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In Brief: Stop judicial reform and restart peace talks for Saudi normalisation, says US

Posted 24 May, 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 The Biden administration reportedly wants the Israeli government to halt its judicial reforms and restart peace talks with the Palestinian Authority in order for the US to make progress with brokering normalisation between Israel and Saudi Arabia. The past week has seen a…

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UK govt slammed for failure to ban IRGC in Lords debate

Posted 24 May, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
IRGC Parade in Tehran. Image Credit: YPA, CC-BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The government has been challenged over its failure to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group in a debate in the House of Lords yesterday. The debate follows reporting that the government was imminently about to proscribe the IRGC in early…

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Labour activists visit Israel and West Bank with LFI and We Believe

Posted 24 May, 2023 in Antisemitism, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
Activist delegation > LFI Senior Labour party activists visited Israel and the Palestinian territories last week, many of them for the first time, as part of a delegation led by LFI and We Believe in Israel. The group, including leaders from Labour affiliates, thinktanks and campaign groups, visited Yad Vashem, the Knesset, met with Israeli Labor leader…

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Analysis: Assad back in the Arab League fold

Posted 24 May, 2023 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Peace process
Bashar al-Assad > Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Bashar al-Assad triumphantly returned to the Middle East’s top table last week – 12 years after the blood-soaked dictator was suspended from the Arab League at the outset of a civil war which has killed more than 500,000 people and displaced millions. What happened On Friday, Assad…

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Christian Wakeford pushes government on Iranian disinformation in the UK

Posted 22 May, 2023 in Iran, Labour Party, News
LFI parliamentary supporter Christian Wakeford MP At today's Home Office Questions, LFI parliamentary supporter Christian Wakeford MP pushed the government for detail on its actions against Iranian interference in UK politics. "It's now more than two years since The Times reported that Iranian cyber specialists were peddling disinformation in an attempt to influence the results of the…

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LFI Lords chair meets coexistence activist Samah Salaime

Posted 22 May, 2023 in Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Baroness Ramsay meets Samah Salaime Today, LFI Lords chair Baroness Ramsay met with Samah Salaime, Head of Communications and Development at the Village of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, a community founded to demonstrate cooperation and friendship between Israeli Jews and Arabs. Samah was visiting London in association with Oasis of Peace UK. In their conversation, they discussed the…

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Lord Turnberg meets Israel’s leading disability non-profit

Posted 22 May, 2023 in Israel, Labour Party, News
Lord Turnberg and Bob Blackman MP meeting Beit Issie Shapiro CEO Ahmir Lerner, UK Friends of BIS Chair Laura Weller, Director Nikki Leviner and Board Member Michal Cohen-Sagi LFI parliamentary supporter Lord Turnberg has today met with representatives from Beit Issie Shapiro, Israel’s leading non-profit organisation which champions the rights, opportunities and services for people with…

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In Brief: Israeli foreign minister makes first visit to Sweden in 22 years

Posted 16 May, 2023 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Israeli and Swedish flags > Israel Sweden Chamber of Commerce, public domain Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen, visited Sweden on Monday in what is the first Israeli visit to the Nordic country in 22 years. The visit follows a thaw in relations between Jerusalem and Stockholm since 2021, after more than a decade of frosty relations. The relationship…

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In Brief: EU parliament condemns “hateful” Palestinian school textbooks

Posted 16 May, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Image: IMPACT - se The European parliament last week passed a resolution condemning the Palestinian Authority over “hateful” content in its textbooks and conditioning future educational funding on the removal of antisemitic material. The vote marked the fourth consecutive year that the parliament has passed a resolution criticising Ramallah for the content of its educational curriculum. This year’s resolution was “noticeably…

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In Brief: Turkey looks to run-off election after Erdogan falls short of majority

Posted 16 May, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Middle East
Recep Tayyip Erdogan > Government of Chile, CC BY 3.0 CL, via Wikimedia Commons Turkey is braced for its first run-off election after incumbent president Recep Tayyip Erdogan failed to secure a first-round win in Sunday's presidential election. Erdogan, who has held the presidency since 2014 and dominated Turkish politics for two decades, edged ahead of his…

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