There are growing calls for a criminal case against Morgan McSweeney for failing to declare £739,000 in donations to his “Labour Together” outfit.
But many journalists are missing a bigger question: who MADE the donations?
I’ll give you the names they won’t… 🧵
McSweeney apparently concealed the donations “to protect Trevor”; i.e., Trevor Chinn.
Asides from bankrolling Labour Together, Chinn has personally funded Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Bridget Phillipson, Lisa Nandy, Wes Streeting, David Lammy, + many more.
Chinn was a director of Labour Together from 31 March 2016 – 16 September 2024.
He has funded both Conservative and Labour Friends of Israel throughout his life, and was personally awarded for “service to the state of Israel” by Isaac “no civilians” Herzog.
Chinn is now director of the Hofenung Foundation, a charity puporting to focus on “eliminate discrimination…in particular anti-semitism.”
One of Hofenung’s trustees is fellow pro-Israeli lobbyist and Labour bankroller Jonathan Mendelsohn.
Current chairman of gambling firm 888 Holdings, Mendelsohn is a former head of Labour Friends of Israel.
888 Holdings, now called Evoke plc, was founded by four Israelis in '97: the Shaked + Ben-Yitzhak brothers.
In '24, Avi Shaked ran for leadership of the Israeli Labor Party.
Mendelsohn leads the pro-Israel lobby group UK Abraham Accords with Stuart Polak, a director of Conservative Friends of Israel.
Former Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan said Polak “[exercises] the interests of another country, not that of the parliament in which he sits.”
Mendelsohn funded Labour MP Dan Norris, who was arrested in April on suspicion of child rape.
He follows Labour ex-councillor Sean Coughlan + ex-MP Ivor Caplin, both charged with sexual offences against children.
Epstein-associate Peter Mandelson remains a Labour peer.
In '24 alone, Mendelsohn bankrolled the following Labour MPs: previous Labour Friends of Israel head + now Starmer Private Secretary Jon Pearce, Wes Streeting, Dan Tomlinson, Matthew Patrick, Sarah Sackman, Al Carns + David Pinto-Duschinsky.
Pearce met genocidaire Herzog in May.
As the Gaza genocide began, Mendelsohn’s wife met with Rupert Murdoch employee Piers Morgan in October ’23.
Nicola Mendelsohn led Facebook’s acquisition of Onavo, an Israeli tech company founded by military intelligence veterans Guy Rosen + Roi Tiger.
Nicola Mendelsohn met with former Israeli president Shimon Peres on behalf of Facebook.
In a 2013 speech at the Digital Life Design conference held in occupied Palestine, she said: “my husband and I have had such a lifelong relationship with Israel.”
DLD is chaired by former Israeli energy chief Yossi Vardi and German billionaire Hubert Burda. Burda founded a centre at Ben-Gurion University and promotes deepened ties between Germany and the Zionist state.
Previous DLD speakers include Mark Zuckerberg + Emmanuel Macron.
Another Labour Together funder is Martin Taylor. Taylor personally gave “Zionist without qualification” Starmer £95k for his leadership campaign. He also bankrolled Dan Jarvis, another parliamentary supporter of Labour Friends of Israel.
Taylor met Labour leader Ed Miliband in 2013. A self-described “friend of Israel”, Miliband told an LFI lunch in 2014 that as PM he would seek “closer ties” with the Zionist state and that he opposed boycotts. LFI gave Miliband a standing ovation.
Yvette Cooper was one of “more than half the Labour front bench” at the lunch. Yet another supporter of Labour Friends of Israel, Cooper has been funded by Chinn, Mendelsohn, + Gary Lubner.
In July of this year, she proscribed Palestine Action as a “terrorist organisation”.
Gary Lubner is another funder of Labour Together. He has donated £6 million+ to Labour since 2022 and financed many MPs inc. Labour Friends of Israel vice-chairs Damian Egan + Mike Tapp, David Lammy, Alice Macdonald, Joani Reid and…
Morgan McSweeney’s wife, Imogen Walker.
Lubner also funds the United Jewish Israel Appeal, whose website declares “decades of experience in sending young Jews in the UK to Israel on rite of passage programmes”, which has included stays for participants in illegal settlements.
Trevor Chinn is president of UJIA.
Lubner’s son, Jack Lubner, was elected head of “Young Labour” last April.
As reported by @asawinstanley, Jack was an intern for pro-Israeli lobbyist + Labour peer Ruth Smeeth and a key figure in the Jewish Labour Movement + Israeli embassy-funded Union of Jewish Students.
Paul Myners, who passed away in 2022, was another Labour Together donor. He was a former chair of the Guardian Media Group + Marks & Spencers and a board member of the Rothschild-owned RIT Capital Partners Ltd.
Myners also gave £10k to Starmer’s leadership campaign.
Myners was also a director of the Edelmen firm, whose senior staff included Luciana Berger + Chuka Umunna.
Berger is a former director of Labour Friends of Israel. Umunna was another supporter of LFI who called Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour “institutionally racist”.
Another Labour Together funder is Labour peer Clive Hollick. Hollick was a special adviser to both Epstein-associate Peter Mandelson and long-standing Labour Friend of Israel + former Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett.
There are yet more names. Simon Tuttle of Hope not Hate, Ian Laming of Tristan Capital, William Reeves of BlueCrest Capital, Sean Wadsworth of Wadsworth Capital, and Richard Greer.
This was the money behind Labour Together.
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