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Analysis: Abbas’ antisemitism pervades the PA

Posted 3 May, 2018 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
  Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Mahmoud Abbas claimed on Monday that the behaviour of Jews was responsible for the Holocaust – the latest example of the antisemitism regularly perpetrated by the president and the Palestinian Authority. Addressing the Palestinian National Council in Ramallah, Abbas said Hitler’s murder of six million Jews was not caused by antisemitism…

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Analysis: Seven Defining Moments: Israel at 70

Posted 26 April, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
On the 14th May, 1948, on the termination of the British Mandate, Israel declared its independence. As the Jewish state celebrates its seventieth anniversary, here are seven defining moments in the history of the reborn Jewish state. 1948 - Israel’s War of Independence The Jewish Agency, pre-state Israel’s government-in-waiting, accepting UN Resolution 181 which called for the…

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Analysis: UK funds PA lessons in hate

Posted 11 April, 2018 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
The government has admitted that British aid is helping to support the delivery of the Palestinian Authority’s new school curriculum – a curriculum which promotes terrorism and encourages children to become "martyrs". The revelation was exposed by LFI chair Joan Ryan and covered by the Sunday Times last weekend. In response to a series of parliamentary questions tabled by…

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Analysis: Clashes at the Gaza border leave sixteen Palestinians dead

Posted 4 April, 2018 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Sixteen Palestinians – eleven of whom were known members of terror organisations – died during clashes on the border between Gaza and Israel on Friday. The clashes took place in the context of a series of protests at the Gaza border, calling for the fulfilment of the Palestinian ‘right of return’. Friday’s events were the beginning…

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Analysis: Israel’s weekend of terror

Posted 23 March, 2018 in Analysis, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Three Israelis were murdered in a weekend of terror attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Adiel Kolman, a 32-year-old father of four, was stabbed to death near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday. Two days earlier, two Israeli soldiers were killed and another two injured following a car ramming attack outside a military…

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Analysis: Trump’s peace plan: the ultimate deal?

Posted 16 March, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  President Trump’s long-awaited Middle East plan is close to completion, according to reports in the US media last weekend. The timing of its release is not yet confirmed and details of its contents are highly guarded. However, the president’s enthusiasm for negotiating the "ultimate deal" – a peace agreement which brings an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – seemingly…

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Pledge to end Gaza crisis offers a solution, not a soundbite

Posted 8 March, 2018 in Hamas, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
This op-ed by Joan Ryan first appeared in the JewishNews, click here to read it.  The humanitarian situation in Gaza is desperate and deeply concerning. Electricity supplies are highly restricted; water and sewage facilities are under strain; rising unemployment has hit 40 percent, with an estimated six in 10 young people out of work. For many people…

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LFI launches Pledge for Gaza

Posted 8 March, 2018 in Hamas, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI today launches our new Pledge for Gaza campaign - part of our long-standing work to encourage the economic revitalisation of the coastal enclave. We will be inviting Labour parliamentarians to sign the five-point plan. It seeks to provide a multifaceted response to the challenges facing Gaza. The pledge recognises the plight of the people of Gaza and the dire humanitarian…

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Time to get tough, Prime Minister

Posted 1 March, 2018 in Coexistence, Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
This op-ed first appeared in the Jewish Chronicle, click here to view the original.  Britain is a major donor to the Palestinian Authority. Over the period to 2021, £125m of taxpayers’ money will be sent to Ramallah. Supporting a viable Palestinian administration is key to the UK’s goal of achieving a two-state solution, a goal we fully…

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