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LFI peers take part in Israeli-Palestinian peace debate

Posted 7 March, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
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 LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay reminded colleagues of how Iran's support for terrorism in the region…

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In Brief: Israeli president addresses Middle East’s largest investor event

Posted 6 March, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Israeli president Isaac Herzog > Elad Brami, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 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…

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In Brief: New Palestinian terror factions emerging in the West Bank

Posted 6 March, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Palestinian militant > atphalix, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 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…

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LFI chair: Offering Iran a voice at UN Human Rights Council is grotesque

Posted 6 March, 2023 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for JewishNews. Click here to read the original. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons 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…

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In Brief: Oman opens airspace to Israeli commercial flights for first time

Posted 28 February, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq Al Said > US State Department, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 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…

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Analysis: Weekend of violence sees terror attack and settlers rioting

Posted 28 February, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Hallel and Yagel Yaniv > Courtesy via Times of Israel 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…

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LFI vice-chair reflects on first visit to Israel on LFI delegation

Posted 14 February, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI vice-chair Catherine McKinnell MP has written the below article for JewishNews. Click here to read the original. Last week, I travelled to Israel for the first time as part of a delegation organised by Labour Friends of Israel. As we heard repeatedly, our trip comes at a time when the state faces both immense challenges and huge…

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In Brief: Two children die in new Jerusalem terror attack as violence mounts

Posted 14 February, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Two children and a 20-year-old student died in a terrorist attack in northern Jerusalem on Friday when a car was driven into a crowd waiting at a bus stop. The attack brought to 10 the number of Israeli civilians killed by terrorists in the last two weeks. The two children who died were brothers, Asher Menahem Paley,…

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LFI and CFI chairs: Iranian terror is a clear and present danger to the UK

Posted 13 February, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP and CFI chair Stephen Crabb MP have written the below article for the Daily Telegraph. Click here to read the original. LFI chair Steve McCabe MP. David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0. As it clings on to power with ever greater desperation, deploying unimaginable violence against its own citizens for daring to call for…

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Analysis: Holocaust Memorial Day attack terror attack leaves 7 Israelis dead

Posted 31 January, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Peace process
Victims of terror attack > Courtesy, via Times of Israel Seven Israelis were murdered in a terror attack as worshippers departed a Jerusalem synagogue on Friday night. The attack – on Holocaust Memorial Day – was the deadliest Palestinian terrorist attack in Jerusalem since 2008. The bloodshed comes amid a spiral of violence which began with…

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