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LFI chair Jon Pearce MP has written the below article for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. As chair of Labour Friends of Israel, last week I became the first British MP to travel between Read more…
At today’s Urgent Question on the Israeli Government’s announcement that they are expanding their military operations in Gaza, Labour MPs Jon Pearce and Blair McDougall asked what steps the government was taking to strengthen moderate Read more…
LFI chair Jon Pearce MP has today written to Sarah Crew, Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police, regarding a Bristol councillor’s sharing of a video from Hamas on social media in October 2023. In Read more…