EXCLUSIVE: Over the weekend, I have been contacted by THREE Labour whistleblowers.
Their allegations about Morgan McSweeney and his associates are shocking and raise major questions about the nature of Keir Starmer’s rise to power.
Here’s what they told me: 🧵
At the same time as taking over Labour Together, Morgan McSweeney set up the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, supposedly aimed at “countering online antisemitism” but conveniently stationed in the SAME BUILDING as LT.
McSweeney’s co-director at CCDH was Simon Clark.
Clark was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, apparently “leading their work on violent white supremacy” + “informing the White House’s Domestic Terrorism strategy”.
He is also a fellow at the Atlantic Council + Foreign Policy for America think tanks.
Foreign Policy for America’s board includes former Obama administration staff, retired Exxon execs, and Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of pro-Israeli lobby group “J Street”.
In 2018, the Atlantic Council’s top donors were Facebook and the British government.
Clark was previously a partner at Kaya Partners, an offshoot of Macro Advisory Partners.
MAP was co-founded in 2013 by David Claydon, a former adviser and donor to David Miliband.
In 2015, three months after stepping down as head of MI6, John Sawers became chairman of MAP.
A former Labour staffer, Simon*, claims that McSweeney was deliberately inserted into the Labour Party and later became Starmer’s “handler”. He also alleges that compromising material was presented to keep Starmer “in line”.
CCDH’s Chief Operating Officer is Jemma Levene, a Times of Israel blogger.
Levene previously worked at “Hope not Hate”, which supported McSweeney’s 2008-10 campaign in Barking & Dagenham.
In 2024, CCDH’s “annual priorities” included “Kill Musk’s Twitter”.
More recently, following McSweeney’s CCDH playbook, new Labour propaganda vehicles are beginning to emerge.
As @jmcevoy_2 reported last week, a digital communications agency called “411” is now offering cash payments for posting pro-Labour + anti-Reform content online.
411 was set up last year and is staffed by former Labour officials.
This includes Assaf Kaplan, a former Israeli intelligence officer who was made Labour’s “Social Listening + Organising Manager” in January 2021.
Last week, Kaplan attended the Labour conference.
Last week, Labour Friends of Israel launched “Voices for Change”, another propaganda vehicle resembling McSweeney’s earlier operations, “to amplify and share the voices of Israeli changemakers”.
Initial contributors inc. Peter Lerner, a former spokesman for the Israeli military.
I’ve also been told of widespread Labour Together corruption in the run up to the 2024 general election, with local parliamentary candidates systematically dumped in favour of LT picks with no connection to the area and internal votes allegedly rigged.
A 2024 prospective parliamentary Labour candidate in London, Sara*, told me of being dragged before a now infamous three-person committee: Luke Akehurst, Sharma Tatler, + Anu Prashar.
“I was given 5 minutes notice + then told I wasn’t suitable with no right to appeal.”
Tom*, a current Labour activist and member based in east London, works for a major British financial institution. He informed me that a group known as "Labour YIMBY" offered the bank’s execs 1-1 meetings with high ranking ministers in exchange for cash donations to the party.
“We were shocked, but we turned them down”, he said. Tom also spoke of a culture of fear surrounding McSweeney: “Everyone is so scared to speak, and people are getting suspended for anything.”
Sara told me: “You have to prove your loyalty by being mean + nasty…it’s a cesspit.”
Tom alleges that multiple Labour Together picks overspent on candidacy campaigns, but infringements were overlooked to ensure their selection.
“They were hiring companies that charge £20-30k for a website when their overall budget was £10k.”
Yet again, the McSweeney playbook.
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This is the Labour MP “giving up” his seat for Andy Burnham.
Josh Simons is a member of the Israel APPG, which states that its purpose is “to unite parliamentarians…who are proud to be friends of Israel.”
Now, he wants to help topple Keir Starmer.
Here’s why:🧵
The Israel APPG’s co-chair is Damian Egan, who is also a vice-chair of the Labour Friends of Israel lobby group.
Egan’s partner is Yossi Felberbaum, a former IDF operative who used to recruit officers from the deadly Unit 8200.
At the 2024 conference of the Jewish Labour Movement, Simons spoke alongside former Israeli spy Assaf Kaplan at an event that promised to teach the audience “how to run a good campaign”.
Kaplan served in Unit 8200, an Israeli military intelligence outfit, before joining Labour.
With Keir Starmer in meltdown mode, this man is being presented as the saviour of the Labour Party.
But did you know that last time Andy Burnham stood for leader, he pledged that his FIRST foreign trip would be to Israel?
Here’s what else I’ve discovered:🧵
During the last Labour administration, Andy Burnham’s principal adviser was Jennifer Gerber.
In 2010, Gerber was appointed director of lobby group Labour Friends of Israel, which she led for the next decade.
LFI refuses to reveal its donors.
In 2016, then Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham was one of the Labour MPs who “flocked” to support Labour Friends of Israel under Jennifer Gerber’s leadership.
He was joined by then Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry, Jess Phillips, and Dan Jarvis, amongst others.
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.
For the last three weeks, I’ve been reporting live from Birmingham Crown Court.
Majid Novsarka faces up to 14 years in prison, solely on the basis of social media posts.
Here’s what the jury were NOT told:🧵
Mr. Novsarka is accused of inviting and/or expressing support for a proscribed organisation (Hamas).
Hamas was proscribed in its entirety in the UK in November 2021 by then Home Secretary Priti Patel.
Patel had also attempted to funnel British aid money to the Israeli military.
Four years before her proscription of Hamas, Patel was forced to resign from government after conducting secret, unauthorised meetings with Israeli ministers, including Benjamin Netanyahu.
The meetings were arranged by Stuart Polak, a director of Conservative Friends of Israel.