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investigative journalist - findings seen in The Guardian, The Sunday Times etc. ex-Bellingcat. leaks and tips: ignat_ostanin@me.com
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May 4, 2020 31 tweets 8 min read
Exclusive: 1)While Hunter Biden served on Burisma board, his employer secretly kept a Crimean oil business, despite Joe Biden’s demands for sanctions over Crimea 2)Bank account used to pay directors, including Hunter, received funds from Belize company linked to embezzlement 1/30 Part 1: During Hunter Biden’s time on the Burisma Holdings board, Burisma’s Crimean oil & natural gas subsidiary KrymTopEnergoServis was re-registered in Russia and kept operating. While this was happening, VP Joe Biden was demanding tough sanctions on Russia over Crimea 2/30
Dec 7, 2019 8 tweets 3 min read
New: Jeremy Corbyn was part of Committee for Peace in the Balkans, which failed to condemn the genocide of 8,372 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica. Instead, it condemned NATO intervention as “one-sided” and said “all sides have committed atrocities”. Thread: 2. A rival group of Labour MPs, Labour Friends of Bosnia, put out a statement at the same time (Oct 1995), saying “Fifty years after the defeat of Hitler, a quarter of a million have died in another ethnic holocaust in Europe. The international community has the means to stop it”
Dec 5, 2019 7 tweets 3 min read
1. NEW: video shows Jeremy Corbyn embraced Raed Salah in April 2012, after discussing a judgement that found Salah claimed Jews make bread with the blood of children. The decision overruled his deportation on a technicality. 5 years later, Salah’s followers killed two Israelis 2. Corbyn embraced Salah at the end of a discussion of a court decision that said of Salah’s sermon: “we do not find this comment could be taken to be anything other than a reference to the blood libel against Jews”. See paragraph 59, page 21 dropbox.com/s/kmdd3h21cz29…
Jul 18, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn and his officials repeatedly held meetings with a reporter who Tweeted “Problem Solved: Why not just move all the Zionist Jews to the middle of the Mexican Desert?” at Jewish actress Mayim Bialik, and used the racist slur “zionazi” 1/4 Corbyn and his team were consulted by Denis Rogatyuk, linked to the Venezuelan State funded outlet Telesur. One meeting was with Labour Shadow Cabinet member Dan Carden. Rogatyuk appears to have drummed up support for Jorge Glas and Rafael Correa 2/4
Apr 24, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
EXCL: Seumas Milne, @jeremycorbyn's Chief of Communications and close friend, complained that Gerry Adams and Omar al-Bashar didn't get a knighthood and Shimon Peres did saying “I think what that illustrates is where the interests lie”. Speaking at a 2009 event, Milne elaborated on the antisemitic slur that Jews and Israel control the media, saying the view that “the Zionist movement has a grip on the media… sometimes exaggerates the mechanisms through which that influence is exerted”,
Apr 2, 2019 14 tweets 4 min read
Exclusive: In 2011, Jeremy Corbyn wrote an article defending “blood libel” cleric Raed Salah, ending it with “It’s time that Western governments stood up to the zionist lobby which seems to conflate criticism of Israel with anti-semitism.” This message fits into a pattern of behavior from Corbyn. He frequently cited the Goldstone Report, until in 2011 Goldstone retracted the claim that Israel deliberately targeted civilians. To Corbyn this was the result of “Zionist lobbyists” of applying “huge pressure”
Mar 20, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn wrote “Looking back, the post-war Labour Government under Attlee conceded to the Zionist forces, allowing the state of Israel to be established, and instantly recognised it.” web.archive.org/web/2019032009… Corbyn wrote this in 2011, as part of a report by Labour MPs who travelled to Lebanon. Their visit was organized with the help of the Palestinian Return Centre. Corbyn’s article starts on page 20.
Mar 16, 2019 7 tweets 3 min read
I found evidence Corbyn WAS a member of the editorial board that wrote “the British only sit up and take notice when they are bombed into it”. SA, to which Corbyn often contributed, wrote he was involved in setting up the National Briefing Supplement and was at a board meeting Below is the notorious National Briefing Supplement editorial – it referred to the Brighton bombing as a “big bang” and spelled out solidarity and support for the Irish Republican movement “though we may not always agree with all their tactics or policies”