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In Brief: Paris mayor strips Abbas of honour over Holocaust remarks

Posted 13 September, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Palestinian Territories
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons The Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, stripped Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas of the Grand Vermeil medal after her office said he "justified the extermination of the Jews of Europe" in World War II. Ms Hidalgo, of the Socialist Party’ sent Abbas a letter stating that “the comments you made are contrary…

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In Brief: Palestinians set out terms for agreeing to historic Saudi-Israeli deal

Posted 13 September, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Officials from the Palestinian Authority have demanded hundreds of millions of dollars and more control of land in the West Bank during talks in Riyadh with Saudi counterparts as part of the three-way deal involving the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel. The deal…

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Dover PPC Mike Tapp: Israel needs a revival of the centre-left

Posted 9 August, 2023 in Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
Labour's Parliamentary Candidate for Dover, Mike Tapp, has written the below article about our recent LFI delegation to Israel and Palestine for the Jewish News. Click here to read the original. Labour Friends of Israel delegation; July 2023 I recently had the privilege of joining a Labour Friends of Israel delegation on a visit to Israel and Palestine. Among…

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In Brief: One million Israelis have visited the UAE since the Abraham Accords

Posted 18 July, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Israeli and Emirati students celebrate Hannukah > Sharaka, via Times of Israel One million Israelis have visited the United Arab Emirates since the signing of the 2020 Abraham Accords. Speaking to the Jewish News, Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson Lior Haiat said: “almost one-in-ten Israelis has visited the UAE since the end of 2020”. There are currently more than 200…

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In Brief: Israeli man seriously injured in West Bank terror shooting

Posted 18 July, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
MDA armoured ambulance > Tewfik, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons An Israeli man was shot and seriously wounded in a terror shooting attack in the West Bank on Sunday morning. His two daughters were also lightly hurt in the attack. According to the IDF, a Palestinian gunman opened fire from a passing vehicle at the victim’s car…

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Luciana Berger joins LFI parliamentary candidates delegation in meeting President Herzog

Posted 18 July, 2023 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI PPC delegation meets President Herzog The first Labour Friends of Israel delegation of prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) since 2014 last week met with the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog. What happened The delegation, led by LFI chair Steve McCabe MP and joined by Luciana Berger – who rejoined the Labour party in February this year - included…

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Labour affirms for support Israel’s self-defence and condemns Tel Aviv terror attack

Posted 5 July, 2023 in Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Shadow Middle East Minister and LFI parliamentary supporter Wayne David MP At today's Urgent Question on recent violence in the West Bank, shadow Minister for the Middle East and LFI parliamentary supporter Wayne David MP used his comments to reaffirm Labour's support for Israel's right to defend itself against terrorism, and condemned today's terror attack in…

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In Brief: Palestinian Islamic Jihad chief boasts of presence in West Bank

Posted 4 July, 2023 in Hamas, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Ziyad al-Nakhleh > Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-backed terror group based in Gaza, has boasted in an interview that his group was working to establish cells of fighters in the West Bank. In an interview released on Saturday, Ziad Nakhaleh said that Iran’s head of…

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In Brief: Seven hurt in car ramming Palestinian terror attack in Tel Aviv

Posted 4 July, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
MDA armoured ambulance > Tewfik, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons Israeli medics are responding to reports of a car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday afternoon. The attack took place on Pinkhas Rosen Street in the northeast of the city, in the residential neighbourhood of Neve Dan. Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency ambulance service, said its medics…

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Analysis: Israel launches largest West Bank counter-terror operation in two decades

Posted 4 July, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Israeli troops Jenin in 2002 > IDF Spokesperson's Unit / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israeli forces launched the largest counter-terror operation in the West Bank in twenty years yesterday as they seek to counter terrorist activity in Jenin. What happened Starting on Monday, the IDF is targeting armed groups in the city of Jenin in…

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