Skip to content Skip to sidebar Skip to footer

Government offers support for International Fund

Posted 23 February, 2018 in Coexistence, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
The government this week said it supported the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. Asked by LFI parliamentary supporter Luciana Berger at Foreign Office questions to "pledge the UK’s diplomatic support", Middle East minister Alistair Burt announced: "The UK supports the concept of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace.” He continued: “We’re following the concept…

more

0Comments 0Likes 31Views

Analysis: Abbas speech peddles “antisemitic fictions”

Posted 17 January, 2018 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons In an angry, some believe valedictory, address on Sunday evening, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, delivered a series of broadsides against Israel, rejected the nascent US peace plan and vowed to continue paying salaries to convicted Palestinian terrorists. Abbas’ speech drew sharp criticism from across the Israeli political spectrum, with Labor…

more

0Comments 0Likes 36Views

Analysis: What is the PA teaching Palestinian children?

Posted 21 December, 2017 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Earlier this year, Mahmoud Abbas told President Trump: "We are raising our youth, our children, our grandchildren on a culture of peace." It is not a claim that withstands much scrutiny. The Palestinian Authority which Abbas heads namessummer camps and schools after terrorists, and its official media pumps out a diet of antisemitic incitement, which even features in children’s television…

more

0Comments 0Likes 36Views

LFI chair writes to Kate Osamor over BDS statement

Posted 13 December, 2017 in Antisemitism, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Joan Ryan has written to the shadow international development secretary, Kate Osamor, asking her to clarify Tweets she made over the weekend supporting the BDS movement. Below the words "BDS movement # freedom # Justice # Equality", Ms Osamor added a link to the Middle East Institute for Understanding and an explanation of the…

more

0Comments 0Likes 37Views

New Palestinian Authority school lessons in hate raise concern over UK aid funding

Posted 12 December, 2017 in Antisemitism, Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
This article originally appeared in the Jewish Chronicle, click here to read it.  The Palestinian Authority school curriculum is teaching children the ‘virtues of martyrdom’ and repeatedly refers to Israel as the ‘Zionist Occupation’, an alarming new report has revealed. The newly updated syllabus, the first since the PA published its 2000 curriculum as part of the…

more

0Comments 0Likes 29Views

Analysis: Jerusalem recognition makes peace harder to achieve

Posted 8 December, 2017 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Donald Trump announced this week that the United States would be formally recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, upending decades of US policy. In a brief White House address, the American president declared that formal recognition was “a recognition of reality” and the “right thing to do”. He was immediately praised by Israeli prime minister…

more

0Comments 0Likes 27Views

LFI Statement on Jerusalem

Posted 6 December, 2017 in Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
An LFI spokesperson said: “LFI’s position is unchanged. Unilateral international moves – such as those by President Trump today – do not advance the peace process. It is important that formal recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is part of a reinvigorated and renewed peace process in pursuit of two states for two peoples, with…

more

0Comments 0Likes 39Views

Analysis: Thornberry lays out Labour’s Israel agenda

Posted 30 November, 2017 in Analysis, Israel, Labour Party, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
The next Labour government will challenge antisemitic incitement by the Palestinian Authority, support the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and continue to oppose the BDS movement, the shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, told this week’s annual LFI lunch. Ms Thornberry also repeated Labour’s pledge to recognise a Palestinian state and made clear it…

more

0Comments 0Likes 32Views

Ambassador Mark Regev’s Speech to LFI Annual Lunch 2017

Posted 30 November, 2017 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
*** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** HMA Mark Regev, Israeli Ambassador, speech to Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch 2017  Chief Rabbi, Lords and Ladies, Members of Parliament, Distinguished guests, It is a real pleasure to be back here at Central Hall for LFI’s Annual Lunch. I would like to begin by thanking your Parliamentary Chair, Joan Ryan, and the entire LFI…

more

0Comments 0Likes 46Views

Emily Thornberry MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary, speech to LFI Annual Lunch 2017

Posted 28 November, 2017 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
*** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** Rt Hon Emily Thornberry MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary, speech to Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch 2017  Chief Rabbi, Ambassador Regev, Parliamentary colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is an honour to be here today. Sir David, thank you for that kind introduction, and on behalf of everyone here, let me add my…

more

0Comments 0Likes 147Views