On Tuesday 3 November LFI Chair Steve McCabe met with members of the Knesset, Oded Forer and Michal Cotler-Wunsh as part of the UK-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group. Members of Conservative Friends of Israel and the UK-Israel Peers Group also participated in the meeting. The Friendship Group, which was founded in Read more…
Steve McCabe MP, Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, has written a letter to the Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab MP, expressing deep concern about the lifting of the UN arms embargo on Iran. In the letter, Steve McCabe expresses his huge disappointment that it has “not been possible to secure international Read more…
LFI’s chair, Steve McCabe, has written an op-ed for this week’s Jewish News in which he urges the government to take action on the Palestinian Authority’s school curriculum. The curriculum, introduced in 2017, incites violence and glorifies terrorists. Through the Department for International Development, UK taxpayers’ aid funds the salaries Read more…
LFI chair Steve McCabe has written for The House, click here to read the original. Relations in the Middle East are shifting. Labour Friends of Israel will help craft a new internationalist approach to the region, while standing up to anti-Semitism in our party Labour Friends of Israel this week Read more…
Labour Friends of Israel is delighted to announce the appointment of six MPs as new vice-chairs, more than doubling the number of LFI vice-chairs from five to 11. The new vice-chairs are: Rosie Cooper MP – MP for West Lancashire since 2005. Member of the Health and Social Care Select Committee Read more…
LFI director Michael Rubin has written in the Jewish Chronicle. Click here to view the original. This week I start as Director of LFI. After five years of Jeremy Corbyn, and 10 years of increasingly right-wing government in Israel, friends of Israel have questioned if they can still find a Read more…
LFI has expressed deep concern about the latest revelations concerning a UK government-backed review on incitement to violence in the Palestinian Authority’s school curriculum. The review appears to have mistakenly studied school books used by Israeli-Arab children, not Palestinian pupils, while three-quarters of the textbooks in an unpublished interim report are Read more…
This article first appeared in the JewishNews. Click here to read the original. LFI’s meeting last week with Keir Starmer was another demonstration that our party is, as Labour’s leader put it himself, “under new management”. Keir’s acknowledgment that the last five years have been difficult for LFI’s members and Read more…
Labour Friends of Israel today met with Keir Starmer for the first time since his election as leader of the Labour party. LFI chair Steve McCabe said he was “delighted to chair a meeting between LFI and Labour leader Keir Starmer”, adding that “since his election, we have already seen the Read more…
LFI chair Steve McCabe has written in the Jewish Chronicle to oppose any annexation and and setting out five tests for a measured and effective response from the UK. Click here to read the original. As we approach a possible July announcement, a decision by the Israeli government to begin Read more…
A group of Labour parliamentarians have written to the foreign secretary urging a “comprehensive, internationally backed, programme of assistance to help stabilise the Palestinian economy” They also urge “medical and humanitarian assistance to help ensure that efforts by Palestinians and Israelis to contain the spread of the virus, in the West Read more…
Labour Friends of Israel were pleased to meet with shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy MP and shadow Middle East minister Wayne David MP via Zoom on Friday 29th May. LFI chair, Steve McCabe MP, LFI chair in the Lords, Baroness Ramsay and LFI director Jennifer Gerber participated in the call. Read more…