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Shadow Home Secretary echoes LFI’s warnings around antisemitism

Posted 19 February, 2024 in Antisemitism, Labour Party, News
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper MP At today's Commons statement on antisemitism in the UK, shadow home secretary and LFI parliamentary supporter Yvette Cooper MP echoed LFI's warnings around the huge increase in antisemitism that has been recorded in the UK since 7 October. "It is unconscionable that one of the steepest surges in antisemitism came in…

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LFI sets out steps to a sustainable ceasefire

Posted 19 February, 2024 in Hamas, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Labour Friends of Israel logo Keir Starmer is right: we urgently need an end to the fighting and a permanent and sustainable ceasefire in Gaza. How do we get there? Hamas must be disarmed and have no role in the future governance of Gaza. All the Israeli hostages must be immediately released and indiscriminate rocket attacks…

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LFI parliamentarians stand against antisemitism at Commons statement

Posted 19 February, 2024 in Antisemitism, Labour Party, News
  LFI parliamentary supporter Margaret Hodge MP At today's statement in the House of Commons on antisemitism in the UK, two LFI parliamentarians spoke about the need for the government to take tougher action against the huge increase in antisemitic incidents that have been recorded since 7 October. LFI parliamentary supporter Margaret Hodge MP called for a "coordinated"…

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Analysis: Hostage deal in doubt as Hamas insists on control of Gaza

Posted 7 February, 2024 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories
IDF troops inside the Gaza Strip > IDF Spokesperson's Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED, via Wikimedia Commons. On the ground: Latest figures suggest that at least 1,444 Israelis have been killed since 7 October, including in the initial Hamas terror attacks, rocket attacks, and subsequent war in Gaza. Around 132 Israelis are thought to still be being held…

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LFI peers take part in Holocaust Memorial Day debate

Posted 2 February, 2024 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Peace process
Baroness Ramsay, Baroness Anderson, Lord Wood and Baroness Merron At today's Holocaust Memorial Day debate in the House of Lords, a number of LFI peers spoke about antisemitism, Israel, and LFI. LFI's chair in the House of Lords, Baroness Ramsay, reflected on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas since 7 October, and particularly the recent revelations…

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LFI parliamentary supporter Baroness Anderson: Bearing witness to the October 7 pogrom was harrowing

Posted 31 January, 2024 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories
LFI parliamentary supporter Baroness Anderson has written the below article for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. LFI parliamentary supporter Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent H arrowing. That is the only word I’ve been able to use about the Labour Friends of Israel solidarity visit to Israel I went on at the beginning of January.…

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Labour parliamentarians attend briefing on Hamas sexual violence

Posted 31 January, 2024 in Antisemitism, Hamas, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories
UK-Israel APPG briefing on Hamas sexual violence A number of Labour parliamentarians have today attended a briefing, co-organised by LFI with the UK-Israel APPG, to hear from witnesses and survivor accounts of Hamas sexual violence against Israeli women and girls during the 7 October terror attacks. The event, co-chaired by LFI vice-chair Sharon Hodgson MP, was addressed…

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Shadow Middle East minister urges action against Iranian proxies

Posted 30 January, 2024 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories
LFI parliamentary supporter Wayne David MP At today's FCDO questions session, Labour's shadow Middle East minister and LFI parliamentary supporter Wayne David MP pushed the government on what steps it was taking to counteract Iran's support for terrorist proxies across the Middle East, including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. He asked: "Today the Middle East is in…

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Chipping Barnet PPC Dan Tomlinson: We must continue to educate younger generations about the evil of antisemitism

Posted 30 January, 2024 in Antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, News
Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate in Chipping Barnet, Dan Tomlinson, has written the below article for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. Labour candidate in Chipping Barnet, Dan Tomlinson, with former LFI chair Louise Ellman in Israel as part of an LFI delegation The theme for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day was “fragility of freedom”. Many in Barnet’s…

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Analysis: Domestic pressure on Netanyahu grows as war grinds on

Posted 25 January, 2024 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories
IDF troops inside the Gaza Strip > IDF Spokesperson's Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED, via Wikimedia Commons. Military situation in Gaza This week saw the heaviest single day losses for the IDF in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the ground operation, with 24 soldiers killed on 22 January. Some 21 were killed after being hit with…

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