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LFI chair urges UK government to take action on PA curriculum

Posted 22 September, 2020 in News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 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…

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Analysis: Israel and Bahrain normalise relations as historic UAE agreement is signed

Posted 16 September, 2020 in Analysis, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Photo courtesy Tel Aviv Municipality In the third announcement of its kind in as many weeks, the Israeli and Bahraini Governments announced the normalising of relations. This follows a similar agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and two Balkan states.  Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu traveled to Washington DC for a four day trip to…

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LFI Director: My progressive values mean I support Labour — and Israel

Posted 4 September, 2020 in Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories
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 home in Labour, while progressives have…

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In Brief: Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal reached after weeks of Gaza balloon attacks

Posted 2 September, 2020 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories
Hamas, the Gaza-based terror group, announced on Monday night that they had agreed a ceasefire with Israel. Shortly after Hamas’s statement, Israel’s military liaison to the Palestinians tacitly confirmed the agreement, saying it would reopen the border crossing, including to fuel deliveries, as well as the Gaza fishing zone to the full 15-nautical-mile limit. “This decision…

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Analysis: The historic Israel-UAE deal: what next?

Posted 2 September, 2020 in Analysis, Hamas, Iran, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  The United Arab Emirates is to become only the third Arab state – following Egypt and Jordan – to agree to the full normalisation of relations with Israel. The surprise, but historic, announcement of the move last month will have an important impact on the Jewish state’s efforts to broker stronger ties with the Arab world.…

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LFI responds to revelations that the government’s PA curriculum review has examined the wrong textbooks

Posted 14 August, 2020 in Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
Image: IMPACT-se 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…

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In Brief: We turned down $15bn aid because we wouldn’t disarm, says Hamas

Posted 28 July, 2020 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Photo: council.gov.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The head of Hamas has admitted it refused a recent offer of $15bn in aid for Gaza because it was conditioned on the terror group giving up its arms. Ismail Hahniye said that the proposed aid package also contained a pledge that Israel and Egypt would lift their…

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In Brief: Death toll climbs as Israel reports highest number of new covid cases

Posted 22 July, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons The number of Israelis and Palestinians who have died from the coronavirus continues to rise as a second wave hits the Jewish state and the West Bank. In Israeli, 430 people have died, while 58 have died in the West Bank. On Wednesday, the Health…

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In Brief: Shin Bet uncovers Iran-backed terror cell in West Bank

Posted 22 July, 2020 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories
Israel's security forces announced this week they had foiled a West Bank terror plot backed by Iran and Hezbollah. Shin Bet said it had uncovered a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine cell which planned to carry out attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers. "The investigation revealed intelligence regarding the deep involvement of Iran and…

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Analysis: Simulation highlights annexation danger

Posted 15 July, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Photo: B1408, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons An influential Israeli think tank has published the results of a “war game” simulating the dangers of Benjamin Netanyahu attempting to annex parts of the West Bank. The report from the Institute for National Security Studies identifies a series of resulting “explosive events”, rising violence affecting Israelis and Palestinians, and…

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