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.
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Al Carns just dealt the latest blow to the Starmer regime.
But did you know that his election campaign was funded by a pro-Israeli lobbyist with close links to the gambling industry?
I’ve been investigating Carns’ financial disclosures. Here’s what I discovered:🧵
Al Carns has been eager to establish himself as an “independent” voice, resigning from Keir Starmer’s cabinet on Thursday night.
But his financial disclosures show only ONE donor to his 2024 election campaign.
The ex-head of Labour Friends of Israel, Jonathan Mendelsohn.
Labour peer Jonathan Mendelsohn is also an ex-trustee of the New Israel Fund’s UK branch.
In 2018, he resigned from the shadow cabinet after attending a men-only Presidents Club Dinner at which female hostesses were groped and sexually harassed.
This Labour MP lobbied the Home Office to ban political commentators from entering the UK, and Shabana Mahmood complied.
But did you know that David Taylor received money from Labour Together whilst they had an ex-IDF soldier on their board?
Here’s what the paper trail shows:🧵
Next week, David Taylor will complete a three month stint at the Coalition for Global Prosperity, where he has been working one day per week alongside his role as a Labour MP.
Their CEO is Ryan Henson, a British-American Project Fellow.
Peter Mandelson was a member of the BAP.
In 2022, the Coalition for Global Prosperity received over £1 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In turn, the CGP has donated to 12 British MPs.
One of them is Rosie Wrighting, the Wes Streeting aide who resigned one day after the Health Minister.
Three patrons of UK Lawyers for Israel have been named in a “legal intimidation” complaint.
I’ve discovered that the family of one of the accused gave thousands to ex-Health Minister Wes Streeting.
Another served at a Peter Mandelson think tank.
Here’s what the records show:🧵
Anthony Grabiner KC, a crossbench peer, is one of three UK Lawyers for Israel patrons reported to the Bar Standards Board in relation to an alleged “pattern of legal of intimidation”.
His cousin Stephen Grabiner donated thousands to TWO Labour MPs: Wes Streeting + Sarah Sackman.
Companies House lists 75 appointments for Stephen Grabiner, including previous directorships at UK Israel Business, the Jewish Chronicle, and the Telegraph Media Group.
In 2023, he donated a further £6000 to the Finchley and Golders Green branch of the Labour Party.
NEW: Former Israeli soldier Jonathan Kestenbaum has resigned as a director of Labour Together.
Last month, I uncovered the “IDF diary” of the Labour peer. Now, he’s stepping down.
Here’s what happened:🧵
On May 14th, the think tank of Morgan McSweeney fame relaunched with a new website and name: “Think Labour”.
The organisation claimed to be “more than a new logo”, but they retained the same company number as Labour Together Ltd., still registered as active on Companies House.
According to Companies House, former Israeli soldier and current Labour peer Jonathan Kestenbaum was still a director when Think Labour launched.
So were current CEO Alison Phillips and former Tony Blair press officer Mike Craven.