There are growing calls for a criminal case against Morgan McSweeney for failing to declare £739,000 in donations to his “Labour Together” outfit.
But many journalists are missing a bigger question: who MADE the donations?
I’ll give you the names they won’t… 🧵
McSweeney apparently concealed the donations “to protect Trevor”; i.e., Trevor Chinn.
Asides from bankrolling Labour Together, Chinn has personally funded Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Bridget Phillipson, Lisa Nandy, Wes Streeting, David Lammy, + many more.
Sep 24 • 25 tweets • 9 min read
This is the man pulling Starmer’s strings.
But did you know that in his youth, Morgan McSweeney lived on an Israeli settlement?
I’ve been doing some digging, and I can’t believe what I’ve discovered…🧵
Little is written about McSweeney’s decisions to drop out of university and subsequently move to Sarid, a Jewish colony built upon the “flourishing” Palestinian village of Ikhneifis.
Sep 15 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Is this man a key funder of “Labour Friends of Israel”?
South African-born Isaac Kaye headed a drugs company accused in a £400m defrauding of the NHS, bankrolled MPs, and founded the investment fund Israel Healthcare Ventures.
But has he been funding LFI? Here's what I found:🧵
Labour Friends of Israel refuses to reveal its donors, but Kaye was personally thanked at LFI dinners by Emily Thornberry in 2017, Joan Ryan in '18, Keir Starmer in '21, Rachel Reeves in '22, and Steve McCabe in '23.
McCabe described Kaye as a “great friend of Israel and LFI”.
Sep 13 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
This week, Farage met with genocidaire Isaac Herzog.
Last week, Tice announced that he would visit the Israeli state.
Reform UK claim that they will put Britain first, but my investigations reveal that their opinions have been bought and paid for.
Here's what I found out: 🧵
Christopher Harborne is the single largest shareholder in UK arms giant QinetiQ and has given at least £13.7m to Reform.
Sep 7 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
1/ The infamous Balfour Declaration promised Palestine to the Zionist movement.
But did you know the document was actually drafted by a Russian-born chemist living in Manchester?
Meet Chaim Weizmann – the hidden architect behind the crime of the century. 🧵 2/ Weizmann wasn’t a statesman or a general.
He was a scientist who discovered a process for producing acetone. That one invention gave him access to Britain’s war cabinet.
And he used it to push a colonial project in Palestine.
Aug 28 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Many consider Theodore Herzl as the founder of the Zionist movement.
But decades before, there was Moses Montefiore, a British financier who set out to "buy" Palestine, piece by piece. 🧵 2/ Born in Italy, Montefiore married into the Rothschild dynasty and became rich through banking.
With money and imperial backing, he pioneered the formula that Zionism would later perfect:
💰 Buy land
📜 Put it to Jewish-only use
🚫 Lock Palestinians out
Aug 20 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
A top-flight Chilean club called Palestino predates the Israeli state by 28 years. But in 2014, a single shirt number sparked an international incident. This story matters far beyond football.👇
Chile is home to the largest Palestinian community outside the Arab world - around 500,000 people. They arrived from the late 1800s, many from Bethlehem, building businesses and social clubs that still thrive today.
May 13 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
🧵In light of Rupert Lowe's weird obsession with banning signs and services in foreign languages, here's a thread of English words that we wouldn't have without foreign languages. Starting with a word from Bengali 😅!