in Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Shadow Foreign Secretary Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP addressed the Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch on Tuesday (2 July) and asserted that Israel’s existence should be celebrated as a progressive cause. He denounced the boycott movement as an obstacle to a peaceful two state solution, and said that we should be seeking stronger ties…

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Shadow ministers call for the UK to follow Israel’s example to encourage hi-tech innovation and argue for closer UK-Israel business relations

Posted 4 June, 2013 in Israel, Labour Party, News
Shadow ministers, Labour Friends of Israel and Labour’s NG Network held the first ever Google Hangout live link between tech experts in the UK and Israel on Tuesday (4 June). Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne, former innovation minister David Lammy and senior businessman Sir Trevor Chinn…

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Shadow International Development Secretary Ivan Lewis leads LFI delegation to Israel and the Palestinian Territories

Posted 27 May, 2013 in Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Delegates at Sderot police station, where rockets fired at Sderot from Gaza are stored Shadow International Development Secretary Ivan Lewis MP led, last week, a delegation to Israel and the Palestinian territories. Ivan Lewis was joined by Derek Twigg MP and LFI Vice Chair and International Development Committee member Michael McCann MP on the visit. The…

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LFI Vice Chair Michael McCann MP calls on the EU to proscribe Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation

Posted 9 May, 2013 in Antisemitism, Hezbollah, Iran, News
LFI Vice Chair Michael McCann MP led an important House of Commons debate on 9 May to call for Hezbollah to be designated as a terrorist organisation by the EU, a policy which is supported by both Shadow Foreign Secretary Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP and Foreign Secretary William Hague. Please read Michael's full speech below,…

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Labour Party Leader and Shadow Foreign Secretary say they are proud friends of Israel

Posted 11 April, 2013 in Israel, Labour Party, News
Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband has said that he is proud to be a friend and supporter of Israel, and has called for zero tolerance for those who question Israel's right to exist or who advocate boycotts of Israel; a month earlier Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander spoke of his admiration for Israel and the…

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LFI Vice Chair Michael Dugher MP warns of anti-Semitism dressed up as anti-Zionism

Posted 7 February, 2013 in Antisemitism, Israel, News
Michael Dugher MP has written an article for the The Jewish Cronicle about anti-Semitism being dressed up as anti-Zionism.  You can read it here: We still need to speak up on ‘mainstream’ anti-Semitism In 2006, the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism warned that antisemitism was creeping into the mainstream with traditional antisemitic themes – dressed…

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