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In Brief: Peace with Saudis on the horizon, claims Israeli lawmaker

Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Last week, Likud Knesset member Danny Danon told an international Abraham Accords forum that he expects to “see an agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia in the coming year.” Diplomats, business leaders and high ranking academics gathered in Rome at the Abraham Accords Global…

LFI director: Pro-Israel, pro-Palestine and pro-peace solutions to the Gaza humanitarian crisis

LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. The plight of the people of Gaza is desperate and undeniable. Amid rampant unemployment, creaking infrastructure and overstretched services nearly two in three Gazans live below the poverty line. At Labour Friends of Israel, we’ve long attempted to increase awareness…

Gaza: Reconstruction, Revitalisation and Reality

View a PDF copy of our new pamphlet: Gaza Reconstruction Revitalisation and Reality Labour Friends of Israel is proud to publish our third policy pamphlet of the year: Gaza: Reconstruction, Revitalisation and Reality.  This publication explores the causes of the present political and humanitarian crises in Gaza, and what steps might help to resolve them.   With…

In Brief: West Bank violence showing no sign of coming to an end

MDA armoured ambulance > Tewfik, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons The escalating situation in the West Bank is likely to only get worse in the coming year as current tensions should not simply view this as a ‘wave of terror’ according to several Israeli officials. Brig. Gen. Amit Saar said that Iran will be the most…

Analysis: Israeli president visits the UAE and Bahrain for the first time

Israeli president Isaac Herzog > Elad Brami, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Isaac Herzog this week returned to Israel after a two-day visit to Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. The Israeli President’s visit underlined the changed relationship between the two Gulf states and the Jewish state following the Abraham Accords, while also highlighting some…

In Brief: Female soldier seriously hurt in latest car ramming terror attack

MDA armoured ambulance > Tewfik, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons An Israeli woman was seriously wounded on Tuesday following a car ramming attack in the West Bank. Surveillance footage of the attack near the West Bank settlement of Migron, north of Jerusalem, showed a black SUV turning to drive into a female soldier. The vehicle rammed into…

Labour MPs attend briefing from Palestinian human rights activist

This evening, a number of Labour MPs joined a briefing from Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Eid at an event organised by the UK-Israel APPG. Eid's work since the 1990s has focused on human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, including by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. He also spoke about problems with corruption in the…

In Brief: Jerusalem rocked by double bus attack as teenager kidnapped

MDA armoured ambulance > Tewfik, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons 19 people have been injured, with one confirmed casualty, following two explosions in West Jerusalem this morning in what is thought to be a double terror attack. A third bomb was defused last night on the light rail track near Jerusalem's central bus station. The first victim…

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves addresses record LFI Annual Lunch

Labour Friends of Israel welcomed shadow chancellor and LFI vice-chair Rachel Reeves as keynote speaker at its Annual Lunch this week, the largest since Labour was last in government. Following on from last year’s success, at which Labour leader Keir Starmer made clear his rejection of antisemitic anti-Zionism and BDS, the 2022 Annual Lunch was LFI’s biggest since…

LFI chair Steve McCabe’s speech to LFI’s 2022 Annual Lunch

LFI chair Steve McCabe addresses LFI's 2022 Annual Lunch   *** Check against delivery ***   Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch Tuesday 22 November 2022   Steve McCabe MP, Chair Labour Friends of Israel   Introduction Chief Rabbi, Ambassador Hotovely, friends. It’s my great pleasure to welcome you to Labour Friends of Israel’s Annual Lunch. We wouldn’t be here today without the support of many in this…