Israel’s president Isaac Herzog will present evidence to US officials during meetings in Washington this week which proves that Iranian drones are being used by Russian forces in Ukraine. Herzog arrived in Washington on Tuesday for a short visit that will include a meeting with President Joe Biden on Wednesday. Read more…
Israelis will go to the polls next week for the fifth time in three years, in an election that has increasingly become a referendum on the return of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Here we go again Following the collapse of the anti-Netanyahu ‘change’ government in June, the election has Read more…
LFI chair Steve McCabe has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. This year saw the 30th anniversary of the election victory that brought Yitzhak Rabin to power in Israel. Three short years later, after a rare period of hope that the tragic conflict between Israel Read more…
Labour Friends of Israel is delighted to publish its latest policy briefing, Steps to a Two State Solution. The two state solution is the only means by which to guarantee Israel’s security and to preserve its identity as a Jewish and democratic state, as well as to satisfy the legitimate demand of the Palestinian people for Read more…
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for the Jerusalem Post. Click here to read the original. This week, the UK Foreign Office, at last, announced it was imposing a handful of sanctions on Iran as the regime continues to violently crackdown on street protests following the death of Read more…
The Palestinian terror group Hamas has revived relations with the Assad regime in Syria following a decade’s freeze sparked by the Syrian civil war. Hamas, founded in 1987, is committed to Israel’s destruction and its replacement with an Islamic state. The group seized power in the Gaza Strip in a Read more…
Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid on Monday said that he “strongly condemns” Russia’s barrage of fatal bombardments across Ukraine, which he said targeted “the civilian population in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine”. Lapid added that he offered his “sincere condolences to the families of the victims and the Ukrainian Read more…
As the mounting protests ignited by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini enter their fourth week, the Iranian regime appears to be intensifying its crackdown, reportedly using firearms and teargas indiscriminately. What happened The death toll across the country is now reported to exceed 185 with reports that the victims’ families Read more…
Labour MPs have today pushed the government to take a firmer stance against the Iranian regime, in an Urgent Question in the House of Commons on the ongoing Mahsa Amini protests in Iran. In his intervention, LFI chair Steve McCabe reminded colleagues that Iran’s hardline president Raisi is a “mass Read more…
Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid has accused opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu of supporting the Hezbollah terror group’s propaganda in his criticism of an emergent agreement to demarcate Israel’s maritime border with Lebanon. The step, which was been reported over the weekend, would allow both countries to explore offshore resources, including Read more…
At least 92 people have been killed nationwide in Iran’s crackdown on two weeks of protests that have emerged in the wake of the death of Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested by the regime’s morality police, according to Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) NGO. A further 41 people have Read more…
More than 75 people have been killed in Iran as the hardline regime launches a crackdown against protests sparked by the death of a Kurdish woman in a detention centre. Amnesty International said on Monday that at least four children had been killed by the security forces since the beginning Read more…