The antisemitic Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah planned to assassinate an Israeli national in Bogota, Colombia, as part of an operation to avenge the January 2020 death of Iranian al-Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, Colombian media has reported. The targeted Israeli was a former intelligence officer who had been stationed in Read more…
Labour Friends of Israel welcomed Labour leader Keir Starmer as guest of honour to its Annual Lunch this week, which saw capacity crowd in a packed out hall. Success The 2021 Annual Lunch was the first to take place since 2018, after previous lunches had to be cancelled due to Read more…
*** Check against delivery *** Chief Rabbi, Leader of the Opposition, Parliamentarians, my fellow guests and speakers. It is a pleasure to be with you at the LFI Annual Lunch this afternoon. I want to thank our lunch sponsors, Sir David Garrard and Isaac Kaye, and all of you who Read more…
*** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** Steve McCabe MP Chair, Labour Friends of Israel Speech to LFI Annual Lunch Chief Rabbi, Ambassador Hotovely, friends. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch. We wouldn’t be here today without the support of many of you in this room. Read more…
KEIR STARMER SPEECH FOR LFI ANNUAL LUNCH 2021 *** CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY *** Chief Rabbi, Ambassador, friends. It is a pleasure to be with you today at LFI’s annual lunch – our first opportunity to gather together since 2018. I want to join Steve in thanking today’s co-sponsors, Sir Read more…
Israel’s national intelligence agency, the Mossad, has thwarted multiple attacks by Iran against Israeli tourists and businessmen in three African countries, according to reports from Israel’s Channel 12. Targets included Israelis visiting the central and west African countries of Tanzania, Senegal and Ghana. Five suspects, all with African passports, have Read more…
Hamas, the Islamist terror group which governs Gaza, condemned six people to death last week for cooperating with Israel. The military judiciary in the Gaza Strip also announced additional sentences ranging from hard labour to life imprisonment. Two of those sentenced, a 58-year-old Gazan and a 57-year-old from Khan Younis, Read more…
The leader of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group, Hassan Nasrallah, boasted this week that he commands 100,000 fighters. Experts estimate that the claimed figure, which exceeds the size of Lebanon’s army, is almost certainly an exaggeration of the more likely figure of between 25 to 50,000. However, Nasrallah’s claim is Read more…
Labour Friends of Israel director Michael Rubin has written the below article for Fathom. Click here to read the original. Six years ago, at his first conference as Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn attended the Labour Friends of Israel reception and managed the remarkable feat of addressing attendees without uttering the name of Read more…
Lotfallah Dezhkam, the representative of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Fars province, called for the destruction of Israel in a sermon in Shiraz last week. The clerical firebrand declared, “the global arrogance led by America with complicity of Israel seeks to delay the realisation of […] the destruction of the Read more…
Labour Friends of Israel fully returned to Labour party conference for the first time since 2018 last week, as thousands of parliamentarians, delegates and members descended on Brighton for the first physical conference of Keir Starmer’s leadership. Main takeaways The 2021 conference was a huge success for LFI, with an overwhelmingly Read more…
The highlight of LFI’s 2021 Labour conference was the annual reception, which took place on Tuesday night. Turnout for the reception overwhelmed all expectations, with some 500 people attending the two-hour event. Speakers to the capacity crowd included LFI chair Steve McCabe, Dame Louise Ellman, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy, Read more…