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Analysis: Iranian threat at all time high one year after protests began

Posted 18 September, 2023 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei > Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0; via Wikimedia Commons One year on from the death in Iranian police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, Iran remains an international pariah posing threats on numerous fronts.   What happened The first anniversary of Amini’s death, on Saturday 16 September, saw thousands of people around the world take to the streets…

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Labour Lords champion UK support for Abraham Accords

Posted 14 September, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour's shadow Lords FCDO spokesperson, Lord Collins of Highbury 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 transformational moments in the Middle East", and urged…

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In Brief: Likud members said to object to Haredi draft law, potentially imperilling government

Posted 13 September, 2023 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Israel's parliament, the Knesset. Source: צילום: איציק אדרי A rift is beginning to open within the coalition government. The non-haredi parties, Likud, Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit, are facing serious threats from the Haredi parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism (UTJ), that would end the coalition government and lead to an election being called. The disagreement is over…

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In Brief: Paris mayor strips Abbas of honour over Holocaust remarks

Posted 13 September, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Palestinian Territories
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons The Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, stripped Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas of the Grand Vermeil medal after her office said he "justified the extermination of the Jews of Europe" in World War II. Ms Hidalgo, of the Socialist Party’ sent Abbas a letter stating that “the comments you made are contrary…

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In Brief: Palestinians set out terms for agreeing to historic Saudi-Israeli deal

Posted 13 September, 2023 in Abraham Accords, Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Crown prince Mohamad bin Salman > US State Department, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 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 Israel. The deal…

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Chipping Barnet PPC Dan Tomlinson: How the Labour Party can take inspiration from Israel

Posted 13 September, 2023 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Chipping Barnet, Dan Tomlinson, has written the below article about our recent LFI delegation to Israel and Palestine for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Dan Tomlinson with Dame Louise Ellman during LFI visit to Israel Last week, I had pleasure of joining Labour Friends of Israel’s largest ever delegation of…

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Analysis: LFI hosts largest ever parliamentary candidate delegation to Israel

Posted 11 September, 2023 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
LFI delegation visits Jerusalem's Old City The largest ever Labour Friends of Israel delegation of prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) visited Israel and the Palestinian Territories last week. The five-day delegation provided a wide-ranging introduction to Israel and the wider Middle East, with opportunities to learn about the country’s history, its dynamic and innovative economy, and the importance of UK-Israel…

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Dover PPC Mike Tapp: Israel needs a revival of the centre-left

Posted 9 August, 2023 in Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
Labour's Parliamentary Candidate for Dover, Mike Tapp, has written the below article about our recent LFI delegation to Israel and Palestine for the Jewish News. Click here to read the original. Labour Friends of Israel delegation; July 2023 I recently had the privilege of joining a Labour Friends of Israel delegation on a visit to Israel and Palestine. Among…

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