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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:🧵 Image
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”. Image
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. Image
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. Image
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”. Image
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. Image
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. Image
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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. Image
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. Image
I am determined to expose the moral bankruptcy of the Labour Party under Starmer, but I need your support.

Please consider contributing if you value my work:

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May 6
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:🧵 Image
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. Image
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. Image
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May 3
This man is on his way out of office.

With McSweeney and Mandelson gone, there’s no-one left to protect him from his own cabinet.

But Keir Starmer doesn’t want you to know about his connections to the Israel Lobby.

These are the individuals paying for his obedience:🧵 Image
When Starmer visited RAF Akrotiri in December 2024, he said: “We can’t tell the world what you’re doing here.”

For two years, the base was used for spy flights over the Gaza Strip.

In October 2023, Starmer said that Israel “had the right” to cut off food and electricity. Image
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Before becoming an MP, Keir Starmer was Director of Public Prosecutions.

Cases against MI6 officers and Jimmy Saville were dropped, but there was ONE foreign state attorney Starmer met with and accepted gifts from:

The Israeli State Prosecutor, Moshe Lador. Image
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Read 14 tweets
Apr 24
Morgan McSweeney told senior civil servants to “just f***ing approve” Peter Mandelson's security vetting.

Now, he has been summoned for questioning.

But did you know that last month, Labour Together raked in another £500,000?

These three individuals are STILL funding them:🧵 Image
On March 4th, lobbyist Gary Lubner gave Labour Together another £175,000.

This followed a £50,000 donation on February 24th, ONE DAY after Peter Mandelson was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

In December, Lubner gave Labour Together a further £235,000. Image
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On March 13th, Gary Lubner gave £20,000 to a group called “Labour to Win”, adding to the £20,000 he had given in October.

Lubner also funded Labour’s Sarah Sackman, appointed by Starmer as Solicitor-General and then Courts Minister.

Sackman was also financed by Labour Together. Image
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Read 18 tweets
Apr 20
NEW: With local elections less than three weeks away, Labour fear a wipeout in the capital.

But I’ve uncovered evidence which suggests that a member of their London executive committee participated in Israeli military training.

Here’s the TRUTH about Labour’s London campaign:🧵 Image
London Labour’s executive committee includes Izzy Lenga.

In a now-deleted Facebook photo, Lenga is pictured in a military uniform, wrapped in an Israeli flag and carrying an assault rifle.

Evidence suggests Lenga may have taken part in Marva, a two-month “IDF intro” course. Image
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Izzy Lenga is a friend of fellow Labour councillor Ella Rose.

In 2016, after being made director of JLM, Rose attempted to conceal a previous job at the Israeli embassy in London.

Rose also admitted to an undercover reporter to “working with” Israeli embassy officer Shai Masot. Image
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Apr 13
EXCLUSIVE: I have uncovered evidence suggesting that Labour Together, the think tank of Morgan McSweeney fame, is now being led by a former IDF soldier.

This information does not appear on his Wikipedia page or in ANY recent articles.

I cannot believe Labour have hidden this:🧵 Image
In November 2010, a single paragraph in the Jewish Chronicle described Jonathan Kestenbaum as “an ex-IDF soldier [and] holder of the Israel army’s ‘outstanding soldier award’”.

The claim has never been repeated since.

Kestenbaum now sits on the board of Labour Together. Image
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Jonathan Kestenbaum is also noted as “a former mazkir of Bnei Akiva”.

On the website of their UK branch, Bnei Akiva define their ideology as “a religious Zionist worldview, actively seeking to be involved in the development of Medinat Yisrael.”

Kestenbaum is now a Labour peer. Image
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Read 18 tweets
Apr 8
NEW: After Morgan McSweeney’s Labour Together operation, a new Starmer-linked think tank has been popping up on X.

An account with 7k followers, but their ads receive millions of views.

I’ve been investigating “Labour Future” and its links to McSweeney.

Here’s what I found:🧵 Image
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Labour Future Limited was dissolved in 2022, but was reborn as “Labour Future (2025) Limited” last August.

Their director is Labour councillor Brendan Chilton, and their advisory council includes a key Morgan McSweeney ally.

Is this a repeat of McSweeney’s Labour Together? Image
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Labour Future’s advisory council includes Maurice Glasman, founder of the “Blue Labour” lobby group.

Glasman joined Labour Together just after it was set up in 2015 and helped attract initial funding from Trevor Chinn + Martin Taylor.

Glasman described McSweeney as “one of us”. Image
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