NEW: With local elections imminent, the Labour Party fear a disastrous set of results under the toxic Starmer brand.
But I’ve discovered that a member of Labour’s NEC admitted to being “recruited” into politics by a future IDF press officer.
And he’s standing for re-election:🧵
Peter Mason currently serves on Labour’s NEC and the executive committee of their London branch. He is standing for re-election as a councillor in Ealing.
Mason has previously said that he was encouraged into the political sphere by “one of [his] closest friends, in Israel now”.
Peter Mason was referring to Yair Zivan, his predecessor at the Union of Jewish Students (UJS).
Zivan left the UJS to work as a Press Officer for the IDF.
He then became a Foreign Affairs Adviser and International Media Spokesman to former Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
Mason made the admission during an online meeting of former UJS campaigns officers, also attended by Izzy Lenga.
As previously reported, Lenga has participated in Israeli military training.
Lenga is standing for re-election in Camden, where she is Labour’s Chief Whip.
Labour councillor Peter Mason was previously national secretary at JLM under alleged predator Ivor Caplin’s chairmanship and while now convicted sex offender Liron Velleman was their youth officer.
JLM specifies that it aims “to promote the centrality of Israel in Jewish life”.
Former Israeli intelligence officer Assaf Kaplan, first hired by Starmer's Labour in December 2020, spoke at JLM’s 2024 conference at an event on “how to run a good campaign”.
But London councillors tell me that the party’s current campaigning is an unmitigated disaster.
Michael Crick described Peter Mason as “plugged into [the] McSweeney clique”.
Morgan McSweeney famously concealed over £700k in donations to Labour Together.
One of the donors he collaborated with was Trevor Chinn, who received an Israeli Presidential Medal of Honour in 2024.
Labour Friends of Israel, a lobby group that refuses to disclose its donors, nominated Chinn for the award.
Labour councillor for Cricklewood Anne Clarke accepted an LFI-funded trip in July 2023 and met with genocidaire Isaac Herzog.
She is also standing for re-election.
As a member of Labour’s notorious NEC, Peter Mason was one of the individuals reported to have blocked Andy Burnham’s candidacy bid for the Gorton and Denton by-election.
Keir Starmer cannot bear a threat to his own position, even if it means driving the party into the ground.
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