Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper have today written for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Saturday, October 7th, was a day of horror. Not just for those slaughtered and abducted by Hamas terrorists. Not just for Israel, or for the Jewish Read more…
Angela Rayner led a moment’s silence at Labour party conference in Liverpool today, in memory of those killed in Hamas’s terror attacks against Israel. She said that “I know you will all be appalled by the shocking situation and events in Israel where over one thousand people including 10 British Read more…
Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy rushed back to London from Labour party conference in Liverpool on Monday to attend a vigil in central London as thousands of people gathered at Downing Street to show their support for Israel. Lammy, told attendees: “I stand amongst you deeply understanding the trauma amongst Read more…
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for Progressive Britain Click here to read the original. If Labour wins the next general election, the political and economic landscape of the Middle East will look rather different than when Tony Blair arrived in Downing Street in 1997. Although already Read more…
Israel and Saudi Arabia are moving towards a historic US-brokered deal to normalise diplomatic ties, the White House said on Friday. US President Joe Biden hopes to score an election-year diplomatic victory by securing recognition of the Jewish state by Saudi Arabia next year. “All sides have hammered out, I Read more…
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted some of Israel’s most senior security officials for a meeting at his office on Sunday which excluded national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir. This was not the first time that the hard right nationalist Ben Gvir, whose brief includes authority over the police, has not been Read more…
Ahead of Labour’s annual conference next week, LFI has released its latest policy pamphlet: Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government exclusively in the Guardian today. Priorities for the next Labour government Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government offers 26 policy recommendations to a wide Read more…
As the UN General Assembly convened last week, longstanding speculation around the potential for a normalisation deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia has reached a fever pitch. What happened On Wednesday, Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman claimed in an interview with Fox News that “every day we get closer” to his Read more…
The UN’s special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, reported that terror groups in the West Bank are currently better armed than the Palestinian Authority security forces. He told the World Summit of Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya that there is a “very significant uptick in the availability of very Read more…
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will reportedly meet Turkey’s recently re-elected president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the UN General Assembly. The two leaders were due to meet in July, but Netanyahu postponed his visit after undergoing surgery to have a pacemaker implanted. The visit would have been the first by Read more…
In today’s House of Lords debate on UK support for the Abraham Accords, two Labour peers urged the UK government to more proactively support the Accords on the global stage. Lord Mendelsohn declared the Accords “one of the single most transformational moments in the Middle East”, and urged the UK Read more…
A rift is beginning to open within the coalition government. The non-haredi parties, Likud, Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit, are facing serious threats from the Haredi parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism (UTJ), that would end the coalition government and lead to an election being called. The disagreement is over Read more…