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Luke Akehurst

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Luke Akehurst is Director of We Believe in Israel.

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Keir Starmer is UK Labour’s new leader. Will he set a new course on Israel and Antisemitism?

By Luke Akehurst
 Sir Keir Starmer has been elected as the British Labour Party’s new Leader. Luke Akehurst, a former member... Read more > April 2020

UK Labour and Israel: the little-noticed shift in party policy

By Luke Akehurst
 While the four-year long controversy over antisemitism in UK Labour has monopolised media attention, the 2019 UK Labour... Read more > October 2019

Book Review | Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By Luke Akehurst
 I tried to read Dreams Deferred in the conventional style, cover to cover. Bad idea. The book isn’t... Read more > Winter 2016

What does the ‘Corbyn Revolution’ mean for the UK Left and Israel?

By Luke Akehurst
 Veteran activist and former UK Labour Party National Executive Committee member Luke Akehurst offers an in-depth look at... Read more > Autumn 2015

Book Review |Boycotting Israel is Wrong: The progressive path to peace between Palestinians and Israelis

By Luke Akehurst
 Boycotting Israel is Wrong is a timely short book on the BDS phenomenon by Australian academics Philip Mendes... Read more > Summer 2015

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Voice of the Week

Our Voice of the Fortnight is a BICOM-Fathom Webinar with Ambassador Dore Gold on implications of Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank. A Webinar with Amos Gilad, offering a contrasting and more critical perspective, will be available in a fortnight. 

Image of the Week

Our Image of the Fortnight is Rachelle Frenkel speaking at a ceremony marking six years since Jewish teens Naftali Frenkel, Eyal Ifrach, and Gil-ad Sha'ar were kidnapped and murdered at the Oz Vegaon nature reserve in Gush Etzion, 3 July 2020. Photo by Gershon Elinson. Flash90.

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