Blair's Jewish paymasters
Blair with EU chums.
In the corrupt world of today's politics, those who finance a political leader also control him. So who controls Blair? The vast majority of the finances of Blair and his Labour Party come from Jewish millionaires. Below is a list of Jews who have been revealed by the media as regularly contributing at least £100,000 to Blair and his party.
May it please your Lordships...
"Lord" Levy
Blair's fundraiser-in-chief and a leading Zionist. Member of the Jewish World Board of Governors. Vice-President of the Joint Israel Appeal. Looks to Jews for most of Blair's finances.
"Lord" Gavron
"Lord" Hollick
"Lord" Bernstein
Note:
Levy, Gavron and Hollick were given their peerages by Blair, in return for their financial favours.
Knights of the kosher table...
"Sir" Maurice Hatter
"Sir" Emmanuel Kaye
"Sir" John Ritblat
"Sir" Trevor Chinn
Peers in waiting...
David Goldman
Isaac Kaye
Ronald Cohen
Felix DennisBlair's accountant is Michael Goldstein of Blick Rothenberg.
Remember, the list is only of those who regularly contribute over £100,000 and is only those who have come to the attention of the press. Considering the influence of "Lord" Levy, it is likely to be only the tip of the iceberg.
Update from 2001:
A partial listing of the Hebrew millionaires financing the party of the puppet Blair: Ronald Cohen of Apax Partners, donated £100,000; Isaac Kaye of Norton Healthcare, £100,000; Joel Joffe of Allied Dunbar; "Sir" Sigmund Sternberg, £100,000; "Lord" Sainsbury of Sainsburys the supermarket chain; Alan Sugar of Amstrad, £200,000; Tony Tabatznik of Amerpharm pharmaceuticals, whose family is worth over £250 million; "Sir" Trevor Chinn, the chairman of Lex Service, the UK's biggest motor dealer; "Sir" Emmanuel Kaye of the forklift truck firm Lansing Bagnall; "Sir" David Putnam the film producer; Alex Bernstein the former chairman of Granada, whose personal fortune is around £20 million and who regularly contributes in the order of £200,000; Robert Gavron the chairman of the Guardian Media Group which now produces 100 million books a year and numerous magazines, and who has handed out £500,000 at a time; "Lord" Levy the multi-millionaire music publisher probably worth £20 million with marble-lined house in Israel; "Sir" Maurice Hatter the electronics tycoon, donated £1 million; David Goldman the chairman of a telecommunications equipment supplier, donated £1 million; John Ritblatt the property tycoon, £100,000; "Lord" Hamlyn the publisher, reported to have given £600,000; Leslie Silver, the Leeds-based millionaire; Norman Hyams the property developer; "Lord" Diamond, £100,000.
Source: Colin Jordan's Gothic Ripples No. 44, Sept. 2001
The Men in Tony's Life
This research is intended to highlight some of the names and demonstrates the network of influence that certain business leaders and millionaires (with a particular ideological view) hold within "New Labour". Below is a selection of snapshots, quotes and articles about Tony's friends.
Lord Michael Levy
Lord Woolf
Lord Peter Goldsmith QC
Lord Janner
Lord David Sainsbury
Sir Ronald Cohen
Sir Alan Sugar
Sir Sigmund Sternberg
Lord Simon
Rupert Murdoch
Principle Donors to the Labour Party
Lord Michael Levy
Lord Levy is one of the most important fundraisers for the Labour Party and Tony Blair's unofficial envoy to the Middle East. He met Blair at a dinner party in 1994 held by Gideon Meir, a senior Israeli diplomat, and became his tennis partner. Levy was in charge of donations to the 'private trust’, which funded Tony Blair's office before the 1997 election (which reached £7 million), and is now the chief fundraiser for the 'high value' donors’ account at the Labour Party, along with his deputy Amanda Delew (who worked with him at Jewish Care). He is reported to have raised £12 million for the 'high value' fund before the 1997 election, becoming known as 'Mr Cashpoint'. Straight after the election he was given a peerage.
Although a multi-millionaire, he only paid £5,000 in tax in 1998-9 and less than £10,000 in 1997-8 as he said he wasn't working. He runs a private company called Wireart, an investment company which was based in an oversea tax haven until 1997. Wireart paid him £160,000 (plus £50,000 expenses) for work as a management consultant in 1998-9 at the time he wasn't working. Since 1992 he has been Chairman of Jewish Care, one of the UK's biggest charities (he was asked to join by the Tory minister Lord Young), raising as much as £60 million.
He also owns a villa in Herzliya Pituah, an exclusive suburb of Tel Aviv in Israel, which he bought after selling another villa nearby for £4 million. He has acted as a fundraiser for Ehud Barak, the Israeli Prime Minister, and maintains a close relationship with him. His son Daniel worked for the Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin, to whom Levy contributed campaign funds. Both his children live in Israel.
His role as unofficial envoy for the Middle East took him to 8 different countries in 1999, staying in British Embassies, including Syria, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Israel, Egypt and Lebanon (where he was accused by the Lebanese Government of bringing them the Israeli position and the British Ambassador had to issue a statement to try and calm the situation down). He was also provided with cars, drivers and staff support. The Embassy in Amman, Jordan, arranged a lunch for him to meet Jordanian politicians.
For further information click here or visit the following linksLevy takes growing part in Middle East (Guardian)
Who will dare damn Israel? (Observer)
Lord Woolf
Chief Justice of England and Wales
Harry Kenneth Woolf was born in 1933 in Newcastle, to a rich and happy Jewish family, second-generation immigrants who had done well in the building trade. Educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh (later alumni include Tony Blair) and University College, London, he has claimed that as a young man, he devoted more attention to playing rugby than the law.
“Israel’s devotion to the rule of law, even in these troubled times, is highly laudable,” the Lord Chief Justice told an audience of American, British and European communal leaders last night. Here Lord Woolf was speaking at a dinner arranged by the Board of Deputies to honour the visit of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations. The event was hosted by Board President Jo Wagerman and sponsored by the European Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress.
Further Information:
The Observer Profile: Lord Woolf
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE PAYS TRIBUTE TO ISRAEL (The Board of Deputies of British Jews)
Lord Peter Goldsmith QC
Attorney General
Lord Goldsmith broke with convention to publish his legal opinion declaring that UN Security Council resolutions going back more than a decade provided the legal authority for military action. He said: "Authority to use force against Iraq exists from the combined effect of resolutions 678, 687 and 1441. All these resolutions were adopted under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter, which allows the use of force for the express purpose of restoring international peace and security."
The parliamentary written answer ended suggestions that Lord Goldsmith, the Government's chief legal adviser, had told Tony Blair war would be illegal without a second UN resolution. His statement, made before a House of Lords debate on the legality of war, was immediately contested by anti-war peers and MPs, who insisted that war required an explicit authorisation from the UN Security Council.
Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, added his voice to the debate, saying in New York: "If the action is to take place without the support of the Council, its legitimacy will be questioned and the support for it will be diminished."Lord Goodhart, a barrister and Liberal Democrat frontbencher, said: "I see nothing in any of these resolutions which gives authority to two members of the Security Council to decide for themselves whether the conditions for the use of armed force are satisfied."
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Attorney-General backs government
Lord Janner
Peer and member of Jewish Board of Deputies
Pro-Zionist peer Lord Janner was forced to leave a UK NGO meeting yesterday evening, reports Editor of The Muslim News Ahmed Versi from Durban. The meeting was convened to discuss the stance taken by the European caucus on the issue of accusing Israel as a racist state and was arranged held after meeting the UK Government official delegation at the Hilton Hotel, near the International Conference Centre.
“After the meeting with the British Government? Delegation, we wanted to discuss the important issue of the stance taken by the European Caucus on the issue of Zionism and racism in private," one of the UK NGO delegates, who did not want to be identified, told The Muslim News "However, one of us noticed Lord Janner with three Jewish men (one of them we believe was a security person) had somehow managed to enter the room and were listening to our conversation. One of our delegates from the Black Police Association (UK) went over to them and asked them to leave,” the delegate said. Lord Janner with his colleagues from the World Jewish Congress, left the room immediately. They were asked to leave as the World Jewish Congress was not a UK NGO.
For further information goto:
Lord Jenner forced to leave World Conference against Racism (Muslim News)
Who is Lord Janner? (Historical Review Press)
FIFTY YEARS’ SERVICE BY LORD JANNER (The Board of Deputies of British Jews)
Sainsbury, Lord David
Lord Sainsbury has given over £9 million to the Labour Party since 1996: nearly three times the total amount received in membership subscriptions each year. He was ennobled in 1997 and made Minister for Science in 1998. In addition to a 13 percent stake in Sainsburys PLC, now administered through a blind trust, he has both business and charitable interests in GM foods. He also benefits from income from trusts held in the British virgin Islands.
After Sainsbury's connections with Israel were exposed in Egypt; the Egyptians began their boycott, which resulted in shutting all the Sainsbury branches in Egypt. Lord David Sainsbury of Turville, who at present is the Minister for Science, visited Shenkar College, near Tel Aviv, to promote Anglo-Israeli Research and Development. He also spoke at the dinner of the Britain Israel Chamber of Commerce [B-ICC]. Lord Sainsbury is NOT currently a director of the company and his shares are in a trust while he is a government minister. Sainsbury also invests in Israel by purchasing Israeli products to be sold in the UK.
For further information:
Boycott Apartheid Israel (Friends of Al-Aqsa)
Cohen, Sir Ronald
Founder of Apax Partners & Co venture capitalists and of the British Venture Capital Association. He gave £100,000 in 1997 and pledged £100,000 in 1999.
Total donations given by this person / organisation since Feb 2001: £300,000.00
Boycott Apartheid Israel (Friends of Al-Aqsa)
Apax Partners & Co. Ltd - which is a substantial investor of institutional venture capital in Israeli growth companies. According to Virtual Israel "The State of Israel recognizes the recipient as one of the visionaries who have done the most to facilitate Israel's integration into the global economy and to realize its world-class business potential."
Sugar, Sir Alan
A one-time Thatcherite, Sir Alan Sugar (knighted in the 1999 New Year's Honours List) was first listed as giving more than £5,000 to the Labour Party in 1997. He is the Chairman of Amstrad and Executive Chairman of Viglen Ltd (he owns 73% of the company). His personal wealth is £585 million. He is also the former Chairman of Tottenham Hotspur FC.
Total donations given by this person / organisation since Feb 2001: £200,000.00
(Jewish, known Zionist, supporter of Israeli football team)
Sternberg, Sir Sigmund
Sternberg has extensive connections to the financial, real estate, and computer industries, as well as Labour. He gave large donations to the Labour Party when it held office in 1977, as well as during the election year of 1979. In 1998 he paid over £5,000 on “tickets for dinners”.
He is currently a Chairman of Martin Slowe Estates Ltd (a property development company), founder of the Commodities Research Unit (one of the largest commodity consultancies in the world), a former Chairman of ISYS plc (a software company with big-name clients such as IBM, NatWest, Halifax, Abbey National, National Power, GlaxoWellcome, and BAE Systems), and is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors (an association of British company directors).
Sternberg’s political associations include an appointment as Justice of the Peace for the Middlesex Division of Greater London, a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), a life member of the Magistrates Association, and elected as a Freeman of the City of London. He is also an active promoter of multi-faith initiatives. Sternberg is former Deputy Chairman (1972-93) and now VP of the Labour Finance and Industry Group, whose members include corporate heads, bankers, accountants, and lawyers. It regularly conducts seminars and discussions for senior Labour Politicians.
For a comprehensive biography go to: John Templeton Foundation - Biography: Sir Sigmund Sternberg
Total donations given by this person / organisation since Feb 2001: £210,000.00
Others worthy of mention:
Lord Simon
Lord Simon, former Chairman of BP, was appointed Minister for European Trade and Competition by Tony Blair in May 1997. When he was appointed Minister he resigned from directorships at Grand Metropolitan, Deutsche Bank, Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) and Allianz AG Holding. He put his shares in all these companies into a 'blind trust', except for BP, selling their shares for £2.25 million. He went to Cambridge University. He left the Cabinet in July 1999, frustrated with the slow pace of Britain's advance towards a single European currency.
At BP he was the boss of Bryan Sanderson, who sits on the Government's Competitiveness Advisory Group Task Force, the Company Law Review Steering Group and the Enhancing Business Performance Task Force. No other company has more members on Government Task Forces. Rodney Chase (paid £962,000 in 1998) BP Managing Director of Exploration, sits on the Advisory Committee for Business and the Environment (alongside Dr John Harford of BP Solar) and the UK Round Table on Sustainable Development. David Watson, BP's Group Treasurer, sits on the Working Party on Sustainable Development. Alan Jones, Director and General Manager of BP Exploration, sits on the Oil and Gas Industry Task Force. Sir John Browne, Chairman of BP, sits on the Government's Competitiveness Council, alongside Sir Richard Evans of BAE Systems and C.K. Chow of GKN.
BP have paid for employees to work in the British Embassy in Washington and on the Foreign Office's Middle East Desk in London. They also have staff working inside the DTI.In September 1999 a subsidiary of BP-Amoco had to pay $22 million in fines and compensation after admitting it illegally disposed of hazardous waste in Alaska.
In 1996 a Colombian Government report revealed that BP had been collaborating with death squads in Colombia. Campaigners against BP were abducted by the military and murdered. BP passed photographs of Trades Unionists and peasant activists to the Colombian Military and used the army to break strikes (BP spends millions funding the Colombian army - in 1998 they gave them an extra £39 million). The Colombian Government's independent ombudsman José Castro Caycedo carried out an inquiry into BP's environmental record between 1991 and 1997. His report was a devastating catalogue of pollution, illegal deforestation, water contamination and the dumping of untreated toxic waste. In 1994 BP received the biggest fine in Colombian history for serious environmental damage at five oil rigs.
In 1993 BP were accused of backing a coup in the former Soviet State of Azerbaijan, which installed a ruthless ex-KGB man as President. President Haydar Aliyev then proceded to sign a £5 billion deal which gave BP the lead role in a consortium of Western companies which now dominates the oil business in the region. A secret Turkish intelligence report accused BP of organising an 'arms-for-oil' deal with Azerbaijan, providing weapons and mercenaries to the new President.
Lord Simon was Chairman of BP throughout this time.
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Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation, which has about 800 subsidiaries, including 60 in tax havens like Bermuda, the Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. Murdoch owns 31% of News Corporation, which has a revenue of £7 billion a year. Newscorp Investments is his main holding company in the UK, which controls News International, his newspaper company. News International owns The Times, The Sun, The Sunday Times and the News of the World.
News Corporation includes the Twentieth Century Fox film studios, the Fox TV network in the USA, the New York Post, 200 newspapers in Australia and the L.A. Dodgers. News Corp also owns the publishing company Harper Collins (which owns Fourth Estate, one of the largest independent publishers in the UK). He also runs Sky Global Networks, owners of BSkyB. BSkyB paid for a large party for Young Labour (in the World Famous Palace Discotheque in Blackpool) at the 1998 Labour Party Conference, organised by Matthew Freud (the boyfriend of Murdoch's daughter) and hosted by Chris Evans. The party cost £20,000.
He meets Tony Blair regularly, visiting Downing Street at least every 6 months. In June 1998 he said that in some of their policies the Labour Party were "more Thatcherite than the Tories. But they'd kill you if you said that". Tony Blair was a guest of honour at a huge News Corp corporate meeting in Australia, before the 1997 election when The Sun newspaper switched sides to support the Labour Party. Gordon Brown gave a speech at the next of these News Corp meetings at the Sun Valley ski resort in Idaho in 1998. After the 1997 election it was alleged that Blair had phoned the Italian Premier Romano Prodi to assist the expansion of Murdoch's media empire in Europe.
Although their accounts show profits of £1.387 billion since 1987, Newscorp Investments has effectively paid no tax in the UK since 1988 - receiving tax rebates in some years that have cancelled out payments in others. In 1992 they received a tax rebate of £8 million, in 1993 £5 million and in 1989 £3 million.
In January 1986 Murdoch engineered a strike of 6000 workers at their Fleet Street print works, sacked them and replaced them with EETPU members at a new plant in Wapping (under a no-strike agreement) in a plan that had been worked out secretly for months. The Wapping plant took over production of The Times, The Sun, The Sunday Times and the News of the World amid large-scale and regular demonstrations and marches. The strike collapsed in 1987, a major defeat for the organised working class. On the 5/12/2000 in a speech to a Labour Friends of Israel meeting, Peter Mandelson said that Margaret Thatcher was right to be intolerant of "the behaviour of the Wapping mob".Dr Irwin Steltzer, an American economist who writes a weekly column in the Sunday Times, is a close friend and key advisor to Rupert Murdoch. Steltzer has been a regular visitor to Tony Blair and at one point was being paid as a consultant by Downing Street (Murdoch is known to have paid him more than £1 million a year).
Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth Murdoch is a close friend of Peter Mandelson.
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Principle Donors to the Labour Party
Donor
Total given, £
1
GMB
2,874,093.00
2
UNISON
2,677,295.17
3
AEEU
2,199,382.69
4
2,000,000.00
5
CWU
1,943,559.62
6
TGWU
1,803,990.08
7
USDAW
1,709,331.90
8
MSF
804,143.00
9
BAA Plc
525,830.70
10
Lord Paul Hamlyn
500,000.00
11
GPMU
448,381.00
12
300,000.00
13
UCATT
279,441.00
14
ISTC
276,393.55
15
Amicus - AEEU
237,125.00
16
RMT
219,730.66
17
210,000.00
18
Bill Kenwright
200,000.00
19
Charles Peel
200,000.00
20
200,000.00
References: http://www.cleanpolitix.com/fund/index.asp?page=top20&i=0&top20=Labour
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