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LFI chair writes to Theresa May over Temple Mount concerns

Posted 26 July, 2017 in Incitement, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories
LFI’s chair, Joan Ryan, has today written to the Prime Minister regarding the situation at the Temple Mount. In her letter, she details evidence of incitement perpetrated by the Palestinian Authority over the past 10 days, and writes: “While President Abbas initially condemned the terrorist attack on the Temple Mount, the PA and his political party, Fatah, appear to have subsequently given…

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Analysis: Coexistence projects are key to building peace

Posted 20 July, 2017 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
This article by LFI chair Rt Hon. Joan Ryan MP first featured in the JewishNews. Click here to read it.  This week’s announcement by the government that it will invest up to £3 million over the next three years in coexistence projects which bring together Israelis and Palestinians represents a huge step forward in Labour Friends of Israel’s…

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Analysis: Terror at the Temple Mount

Posted 20 July, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories
The terrorist attack at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem last week, and ongoing disturbances surrounding new security measures introduced around the holy site by Israel, has thrown a renewed focus on what has been described as “the most incendiary spot in the Middle East”. Two Israeli police officers standing guard at the Lion’s Gate entrance to…

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Major victory for LFI’s coexistence campaign

Posted 19 July, 2017 in Coexistence, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
The government yesterday announced a huge boost for UK support for coexistence funding in a major victory for LFI's longstanding campaign on the issue. The Department for International Development has pledged up to £3 million for the next three years to support people-to-people projects which bring Israelis and Palestinians together. UK support for such projects had been cut…

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LFI parliamentary supporters make the case for Israel

Posted 6 July, 2017 in Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
In a House of Commons debate yesterday on Israel-Palestinian peace talks, LFI parliamentary supporters challenged the government on its cuts to co-existence funding, pushed our campaign for an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and highlighted the barriers to peace, including PA incitement and terrorism. LFI chair Joan Ryan urged the government to “reverse their elimination of UK support for co-existence projects…

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Major boost for LFI’s coexistence funding campaign

Posted 6 July, 2017 in Coexistence, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI’s campaign in support of the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace received a major boost this week with the endorsement of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council. In a joint statement backing the Fund, which aims to provide much-needed funding for coexistence projects, Gillian Merron, chief executive of…

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Analysis: Light at the end of the tunnel for Gaza?

Posted 3 July, 2017 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Ten years ago this month, Hamas executed a brutal takeover of Gaza, one that saw the terrorist group murder its political opponents and impose an Islamist regime on the poverty-stricken enclave. On three occasions since, most recently in 2014, the group has provoked bloody conflicts with Israel after sustained attacks on Israeli civilians. In each, it…

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Analysis: PA’s terror payments revealed

Posted 1 June, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The full extent of the Palestinian Authority’s policy of paying “salaries” to terrorists and their families was revealed this week, with the bill said to have exceeded $1bn over the last four years. The figure was revealed by Brig.-Gen (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, a former director general of Israel ’s Ministry of…

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Analysis: What chance for Trump’s “ultimate deal”?

Posted 10 May, 2017 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Donald Trump’s quixotic attempt to broker what he once he termed the “ultimate deal” – a peace agreement between Israel  and the Palestinians – bore its first tentative signs of success this week when President Mahmoud Abbas indicated he was prepared to begin talks with Benjamin Netanyahu. The Palestinian president’s announcement came during meetings in Ramallah with…

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Analysis: Pressure increases over PA terrorist salaries

Posted 3 May, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
LFI chair Joan Ryan MP has written to Theresa May, urging the government to ensure that the Palestinian Authority does not pay a salary to the man who murdered British student Hannah Bladon in Jerusalem last month.  This practice, enshrined in Palestinian law and first exposed in 2011, has been widely condemned by the international…

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