[2] In 1995 Conservative politician Robert Rhodes James called it "the largest organisation in Western Europe dedicated to the cause of the people of Israel".
[3] By 2009, according to the Channel 4 documentary Dispatches – Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, around 80% of Conservative MPs were members of the CFI.
[4] In 2013, the Daily Telegraph's chief political commentator, Peter Oborne, called CFI "by far Britain's most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group.
"[12] Former Conservative party leaders Iain Duncan Smith[13] and Michael Howard[14] have addressed the CFI lunch.
[15] The Dispatches documentary claimed members of the group and their companies have donated over £10 million to the Conservative party between 2001 and 2009.