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In Brief: Labor’s Michaeli points to link between far right and recent violence

Posted 29 November, 2022 in Analysis, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics
Merav Michaeli > Ron Kedmi, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Israel’s outgoing transportation minister and leader of the Israeli Labor party, Merav Michaeli, on Monday set out her view that recent violence in Israel was directly linked to violence in the West Bank and the political rise of the far right. “A straight line connects the…

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

Posted 29 November, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
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…

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Analysis: Anti-regime Iran protests enter eleventh week

Posted 29 November, 2022 in Analysis, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei > Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Iranian authorities are engaged in an increasingly brutal crackdown as protests against the regime enter their 11th week and the death toll exceeds 450. While the protests are taking placing nationwide, reports last week suggested the government was deploying heavy weapons and helicopters to…

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Labour MPs attend briefing from Palestinian human rights activist

Posted 29 November, 2022 in Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
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…

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In Brief: West condemns Iran as uranium enrichment ramped up

Posted 23 November, 2022 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East
Ayatollah Khamenei. Image Credit: Tasnim News, CC BY 4.0. The US government has expressed "deep concern" this week over progress Iran is making on its nuclear programme and ballistic missile capacity, while a number of European governments, including the UK, accused Tehran of ramping up uranium enrichment with "no credible civilian justification". The reaction came hours after Iran…

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In Brief: Israeli coalition negotiations drag on amid tensions

Posted 23 November, 2022 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Photo: Crown Copyright, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Religious Zionism, the alliance of far-right parties widely expected to partner with former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form Israel's next government, have declared that negotiations were "back at square one" after talks collapsed on Tuesday. The bone of contention has reportedly been the allocation of ministerial roles to party leaders, with…

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

Posted 23 November, 2022 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Peace process
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…

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Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves addresses record LFI Annual Lunch

Posted 23 November, 2022 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
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…

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