LFI chair Steve McCabe MP spoke in today’s Backbench Business Debate on Iran and the JCPOA, which he co-sponsored alongside Robert Jenrick MP. He called for a “clear-sighted and comprehensive strategy” to tackle the Iranian regime’s many malign activities. Discussing Tehran’s ballistic missile programme, he also reminded colleagues that “the destruction Read more…
The Knesset committee for foreign workers, headed by Labor MK Ibtisam Mara’ana, has this week considered the need for work visas for LGBT Palestinians facing persecution in the West Bank and Gaza. The hearing took place after the High Court ruled that Israel’s welfare-based permits also included the possibility of Read more…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Twenty Four: Support the reunification of the West Bank and Gaza under PA authority The reunification of the West Bank and Gaza is a crucial step in the establishment of a viable Palestinian state. It is also Read more…
The Biden administration has joined 20 other countries in issuing a harsh rebuke on Monday to the UN Human Rights Council after a Commission of Inquiry formed to probe Israel released a report last week condemning the Jewish state. The report blamed Israel’s “persistent discrimination against Palestinians” for the 11-day Read more…
Members of the Hamas terror group planned to seize control of a Palestinian security installation near Ramallah, Palestinian sources claimed this week. The allegation coincides with the fifteenth anniversary of Hamas’s violent takeover of the Gaza Strip, which saw the Palestinian Territories split between Islamist Hamas in Gaza and the Read more…
Two aerospace division officers from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps who died over the weekend were involved in arming the Lebanese-based and Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group, according to reports. UK-based Iran International reported that Ali Kamani and Mohammad Abdous were “developing arms” for Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy, and that the Read more…
The terror group Hamas, which has governed the Gaza Strip since 2007, warned on Sunday that it could still respond to the weekend’s Jerusalem Day flag march “at the right time”. Last year, Hamas fired a number of rockets at Jerusalem during the annual parade, sparking an 11-day conflict with Israel. Read more…
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for Politics Home. Click here to read the original. Whatever the eventual outcome of the talks surrounding Iran’s nuclear programme, one thing is clear: we must urgently develop a comprehensive approach to tackling the multi-faceted challenges posed by Tehran. As Labour Read more…
View a PDF copy of our new pamphlet: Iran A Darkening Picture at Home and Abroad Britain must urgently develop a comprehensive approach to tackling the multi-faceted threat posed by Iran, argues a new report published by Labour Friends of Israel. Whatever the outcome of the Vienna talks on Tehran’s Read more…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Twenty: Support free elections in the West Bank and Gaza In 2005, Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian National Authority with a four-year term. The election, which Abbas won by a landslide, was observed by Read more…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Nineteen: Pressure Egypt to permanently open the Rafah crossing The Rafah Crossing represents a crucial route to the outside world for the people of Gaza and is the only pedestrian crossing between Gaza and Egypt. (The tightly Read more…
Two terrorists who murdered three people in Elad on Israel’s Independence Day were arrested by police on Sunday. The suspects, who come from the West Bank village of Rummanah in the Jenin area and have no record of security offences, were captured in woodland just outside Elad. As’ad Yousef As’ad Read more…