This evening, LFI chair Steve McCabe MP set out his opposition to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel while critiquing the government’s drafted Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill. Read Steve’s full speech below: “I had been looking forward to this legislation. As the chair Read more…
In today’s second reading of the government’s Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill, Labour reaffirmed its opposition to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which seeks to delegitimise Israel, the world’s only Jewish state. In her role as shadow Levelling Up Secretary, Lisa Nandy MP reiterated Labour’s Read more…
LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written the below article for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Iran possesses the largest and potentially most diverse ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East. Yet incredibly, in October, Britain and our European allies are set to end all sanctions relating Read more…
In an interview with Jewish News last week, Shadow Levelling Up Secretary Lisa Nandy laid out how Labour “absolutely shares” the government’s belief that boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns against Israel can be adopted in this country to “whip up hostility against the Jewish community”. Confirming her own long-held Read more…
Click here for a PDF copy of the above: Letter to Rt Hon James Cleverly M.P Today, LFI chair Steve McCabe MP has written to the Foreign Secretary raising questions and concerns around the government’s strategy towards Iran, and particularly the expiry of sanctions regarding Tehran’s ballistic missile programme later Read more…
This afternoon, Israel’s Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel gave a briefing to a group of cross-party parliamentarians, organised by the UK-Israel APPG. A number of LFI parliamentarians attended the briefing, with discussion and questions on a range of issues, particularly the need for the UK government to proscribe Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Read more…
A number of LFI MPs have today added their names to a cross-party letter addressed to Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch, calling on the government to investigate allegations in the Jewish Chronicle that scientists at British universities have been helping Iran develop technology that could be used to upgrade Read more…
LFI parliamentary supporter Andrew Gwynne has today used Foreign Office Questions to ask what steps the government is taking to deal with the activity of Iranian proxies in the UK, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). He asked: The Foreign Secretary knows that there are concerns across the House Read more…
LFI parliamentarians have today urged the government to take a more robust and comprehensive stance towards the Iranian regime at a Westminster Hall Debate on the topic. In his remarks, Parliamentary Labour Party chair John Cryer MP – a longstanding campaigner on the issue – once again set out the Read more…
This afternoon, LFI parliamentarians have attended a briefing from the Abraham Initiatives, a non-profit organisation which works to promote “full and equal citizenship and complete equality of social and political rights for Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens”, in Parliament. Co-hosted by LFI and the New Israel Fund, attendees heard from Read more…
The government has been challenged over its failure to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group in a debate in the House of Lords yesterday. The debate follows reporting that the government was imminently about to proscribe the IRGC in early January, though this has not Read more…
Senior Labour party activists visited Israel and the Palestinian territories last week, many of them for the first time, as part of a delegation led by LFI and We Believe in Israel. The group, including leaders from Labour affiliates, thinktanks and campaign groups, visited Yad Vashem, the Knesset, met with Read more…