*** Check against delivery *** Chief Rabbi, Ambassador Hotovely, friends. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch. And a warm welcome to our friends from the Abraham Accords countries. LFI’s work is more vital than ever, and the Read more…
David Lammy today used the LFI annual lunch to underline Labour’s commitment to Israel and set out a series of measures the party would take in government to support a renewed drive to kick-start the Middle East peace process. The shadow foreign secretary was addressing the biggest LFI lunch since Read more…
LFI board member Louise Ellman has written the below article for Progressive Britain. Click here to read the original. The UN’s International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls on 25 November is a time to face reality: the atrocities of Hamas gunmen in on October 7 included the widespread Read more…
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. The fury and rage of the anti-Israel protesters who took to the streets of London again this weekend should not be confused with a mass movement with strong public backing. In its Read more…
Today, LFI and the Jewish Labour Movement wrote to all Labour councillors setting out our support for Keir Starmer and Labour’s position on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, with a need for humanitarian pauses and to prioritise community cohesion. See below for the full letter.
Labour leader Keir Starmer has today set out Labour’s support for humanitarian pauses in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, explaining in a speech at Chatham House that a ceasefire would leave Hamas with the capability to carry out further attacks in Israel, and prevent the return Read more…
Latest developments Nearly three weeks after a savage Hamas terror attack left at least 1,400 people murdered, more than 5,000 wounded, and at least 220 abducted, Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip is continuing with intensive bombing of Hamas targets from the air, and forces ready for a Read more…
LFI vice-chair Dame Diana Johnson MP has written the below article for TheHouse. Click here to read the original. They murdered and kidnapped Holocaust survivors, massacred babies and gunned down young people as they danced at a music festival. It is difficult to comprehend – let alone explain – the savagery which Read more…
Speaking for the Labour frontbench in today’s report stage debate of the Economic Activity of Public Bodies Bill, Labour’s deputy leader and shadow secretary of state for levelling up, Angela Rayner, reiterated that “Labour is opposed to a policy of adopting boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel”. She began her Read more…
LFI’s chair in the House of Lords, Baroness Ramsay, said with regard to the BBC’s reporting of the the conflict between Israel and Hamas: “Saying that Hamas is designated a terrorist organisation was a weasel-worded way of getting out of the fact that they were not going to call it Read more…
Following the ugly scenes of extremism in London, LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written to Home Secretary Suella Braverman. In 2021, the government was warned about the “gaping chasm in the law that allows hateful extremists to operate with impunity”. You can read the full letter below:
At today’s statement from the prime minister on the situation in Israel and Gaza, a number of LFI parliamentarians pushed the government for measures to counter extremism and antisemitism domestically following Hamas’s terror attacks on Israel. LFI chair Steve McCabe MP asked: “I welcome the Prime Minister’s statement. Given that Read more…