Here's a few things detailed in my latest article, about Labour conference 🧵👇
Shadow foreign minister @lisanandy was given a massive round of applause by Labour Friends of Israel for undermining the @PSCupdates motion against Israeli apartheid
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wins…
Addressing Labour Friends of Israel at their annual reception, @lisanandy promised the lobby group she would "always, always, always" stand with them -- and said the Corbyn era was a "nightmare" now ended
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wins…
Nandy applauded as veteran Israel lobbyist @LouiseEllman boasted that Labour members who oppose Labour Friends of Israel have now "been defeated".
Labour MP & @PeoplesMomentum candidate Charlotte Nichols (@charlotte2153) posed for photos at LFI booth w/ director Michael Rubin -- who you may remember admitted LFI was a front for the Israeli embassy: “publicly we just try to keep the LFI as a separate identity to the embassy”
Labour Friends of Israel's now executive director also admitted in the undercover filming that his group can receive funding from the Israeli embassy:
Another guest of honour at the LFI reception alongside @lisanandy & @LouiseEllman was @OrenMarmorstein, deputy to Israeli ambassador @TzipiHotovely -- a far-right racist who says there is "no Palestinian people," calls for destruction of their villages and wants to invade Jordan
Of course, this was all enthusiastically approved by Labour's right-wing leader @Keir_Starmer, who also immediately undermined the @PSCupdates motion voted through by members, and promised to be star speaker at an LFI lunch in November
In summary, the Israel lobby’s grip on the Labour Party now looks iron-clad. Full article here:
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wins…
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