Labour Friends of Israel have launched our new campaign, ‘For Israel, For Palestine, For Peace’. The campaign aims to persuade the British government to support the creation of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. The $200m fund has been designed by the Alliance for Middle East Peace to boost spending Read more…
This interview first appeared on Children of Peace. Click here to view the original. In the latest of her regular series of exclusive interviews Professor Sarah Brown talks to Joan Ryan MP, Chair of Labour Friends of Israel (in the UK parliament). Sarah Brown: Can you tell us a little Read more…
This afternoon in Parliament, LFI launched its new campaign to increase funding of coexistence projects entitled ‘For Israel, For Palestine, For Peace’. The campaign aims to persuade the British government to support the creation of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace; a fund designed by the Alliance for Middle East Read more…
This blog by LFI Parliamentary Supporter Ian Austin MP first appeared on JewishNews. Trite comparisons between Northern Ireland and the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians, which ignore the very different actors, histories and complexities of the two situations, are commonplace. However, there is one lesson from the experience of Read more…
Leaders from across the world gathered in Jerusalem today for the funeral of Shimon Peres. Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Obama, former President Bill Clinton, and Amos Oz all paid tribute to the former Israeli Prime Minister and President. British dignitaries present at the funeral included Prince Charles, David Cameron, Tony Read more…
This story originally appeared in the Jewish Chronicle. The Labour Friends of Israel group has trebled the number of Parliamentary supporters backing its work, as moderate MPs rebelled against Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the party. More than 65 MPs have pledged to back the group – more than when Labour was Read more…
Russia waded into the dense diplomatic waters of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process this week. Moscow’s intervention came in the form of a proposed meeting between Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The move sought to reignite the dormant peace process by bringing the two leaders Read more…
General Secretary of the Israeli Labor Party and Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, MK Hilik Bar, has sent his condolences to the UK Labour Party and to the British people on the brutal murder of Jo Cox MP. Jo’s friends and family have set-up a memorial fund which you can Read more…
Rt Hon Joan Ryan MP, Chair of LFI, said: “I unequivocally condemn Wednesday’s terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. The brutal murder of innocent Israelis in cold blood is completely unjustifiable. My sympathies and thoughts are with the victims and their families at this difficult time. Terrorism has no place in Read more…
Harold Wilson was a great friend of Israel and of LFI. Next Friday marks the centenary of the former Labour Prime Minister’s birth. As our former Director, Lady Valerie Cocks, tells this week’s Jewish Chronicle: “He loved Israel and went on being president of LFI until he couldn’t any more. He backed us in Read more…
Calling Israel an “apartheid state” is a barrier to peace by Ian Austin MP for LabourList. This article is available here It’s extraordinary to think it’s been 25 years since millions of us sat transfixed by live footage of Nelson Mandela walking to freedom. As a teenager, I’d marched against Read more…
This article was published in the Jewish News Online. Its original version is available here A former Labour Party strategist will condemn “grotesque” analogies between Israel and apartheid South Africa, as activists mark Israel Apartheid Week across the UK. Lord Livermore, a former director of strategy at Downing Street who advised Read more…