This evening, a number of Labour parliamentarians attended a pre-screening in Parliament of ‘Golda’, Guy Nattiv’s upcoming film about the courageous leadership of Israeli Labor prime minister Golda Meir (1969-1973) during the 1971 Yom Kippur War. The event was organised by the UK-Israel APPG with LFI vice-chair Sharon Hodgson MP 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…
Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Chipping Barnet, Dan Tomlinson, has written the below article about our recent LFI delegation to Israel and Palestine for the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to read the original. Last week, I had pleasure of joining Labour Friends of Israel’s largest ever delegation of parliamentary candidates to Israel Read more…
The largest ever Labour Friends of Israel delegation of prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) visited Israel and the Palestinian Territories last week. The five-day delegation provided a wide-ranging introduction to Israel and the wider Middle East, with opportunities to learn about the country’s history, its dynamic and innovative economy, and the importance of Read more…
Labour MP for St Helens South and Whiston Marie Rimmer has today urged the UK Government to take a tougher stance on Iranian state hostage taking during a Westminster Hall debate she secured on British nationals detained overseas. She said: “Iran has shown itself to be a serial offender of Read more…
Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Dover, Mike Tapp, has written the below article about our recent LFI delegation to Israel and Palestine for the Jewish News. Click here to read the original. I recently had the privilege of joining a Labour Friends of Israel delegation on a visit to Israel and Palestine. Read more…
LFI director Michael Rubin has today joined more than 100 UK Jewish community figures in signing an open letter to the Israeli government pledging their support to pro-democracy protesters opposing ministers’ power grab at the expense of Israel’s judiciary. The letter, addressed to ministers in the Israeli government, expresses “deep Read more…
The first Labour Friends of Israel delegation of prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) since 2014 last week met with the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog. What happened The delegation, led by LFI chair Steve McCabe MP and joined by Luciana Berger – who rejoined the Labour party in February this year – Read more…
Shadow Home Secretary and LFI parliamentary supporter Yvette Cooper MP has reiterated Labour’s intention to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation should it come to government after the next election. In a speech today at the Royal United Services Institute, Yvette set out Labour’s vision Read more…
View a PDF copy of our new pamphlet: Antisemitic Anti-Zionism: The Origins and Character of an Ideology Labour Friends of Israel is proud to publish its latest policy pamphlet, Antisemitic Anti-Zionism: The Origins and Character of an Ideology. This publication explores the nature and origins of anti-Zionism as an ideology Read more…
In his response to this afternoon’s statement on Iran, Shadow Foreign Secretary and LFI parliamentary supporter David Lammy MP made clear that the government must go further to deal with the threats posed to the UK and Israel by the Iranian regime. Lammy set out the case against Tehran: “In Read more…
At today’s Urgent Question on recent violence in the West Bank, shadow Minister for the Middle East and LFI parliamentary supporter Wayne David MP used his comments to reaffirm Labour’s support for Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorism, and condemned today’s terror attack in Tel Aviv, which injured seven Read more…