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Richard Hermer, British attorney general and “close confidante” of Starmer, has been rallying against “inflammatory rhetoric”.

But did you know that Hermer has family members in the Israeli army?

Is Labour’s attorney general compromised? I did some research to find out…🧵

Hermer told the Jewish Chronicle in July 2023 that grew up in “blue-box” family, a reference to the blue collection boxes used to raise money for the Jewish National Fund, the largest builder of illegal settlements.

Patrons of the JNF include the depraved Netanyahu + Blair.

The JNF specifies that only Jews can buy or lease its land. In response to a 2004 legal challenge, the “charity” said: “The loyalty of the JNF is to the Jewish people and only to them is the JNF obligated. The JNF…does not have a duty to practice equality towards all citizens.”

Hermer also told the Jewish Chronicle that he has “dear family members” currently serving in the Israeli army.

The same army decapitating children + babies in Gaza.

The same army wearing Palestinian women’s clothes and dancing in TikTok videos after destroying their homes.

Hermer added: “I actively support a range of Israeli organisations.”

At the Jewish Labour Movement’s annual conference in January, he said that he wished to see a world where you can “love being in Israel”, and lamented that “somehow you have to pick one-side or the other.”

Hermer revealed that he had visited the Zionist state in his youth, + as a member of Starmer’s government “on more occasions than he could count”.

Last July, Hermer made a “low-key” trip to warn the Israeli government that Labour could change their policy on supplying weapons.

When he returned to Britain, he declined to authorise the suspension of weapons export licenses, claiming that he needed to know if the weapons were “offensive”.

Last month, Hermer refused to grant an arrest warrant for Isaac “no civilians” Herzog, the Israeli genocidaire.

Hermer + Starmer served in the same law chambers.

He also donated to Starmer’s 2020 leadership campaign. After being elected, Starmer made him attorney general.

Hermer also worked with former vice-chair of the Jewish Labour Movement and briefly solicitor-general Sarah Sackman.

Since 2024, Sackman has received tens of thousands of pounds from lobbyists Jonathan Mendelsohn, Gary Lubner, Stephen Grabiner, Michael Sternberg, Jonathan Kestenbaum and Trevor Chinn. But guess who else has funded her?

Labour Together.

Hermer is also a former officer for the Union of Jewish Students. Former UJS activist Adam Schapira has confirmed that the group is directly funded by the Israeli embassy in London.

Yair Zivan, a campaigns officer for UJS, later become a press officer for the Israeli military.

In an October ‘23 interview with Sangita Myska, Hermer repeatedly emphasised the Israeli state’s “right to self-defence” in Gaza.

In fact, occupying powers have no such right in territories they occupy, as confirmed by Article 51 of the UN Charter + the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Myska was fired by LBC after a heated exchange with Israeli government spokesperson Avi Hyman.

LBC instead hired Vanessa Feltz, who has also declared that she has “very close family members, lots of them”, living in occupied Palestine.

Myska later revealed that a LBC producer once told her: “there’s no such thing as Palestine.”

LBC is owned by Global Media, which is chaired by Labour peer Charles Allen.

Does Allen’s role affect LBC’s impartiality?

Incredibly, Hermer is not the only British political figure with links to the Israeli military. Former Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman also claimed to have “close family members who serve in the IDF” + called for the banning of boycotts targeting the Israeli state.

Robert Jenrick has described former Israeli militant Idan Ofer as a “family friend”.

In May 2021, Jenrick said that “anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism”, and last year, he called for the Star of David to be displayed at British borders.

This weekend, I received a message from a Labour activist saying that I would soon “need lawyers”, but threats won’t stop me from telling the truth.

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