Janine Roberts: Zionist Jews Finance The Labour Party
The Occidental Observer
Janine Roberts’ article on the influence of the Israel Lobby in British politics is by far the most thorough and comprehensive analysis on this topic we have seen. While the role of the Israel Lobby in the United States has been very well described, most notably in John Mearsheimer and Steven Walt’s The Israel Lobby, the equally powerful role of Israel and its supporters in England has received only sporadic attention. Due its length, the article may be daunting to some, and in the following we present excerpts designed to illustrate some of the more important points.
The most important point is that Roberts shows that under Tony Blair the Labour Party eschewed its traditional funding base in the unions in favor of obtaining money from wealthy Jews intent on influencing policy toward Israel.
One wonders if the Labour Party’s promotion of massive non-white immigration and multiculturalism also reflects the interests of its financial backers. It is well known that the
Before New Labour was invented, the Labour party was more sympathetic to the Palestinians. Jon Mendelsohn of the Labour Friends of Israel has explained how it changed: “Blair has attacked the anti-Israelism that had existed in the Labour Party. Old Labour was cowboys-and-Indians politics, picking underdogs to support, but the milieu has changed. Zionism is pervasive in New Labour. It is automatic that Blair will come to Labour Friends of Israel meetings.”
One of Blair’s first acts on becoming an MP in 1983 was to join Labour Friends of Israel. But the major change only occurred after he rose to control of the Labour party. To carry out his planned policies, he needed to try to break the funding influence of the trade unions. So he needed an ally with ample funds.
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