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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: Trump’s new “special relationship”

Posted 25 May, 2017 in Analysis, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Peace process
There are few better examples of the yawning gap between Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric and governing reality than his approach towards Israel . After eight years of Barack Obama’s alleged cool indifference, the Israeli  right were led to believe they would have a “true friend” in the White House once again: one who would stop nagging them about…

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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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Iain McNicol visits Israel with LFI

Posted 4 April, 2017 in Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Iain McNicol, general secretary of the Labour party, travelled to Israel this week with Labour Friends of Israel. The three-day trip included laying a wreath at Yad Vashem; meeting with Israeli Labor MKs Hilik Bar and Michal Biran and the party’s new general secretary, Eran Hermoni; visiting a Jerusalem coexistence project; and a tour of…

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Analysis: A new port for Gaza?

Posted 16 March, 2017 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Likud transport minister Yisrael Katz voiced his support again last week for a new sea port on the Gaza coast, indicating continuing Israeli concern about the future of the Palestinian enclave. The idea has been proposed in various forms over the past five years, though Katz’ vision is particularly ambitious: a $5bn artificial island three…

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Analysis: Israel Apartheid Week returns to campus

Posted 2 March, 2017 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
This week sees the return of Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) to campuses in the UK. The week long anti-Israel campaign originated in Toronto in 2005 and has since spread to dozens of cities around the world. Campus groups host a series of discussions, exhibitions, film viewings and publicity stunts, aiming to demonise and delegitimise the…

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LFI chair Joan Ryan MP welcomes US bill in support of the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace

Posted 2 March, 2017 in Coexistence, Israel, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Joan Ryan has welcomed the introduction of a new bill in the US Congress which raises the prospect of a significant boost to the international campaign to fund coexistence projects in Israel and Palestine. Congressmen Jeff Fortenberry and Joe Crowley introduced the bill in the US House of Representatives to establish American leadership in creating a grant-making…

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