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DEMANDS are mounting for an independent inquiry into the huge cash fund that Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) receives from the Israeli government to spend on influencing opinion within the party.
In a secret recording that emerged last week, Israeli embassy official Shai Masot confirmed that LFI had access to a staggering £1 million from his government to spend on all-expenses-paid jaunts to Israel for sympathetic Labour MPs and students.
Glyn Secker, secretary of Free Speech on Israel, said there had been “a close association between the Israeli embassy and Labour Friends of Israel over many years” and that allegations of antisemitism against Palestinian rights campaigners were raised to discredit Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
As antisemitism grows, the labour movement must recommit to defence of minorities while navigating the complexities of Gaza and global politics, argues NICK WRIGHT
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
UN specialist speaks out as Gaza tribunal told of atrocities
Just as the Chilcot inquiry eventually exposed government failings over the Iraq war, a full independent investigation into British complicity in Israeli war crimes has become inevitable — despite official obstruction, writes JEREMY CORBYN MP