LFI vice-chair Dame Diana Johnson MP has written the below article for TheHouse. Click here to read the original.
They murdered and kidnapped Holocaust survivors, massacred babies and gunned down young people as they danced at a music festival.
It …
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is urgent and desperate. The deaths and suffering of innocent Palestinian civilians, especially children, is tragic and heartbreaking.
The humanitarian situation is rooted in 16 years of rule by Hamas – an antisemitic terror group …
LFI’s chair in the House of Lords, Baroness Ramsay, said with regard to the BBC’s reporting of the the conflict between Israel and Hamas: “Saying that Hamas is designated a terrorist organisation was a weasel-worded way of getting out …
At the start of his response to the prime minister’s statement on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas today, Labour leader Keir Starmer condemned Hamas’s “barbarism” following the horrific terror attacks of 7 October.
He said: “The brutal attack …
At the start of his keynote speech at conference this morning, shadow foreign secretary and longstanding LFI parliamentary supporter David Lammy expressed his support for Israel in the face of Hamas’s recent attacks and declared that “Labour stands firmly in …
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for Progressive Britain Click here to read the original.
If Labour wins the next general election, the political and economic landscape of the Middle East will look rather different than …
Israel and Saudi Arabia are moving towards a historic US-brokered deal to normalise diplomatic ties, the White House said on Friday.
US President Joe Biden hopes to score an election-year diplomatic victory by securing recognition of the Jewish state by …
As the UN General Assembly convened last week, longstanding speculation around the potential for a normalisation deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia has reached a fever pitch.
What happened
US secretary of state Antony Blinken claimed last week that any potential normalisation agreement between the Saudis and Israel would have to include steps towards a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
Blinken stressed his view that if the Israel-Saudi normalisation …
In today’s House of Lords debate on UK support for the Abraham Accords, two Labour peers urged the UK government to more proactively support the Accords on the global stage.
Lord Mendelsohn declared the Accords “one of the single most …
Officials from the Palestinian Authority have demanded hundreds of millions of dollars and more control of land in the West Bank during talks in Riyadh with Saudi counterparts as part of the three-way deal involving the US, Saudi Arabia and …
One million Israelis have visited the United Arab Emirates since the signing of the 2020 Abraham Accords.
Speaking to the Jewish News, Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson Lior Haiat said: “almost one-in-ten Israelis has visited the UAE since the end …