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LFI director: We must listen to – and strengthen – Israel’s voices for change

Posted 25 September, 2025 in Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, News, Peace process, Voices for Change
LFI director Michael Rubin has written the below article for LabourList. Click here to read the original. For nearly two years, Israelis and Palestinians alike have endured tragedy, suffering and grief that few of us can imagine. Standing in the scarred ruins of homes in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, visiting the site of the Nova music festival massacre,…

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Voices for Change

Posted 25 September, 2025 in Coexistence, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process, Voices for Change
LFI’s new Voices for Change project gives those in Israel striving for democratic values, social justice and peace the opportunity to share their challenges, hopes and achievements. Spanning six key areas - strengthening democracy, shared society, gender and sexual equality, Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding, regional peacebuilding, and social justice - we are giving a voice to activists,…

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Prime Minister meets Israel’s President Herzog

Posted 10 September, 2025 in Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Peace process
Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Keir Starmer Prime Minister Keir Starmer met Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Downing Street this afternoon. In the meeting, the leaders agreed that the 48 remaining Israeli hostages held by Hamas for nearly two years must be released. The Prime Minister also shared his condolences for the horrifying terror…

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Middle East Minister: Snapback sanctions on Iran “an important lever”

Posted 7 July, 2025 in Iran, Middle East, News
Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer MP At today’s Urgent Question in the House of Commons on the UK’s response to actions of the Iranian regime, Middle East minister Hamish Falconer set out the Labour government's strategy towards the Iranian regime and its nuclear He said: "We have long had concerns over Iran’s malign activity. Iran’s…

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Ministers push for aid to hostages and hope for Abraham Accords

Posted 24 June, 2025 in Abraham Accords, Hamas, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News
Foreign Secretary David Lammy At today's Foreign Office Questions session, the Foreign Secretary and Middle East Minister set out the government's view that humanitarian aid must reach the remaining hostages in Gaza, and around the future of the Abraham Accords. On the former, Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer said: "Aid can be delivered effectively into Gaza.…

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Starmer: UK supports Israel’s right to self-defence against nuclear Iran

Posted 13 June, 2025 in Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News
Prime Minister Keir Starmer In an interview with the Bloomberg News this afternoon following Israel's overnight strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has set out his "grave concerns" about Iran's nuclear programme and reasserted his support for Israel's right to self-defence against the Iranian threat. "It's obvious that for a long time we've…

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LFI statement on Israeli strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities

Posted 13 June, 2025 in Iran, Israel, Israel-Hamas 2023 conflict, Middle East, News
The malign activities of the Iranian regime - including its nuclear ambitions - are a grave threat to Israel, the Middle East, Ukraine and the UK. Again and again, Iranian leaders have made plain their intention to destroy Israel. Their attempts to develop nuclear weapons pose an existential threat to the world’s only Jewish…

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Labour MPs urge government to support moderate and pragmatic voices in Israel and Palestine

Posted 10 June, 2025 in Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Jon Pearce MP, Mark Sewards MP, Graeme Downie MP and Dan Tomlinson MP At this evening's statement from the Middle East Minister in the House of Commons, several Labour MPs asked questions regarding government policy towards supporting moderates and pragmatists in the region, and the need to free the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza. LFI chair…

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Baroness Berger urges government to support peacebuilders

Posted 9 June, 2025 in Coexistence, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Baroness Berger At today's statement on the Middle East in the House of Lords, Baroness Berger urged the FCDO Minister, Lord Collins of Highbury, about how the government plans to support moderates and pragmatics in Israel and Palestine in order to further the cause of peace. She asked: "My Lords, I draw attention to my entry…

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