This man’s shadow looms over Keir Starmer’s ailing administration.
But did you know that Tony Blair met his top Labour Party financer at the home of a senior Israeli diplomat?
I’ve been doing some digging, and I can’t believe what I’ve discovered…🧵
Blair’s rise to power was bankrolled by Michael Levy, also known as “Lord Cashpoint”. Levy raised over £100 million for the Labour Party.
But Blair first met Levy at a dinner party hosted by Israeli diplomat Gideon Meir.
Meir was deputy chief at the Israeli embassy in London.
Blair and Levy had a mutual friend in Eldred Tabachnik, former head of the Board of Deputies.
Michael’s Levy’s son, Daniel, is a former Israeli soldier who later served as an assistant to Israeli PM Ehud Olmert.
Olmert called Blair “A true friend of the State of Israel”.
Levy also convinced other pro-Israeli millionaires to back Labour:
Emmanuel Kaye, a key backer of Labour Friends of Israel.
Westfield chairman Frank Lowy, who served in the terrorist organisation Haganah.
And Trevor Chinn, a director and funder of McSweeney’s Labour Together.
In 2024, after being nominated by Labour Friends of Israel, Chinn received the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor.
Two months later, Lowy won the same award, with Israeli President Isaac Herzog thanking him for “forming magnificent connections for Israel around the world.”
One of Tony Blair’s first acts upon entering parliament in 1983 was to join Labour Friends of Israel.
Lobbyist Jonathan Mendelsohn explained: “Zionism is pervasive in New Labour. It is automatic that Blair will come to LFI meetings.”
Mendelsohn has also funded Wes Streeting.
Blair was previously appointed as a “Middle East envoy”.
At the same time, he was a patron of the Jewish National Fund, the largest builder of illegal Israeli settlements.
Wanted fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu is another JNF patron.
Business Secretary Peter Kyle, a former vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel who served as a special adviser under Blair, has celebrated his continued influence.
Kyle has stated that Starmer benefits from having an “elder statesman...people around the world know and trust”.
This month, Tony Blair’s biographer Anthony Seldon bizarrely suggested that Starmer should appoint Blair as foreign secretary to save his own premiership.
But the truth is, Blair’s influence on the current government is already “from policy to personnel…everywhere.”
These investigations take MANY hours of meticulous research.
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