At today’s Urgent Question on talks to de-escalate the violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, LFI parliamentarians pushed the UK government to demonstrate leadership to bring Israel and the Palestinians together in a peace process, with the goal of a negotiated two-state solution. LFI vice-chair Dame Diana Johnson Read more…
A number of online videos are being shared on Palestinian social media channels which provide detailed instructions on how to murder Israeli civilians, the Jewish Chronicle has reported. The clips, which are being widely shared on apps like Telegram, YouTube, Facebook and other platforms, have emerged amid a wave of terror attacks Read more…
The IDF locked down the area surrounding the West Bank town of Huwara on Sunday evening, following a Palestinian terrorist attack. An Israeli couple were injured in the shooting exactly three weeks after two Israelis were killed in a similar gun attack in the town. American-born Michael Stern was taken to hospital Read more…
The below is Labour Friends of Israel’s 2023 National Policy Forum submission, to the ‘Britain in the world’ commission. Labour Friends of Israel: NPF Consultation Submission About LFI Established in 1957, Labour Friends of Israel campaigns for a negotiated two-state solution for two peoples; with Israel safe, secure and recognised Read more…
Today’s FCDO orals session saw LFI parliamentarians push the government on a number of policy issues. LFI parliamentary supporter and former LFI chair Andrew Gwynne MP asked the foreign secretary about UK support for the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, noting that it is now five years since the UK Read more…
The Labour frontbench has today reiterated the party’s support for UK involvement in the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, a longstanding LFI campaign goal. Responding to a debate in the House of Lords on Israeli-Palestinian peace, Labour’s Lords FCDO spokesperson Lord Collins highlighted the importance of “economic development and Read more…
A number of LFI peers have this evening taken part in a debate on ‘calming the violence and build a lasting peace between the government of Israel and the Palestinian people’ in the House of Lords. LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay reminded colleagues of how Iran’s support for terrorism in Read more…
Israeli president Isaac Herzog has praised a summit involving the biggest business delegation from the Gulf which “would have been pure fantasy a few years ago”. Herzog formally opened the OurCrowd summit, the biggest investor event in the Middle East for start-up companies, saying he was particularly glad to see Read more…
Recent violence in the West Bank between the IDF and Palestinian militant groups has witnessed small numbers of young Palestinian men take up arms against Israel in defiance of the Palestinian political leadership. A number of newly emerging groups, many with fluid and overlapping affiliations, have emerged which lack clear Read more…
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for JewishNews. Click here to read the original. In the past week, Iran’s foreign minister was invited to address the annual opening session of the UN Human Rights Council. Steve McCabe MP, chair of Labour Friends of Israel, pledges his party’s Read more…
An El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Bangkok become the first Israeli airliner to cross over Oman’s airspace on Sunday night, three days after the Gulf state opened its skies to aircraft from all countries, including the Jewish state. The journey to Thailand, which would normally take 10.5 hours, Read more…
A weekend of violence in the West Bank saw two Israelis murdered in a terror attack and a deadly and unprecedented riot by settlers in the Palestinian town of Huwara. The violence came during a summit at the Jordanian port of Aqaba aimed at reducing tensions ahead of the Muslim Read more…