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In Brief: Israeli politicians line up to welcome Biden election victory

Posted 11 November, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East
Reuven Rivlin. Photo: Michał Józefaciuk , CC BY-SA 3.0 PL, via Wikimedia Commons Reuven Rivlin led the congratulations on Joe Biden's victory, and invited the president-elect to visit Jerusalem. In an English-language video, the Israeli president wrote: "Mr President-elect, I was pleased to welcome you to Jerusalem as vice president and I look forward to welcoming…

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Analysis: What to expect from the Biden-Harris administration

Posted 11 November, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will bring avowed friends and supporters of Israel to the White House in January. Their approach towards the Middle East is likely to be very different in both style and substance to the outgoing administration. Biden’s commitment to Israel is…

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LFI Director Michael Rubin Participates in Podcast on the EHRC Report

Posted 11 November, 2020 in Antisemitism, Labour Party, News
LFI Director Michael Rubin was a guest on the Progressive Britain Podcast which discussed the EHRC report into antisemitism in the Labour Party. Michael joined in a discussion with North West Jewish Labour Movement chair, Dena Ryness, Progress director Nathan Yeowell and Progress Campaign Assistant Frankie Grant. For the last five years, Jewish Labour members had been…

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Analysis: After the EHRC: Labour must tackle anti-Zionist antisemitism

Posted 3 November, 2020 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party
Sir Keir Starmer. Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Keir Starmer’s response to last week’s report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission represents an important and major step forward in the challenge of rooting out the scourge of antisemitism from the Labour party. The findings of the EHRC’s investigation were both clear and…

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In Brief: Mystery surrounds death of top Fatah militant as Abbas orders crackdown

Posted 3 November, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Mahmoud Abbas, Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Mystery surrounds the death of a top commander of the armed wing of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party who was killed on Saturday. Hatem Abu Rizek, a leading figure in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, died at the Balata refugee camp, near the West Bank city of…

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In Brief: Gantz’s Blue and White party weighs leaving Netanyahu coalition

Posted 3 November, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Benny Gantz. Photo: ראובן קפוצ'ינסקי, CC BY-SA 3.0  via Wikimedia Commons Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party are reportedly considering leaving Israel’s coalition government, a move that would trigger new elections. The centrist party came to an agreement with Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this year after three inconclusive general elections in which it fought Likud to a…

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In Brief: Jerusalem court rules PA must pay family of victims of 2002 terror attack

Posted 3 November, 2020 in Analysis, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Tzipi and Gadi Shemesh. Photo: Courtesy of family The Palestinian Authority has been ordered by Jerusalem’s District Court to pay nearly £3m to the family of a couple who died in a 2002 terror attack. Tzipi and Gadi Shemesh (pictured) and their unborn twins were murdered in central Jerusalem’s King George Street in March 2002 when…

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Analysis: From “No, No, No” to “Yes”; Sudan is latest state to normalise relations with Israel

Posted 27 October, 2020 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
  Sudan has become the latest Arab nation to seek to normalise its relationship with Israel. The agreement was announced during a call between Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump and Sudan’s Sovereign Council president, General Abdel Fattah al- Burhan, and prime minister Abdalla Hamdok. The announcement – which follows the signing last month of the Abraham Accords that…

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In Brief: Peers welcome normalisation deal in call with UAE ambassador

Posted 27 October, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Peace process
  Photo: Wikiemirati, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A cross-party group of members of the House of Lords welcomed the UAE’s normalisation agreement during a video call with the country’s ambassador to London last week. “We believe this is an exciting time for the UAE, Israel and the region,” Ambassador Mansoor Abulhoul  told two dozen members…

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