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…
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…
Yair Lapid reaffirmed Israel’s support for a two-state solution, arguing “peace is not a compromise” as he addressed the UN General Assembly last week. “An agreement with the Palestinians, based on two states for two peoples, is the right thing for Israel’s security, for Israel’s economy and for the future of Read more…
Israel’s prime minister, Yair Lapid: “Our fight is not with the people of Gaza. Islamic Jihad is an Iranian proxy that wants to destroy the State of Israel and kill innocent Israelis.” Three days of fighting between Israel and an Iranian-backed terror group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, ended late on Sunday Read more…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Thirty: Allocate territory in Area C for Palestinian economic development In Step 22, we proposed to expand the Palestinian autonomous zones of the West Bank (Areas A and B, in which more than 90 percent of the Palestinian population Read more…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Twenty Nine: Support a Palestinian seaport at Haifa A crucial component of economic independence (see Step 25) is the ability of Palestinian businesses to trade more freely with the rest of the world. Unlike Gaza, the West Read more…
Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy was joined by LFI director Michael Rubin on a visit to Israel last week, as part of a three-day fact-finding mission in which he also visited Jordan and the Palestinian Territories. During the visit, David visited Yad Vashem to pay respect to the victims of Read more…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Twenty Eight: Action by international donors to improve Palestinian governance A viable, democratic Palestinian state rests on the strength, transparency and accountability of the institutions of Palestinian governance. This is vital for the Palestinian people. And it Read more…
Joe Biden visited Israel last week, declaring on his arrival: “You need not be a Jew to be a Zionist”. Shortly before departing, he visited Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, where he once again restated his support for a two-state solution. What happened Kicking off his visit on Wednesday, Read more…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Twenty Seven: Increase exit permits to allow Gaza residents to study abroad After Hamas’ 2007 coup in Gaza, and its use of the coastal enclave as a base from which to launch terror attacks into Israel, restrictions imposed Read more…
Young Labour activist Kira Lewis has written the below article for Jewish News. Click here to read the original. Joining last month’s delegation of Young Labour activists, which allowed me to see all of Israel and travel into the West Bank, has reaffirmed my understanding of the complexity of the tragic Read more…