The leadership of the British Labor Party , which won the last elections held in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, breaking 14 years of conservative hegemony, received hundreds of thousands of pounds from pro-Israel financiers and lobbyists .
As revealed by the site Declassified UK , pro-Israel lobbyists “donated” 13 of the 25 members of Keir Starmer's current pirate Labor cabinet since they were first elected as MPs.
The list of recipients includes the Prime Minister's deputy, Angela Rayner ; the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves ; the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy and the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper .
Another beneficiary is Jonathan Reynolds , who will oversee future arms exports to Israel as UK trade secretary. So does Labor Party campaign strategist Pat McFadden , whose responsibilities now include National Security.
Some of the donations were made by the Labor Friends of Israel (LFI), one of the pressure groups. Reeves , McFadden , Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds and Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle , were recently listed as vice-presidents of Labor Friends of Israel .
Other important financiers of British Labor were the pro-Israeli businessmen Trevor Chinn and Stuart Roden .
As could be established, the total value of the “donations” made by pro-Israel lobbyists amounts to more than 300,000 pounds . About $390,000 .
This explains the phenomenal campaign that candidate Keir Starmer carried out in the United Kingdom in favor of Israel and the use of force against the Palestinian people by the Israeli State. He even went so far as to defend water and electricity cuts in the Gaza Strip.
It should be noted that The Jerusalem Post highlighted that “Keir Starmer, a centrist who worked to combat anti-Semitism in his party, has become the prime minister of the United Kingdom after the Labor Party's landslide victory in the elections.”
The Labor Friends of Israel organization keeps its funders secret, but during an undercover Al Jazeera documentary in 2017 it was revealed that it had close relations with the Israeli embassy in London . At the time, the organisation's parliamentary official, Michael Rubin , was secretly filmed saying that Labor Friends of Israel and even the Israeli embassy itself "work very closely together, but a lot of that happens behind the scenes" . Even former Labor MP and chair of Labor Friends of Israel, Joan Ryan , was also filmed discussing a possible million-pound payment with an Israeli embassy official .
In addition, the European Leadership Network (ELNET), a pressure group that aims to strengthen ties between Israel and Europe , has paid for the visit to Israel of the British Cabinet's Chief Health Officer, Wes Streeting , and Bridget Phillipson 's parliamentary staff. .
As a parliamentary adviser who was part of a delegation of Labor Party advisers to Israel last year told openDemocracy , the trip was supposed to represent an opportunity to improve dialogue and understanding in the Middle East, but “there was “a clear and obvious agenda to ensure that people had a pro-Israel stance when entering the government.”
The adviser added that after returning to the UK, a senior official at the Israeli embassy asked him: "Did you enjoy the trip we sent you on?"
Among the funders of the European Leadership Network is American billionaire Bernie Marcus , a supporter of Donald Trump and a major donor to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
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