She added that while the majority of people on the marches wanted to see more aid getting into Gaza, "I think politicians, all of us, we've got to a duty and a responsibility to choose our language with care, but also to act in a way that sets...
The decision caused deep divisions within the party; many members objected that alliance would undermine Labour’s position of support for peace negotiations with the Palestinians. In January 2011 Barak and four Labour members of the Knesset split away from Labour, forming a new party that remained...
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Mr Lammy said the position is in line with the UK's Five Eyes partners including Australia, Canada and New Zealand which called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza last week. However, while Labour has gone further in its language around the ceasefire, it is not clear how the pos...
Although Herzog held a prominent position in the party that had dominated Israeli politics for much of the country’s history, the Labour Party was struggling to remain competitive by the time he became involved in politics. As the party cycled through one-term leaders, Herzog was elected chair...
International pressure on Hamas and the other terrorist butchers might well have taken the steps to halt the basics reaching Gaza, rather like Israel has done. Finding ways to protect further atrocities on Israel might help de-escalate. We also need to calm the damage planned on Gaza which is...
One member said that Starmer’s position on Israel was causing “domestic fallout” for British Jewry and claimed he “failed to acknowledge” the normalization of antisemitism in the UK. Since Hamas’s October 7 attack, antisemitism in the UK and globally has increased dramatically - with som...
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pro-Palestinian position. We’ve also seen Momentum, the Corbynite campaign group within Labour, leap on the Rochdale result to say this is down to Starmer’s twin failures on candidate selection. But again, on Gaza, is Labour’s position on the Israel-Hamas war gonna have to move further...
as chief secretary to the Treasury at the time, shortlived in that position, was waving around the letter and said all this was a sort of personal, jokey communication, how what an appalling breach of political etiquette to publish it, which was ridiculous because what a great political gift...