Labour Friends of Israel have just returned from a very successful four day-long visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories with four Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidates and two Labour Members of Parliament. Dame Tessa Jowell MP, who held several senior ministerial positions under PM Tony Blair and PM Gordon Brown, Read more…
Ed Miliband showed strong solidarity with Israel and highlighted his personal connection to the country on his first visit as Leader of the Labour Party. The Labour Leader was joined by his wife Justine, Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander, political advisors and LFI director Jennifer Gerber. Ed Miliband met with Read more…
Shadow Chancellor Rt Hon Ed Balls MP visited Israel and the Palestinian territories this week with Labour Friends of Israel, and called for the economic partnership between Britain and Israel to be celebrated, and for Israelis and Palestinians to develop closer business links with each other. Describing the visit as Read more…
Shadow Foreign Secretary Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP addressed the Labour Friends of Israel Annual Lunch on Tuesday (2 July) and asserted that Israel’s existence should be celebrated as a progressive cause. He denounced the boycott movement as an obstacle to a peaceful two state solution, and said that we Read more…
Shadow International Development Secretary Ivan Lewis MP led, last week, a delegation to Israel and the Palestinian territories. Ivan Lewis was joined by Derek Twigg MP and LFI Vice Chair and International Development Committee member Michael McCann MP on the visit. The delegates explored Israel’s development projects overseas, and held Read more…
UK-Israel-Palestine and the new age of the city
By Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, 30-Jan-2013, Fathom Journal
We are entering a new urban age, so let’s build world class partnerships between the great hubs of British, Israeli and Palestinian life.
Labour front benchers head to Israel and the Palestinian territories on hi-tech fact-finding mission Shadow Secretaries of State for Work & Pensions and Business & Innovation, Liam Byrne and Chuka Umunna, led this week a Labour delegation to Israel and the Palestinian territories, to learn from Israel’s hi-tech success, and Read more…