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Some 13 of the 31 members of Labour\u2019s shadow cabinet<\/a> have received donations from a prominent pro-Israel lobby group or individual funder, it can be revealed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of recipients includes party leader Keir Starmer, his deputy Angela Rayner, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy, and even the former vice-chair of Labour Friends of Palestine, Lisa Nandy, who is now shadow international development minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These donations were provided by Labour Friends of Israel<\/a> (LFI), a pro-Israel lobby group which takes MPs on \u201cfact-finding\u201d missions to the region, and Sir Trevor Chinn<\/a>, a multi-millionaire business tycoon and long-time pro-Israel lobbyist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than half of Starmer\u2019s shadow cabinet are listed<\/a> as parliamentary supporters or officers of LFI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group was established<\/a> in 1957 to \u201cact as a bridge linking [Israeli prime minister David Ben Gurion\u2019s party] Mapai\u2026 with the Labour Movement in Great Britain\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has since described<\/a> itself as \u201ca Westminster based lobby group working within the British Labour Party to promote the State of Israel\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Labour Friends of Israel<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

LFI does not disclose its funders, but was revealed<\/a> during an undercover Al Jazeera documentary in 2017 to have close relations with the Israeli embassy in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organisation\u2019s parliamentary officer, for instance, admitted<\/a> on camera that LFI and the Israeli embassy \u201cwork really closely together, but a lot of it is behind the scenes\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of LFI\u2019s main activities is to fund Labour MPs to go on \u201cfact-finding\u201d missions to Israel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Declassified<\/em> has found that since 2002, LFI has contributed<\/a> over \u00a3150,000 towards such activities. Between 2001 and 2009, LFI took<\/a> more Labour MPs on trips abroad than any other lobby group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Eight members of Starmer\u2019s shadow cabinet have received money from LFI to travel to Israel”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Eight members of Starmer\u2019s shadow cabinet have received money from LFI to travel to Israel since being elected MPs. This includes David Lammy, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting, shadow business, energy, and industrial strategy secretary Jonathan Reynolds, and shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A further recipient of travel funds is shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, who is currently a parliamentary vice-chair of LFI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The value of the trips for the members of the shadow cabinet amounts to over \u00a317,000, with additional expenses in Israel frequently covered<\/a> by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LFI has also donated<\/a> to Wayne David, the shadow foreign minister for the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Essential strategic partner\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are proud of Labour\u2019s record in government to strengthen the ties between Britain and Israel\u201d, LFI\u2019s website states<\/a>. \u201cWe view Israel as an essential strategic partner in the Middle East\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July 2022, David Lammy\u00a0made<\/a>\u00a0an unpublicised trip to Israel which was organised mainly by the Labour party but with the help of LFI,\u00a0Declassified<\/em>\u00a0understands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lammy\u2019s visit came after a number of human rights organisations, including Amnesty International<\/a>, Human Rights Watch<\/a> and B\u2019tselem<\/a>, had criticised Israel\u2019s practice of apartheid against Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Rubin, LFI\u2019s director, noted<\/a> that Lammy\u2019s \u201cfirst visit to Israel as Shadow Foreign Secretary is an important moment in the restoration of Labour\u2019s deep and historic ties of friendship with the Jewish state\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Starmer has described LFI as ‘an invaluable source of energy and ideas for me and my team’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Keir Starmer has addressed a number of LFI events. In a keynote speech to its annual lunch in November 2021, he repeated<\/a> the racist and colonial adage that Israel was founded by \u201csocial democrats who made the desert flower\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, Starmer addressed<\/a> the LFI reception at the Labour party conference in Liverpool, describing the lobby group as \u201can invaluable source of energy and ideas for me and my team\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of 31 October, just four of the 79 MPs and MSPs listed as LFI supporters or officers have signed<\/a> a parliamentary Early Day Motion which calls for \u201can immediate de-escalation and cessation of hostilities\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also calls for \u201cthe end of the total siege of Gaza\u201d in order \u201cto guarantee international humanitarian law is upheld and that civilians are protected\u201d. No members of the shadow cabinet have signed the motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pro-Israel lobbying<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sir Trevor Chinn is a British multi-millionaire who has spent<\/a> decades working in the motor industry, chairing such organisations as the AA, the RAC, and Kwikfit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinn is also a longstanding pro-Israel lobbyist. Since the 1980s, he has funded<\/a> LFI and Conservative Friends of Israel and played<\/a> a leading role in groups such as Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM<\/a>) and the Jewish Leadership Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/em> described<\/a> BICOM in 2009 as \u201cBritain\u2019s most active pro-Israeli lobbying organisation \u2013 which flies journalists to Israel on fact-finding trips and organises access to senior government figures\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It added that the organisation had \u201creceived nearly \u00a31.4m in two years from a billionaire donor whose father made a fortune manufacturing arms in Israel\u201d, referring to Poju Zabludowicz, a London-based business tycoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starmer received<\/a> a \u00a350,000 donation from Chinn during his campaign for the Labour leadership in 2020 \u2013 and failed to declare this until after he\u2019d won the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Declassified<\/em> has found that Chinn has donated to eight other members of the shadow cabinet, including Rayner, Lammy, Reeves, Streeting, shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson, shadow work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, and shadow environment secretary Steve Reed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remarkably, Lisa Nandy<\/a>, a former vice-chair of Labour Friends of Palestine, has also accepted<\/a> money from Chinn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The value of Chinn\u2019s donations to Starmer and members of his shadow cabinet amounts to almost \u00a3200,000. In a speech to LFI\u2019s annual lunch in 2022, Reeves thanked<\/a> Chinn for \u201cyour friendship and your invaluable support to Keir and our party\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinn is also one of the key bankrollers of Labour Together, recently described<\/a> in Politico<\/em> as a \u201chighly influential think tank quietly shaping the direction of the party\u201d. Chinn has furnished<\/a> the group with over \u00a3360,000 over recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annexation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While Chinn supports a number of pro-Israel initiatives in Britain, he is not reflexively supportive of Israeli government policy. In 2020, he signed<\/a> an open letter warning that Israel\u2019s annexation of the West Bank \u201cposes an existential threat to the traditions of Zionism in Britain, and to Israel as we know it\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter continued that: \u201cAnnexation would be a shot in the arm for the BDS [Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment] movement and the delegitimisation of Israel. It will take calls for sanctions against Israel away from the fringes of the far-left and catapult them into the mainstream of the political discourse\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other forms of lobbying don\u2019t make it onto the register of interests. As Electronic Intifada revealed<\/a>, Steve Reed recently met with Chinn and others to discuss Labour policy on the BDS movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSteve will never accept attempts to exceptionalize and delegitimize Israel\u201d, leaked minutes from the meeting noted<\/a>. \u201cSteve committed to discuss with the Whips and the Leader\u2019s Office about legislation on BDS\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke Akehurst, a member of Labour\u2019s governing body, the National Executive Committee, is the director of We Believe in Israel, a pro-Zionist lobby group which has confirmed<\/a> that it works \u201cwith a range of stakeholders including the Israeli embassy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is difficult to measure the overall impact of these lobbying efforts on Labour\u2019s current policy on Israel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LFI supports<\/a> calls for an \u201chumanitarian pause\u201d in the bombing rather than a ceasefire, and frequently shares posts from the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Labour party\u2019s current support for Israel\u2019s bombing campaign in Gaza and opposition to a ceasefire is also clearly guided by a reluctance to step out of line with US policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Declassified<\/em> recently reported<\/a>, the Labour party is seeking to foster the Atlantic relationship, and has been signalling to Washington that the \u201cbrief period when Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s party challenged the establishment consensus on foreign policy\u201d is well and truly over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the pro-Israel campaign remains one of the largest<\/a> lobbying forces<\/a> within British politics, and this clearly buys a certain degree of influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since becoming leader of the Labour party, Starmer has been a loyal friend of Israel, refusing<\/a> to join leading human rights organisations in naming Israel as an apartheid state and abstaining<\/a> on the BDS bill which prevents public bodies from boycotting Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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