Labour’s leading Israel lobby group lost another of its supporters on Tuesday. “I am no longer listed as a parliamentary supporter of LFI,” Rupa Huq, a Labour member of Parliament in West London, told local party members. Her name has indeed been removed from Labour Friends of Israel’s list of supporters. She was still listed as recently as three weeks ago. She gave the example of the group’s “reluctance to support any action against settlement construction on occupied Palestinian land.” Almost a year ago, after Israeli snipers killed dozens of unarmed protesters in Gaza on a single day, LFI lost the support of two Labour MPs after a notorious Tweet blaming the Palestinian victims of the Israeli massacre. Catherine West and Tulip Siddiq have not rejoined LFI, according to the group’s website.
— source electronicintifada.net | 24 Apr 2019