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2017 - Videos - Unterirdische israelische
Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
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Quelle der Videos
Al Jazeera Investigations zeigt, wie die
Israel-Lobby die britische Politik
beeinflusst. Eine sechsmonatige
Undercover-Untersuchung zeigt, wie Israel in
verschiedene Ebenen der britischen
Demokratie vordringt.
Episode Eins: In Teil Eins zeigt Al Jazeera Investigations, wie Pro-Israel-Gruppen
versuchen, die britische Jugend zu
beeinflussen.
Episode Zwei: Im zweiten Teil schließt sich
unser verdeckter Reporter einer Delegation
der israelischen Botschaft auf dem Labour
Party Conference im vergangenen Jahr an.
Episode Drei: Im dritten Teil erlebt unser
Undercover-Reporter ein heftiges Gespräch
zwischen zwei gegnerischen Aktivisten. Die
Beweise werfen ernsthafte Fragen auf, ob
Vorwürfe des Antisemitismus dazu benutzt
werden, die politische Debatte zu ersticken.
Episode Vier: Im vierten Teil bespricht der
hochrangige politische Offizier der
israelischen Botschaft in London eine
mögliche Verschwörung, britische Politiker -
einschließlich eines Ministers - zu
"erledigen".
Al Jazeera
Investigations – The Lobby P1: Young Friends of
Israel
Episode Eins: In Teil Eins zeigt Al Jazeera Investigations, wie Pro-Israel-Gruppen
versuchen, die britische Jugend zu
beeinflussen.
Der Text dazu:
2017 - Video 1 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
2017 - Video 2 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
2017 - Video 3 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
2017 - Video 4 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
Al Jazeera
Investigations – The Lobby P2: The Training Session
Episode Zwei: Im zweiten Teil schließt sich
unser verdeckter Reporter einer Delegation
der israelischen Botschaft auf dem Labour
Party Conference im vergangenen Jahr an.
Der
Text dazu:
2017 - Video 1 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
2017 - Video 2 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
2017 - Video 3 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
2017 - Video 4 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
Al Jazeera
Investigations - The Lobby P3: An Anti-Semitic Trope
Episode Drei: Im dritten Teil erlebt unser
Undercover-Reporter ein heftiges Gespräch
zwischen zwei gegnerischen Aktivisten. Die
Beweise werfen ernsthafte Fragen auf, ob
Vorwürfe des Antisemitismus dazu benutzt
werden, die politische Debatte zu ersticken.
Der
Text dazu:
2017 - Video 1 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
2017 - Video 2 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
2017 - Video 3 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
2017 - Video 4 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
The Lobby Episode 4:
The Takedown
Episode Vier: Im vierten Teil bespricht der
hochrangige politische Offizier der
israelischen Botschaft in London eine
mögliche Verschwörung, britische Politiker -
einschließlich eines Ministers - zu
"erledigen".
Der
Text dazu:
2017 - Video 1 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
2017 - Video 2 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
2017 - Video 3 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
2017 - Video 4 - Lobbyarbeit in Großbritannien
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The Zionist
Lobby and Israel are a Threat to
Democracy! - Dr. Ludwig Watzal - The
Zionist agents were just caught by Al
Jazeera trying to destabilize the
British political system. That the
Zionist Lobby controls the Middle
Eastern policy of the US Congress and
large parts of the US media is a
foregone conclusion. Does the Israel
Lobby also give Angela Merkel her head?
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21. 2.
2017
How the Israel lobby is using
Owen Jones
- Asa Winstanley Lobby Watch 21 February 2017
- Last week the Jewish Labour Movement announced
that Guardian columnist Owen Jones will be the big
name speaker at an event the group is holding on 2
April.
Jones will lecture on “left anti-Semitism, the
Middle East and the Labour Party.”
The Jewish Labour Movement scoring Jones appears to
be a high-profile instance of a new push endorsed by
Israel’s government to ensure that Palestine
solidarity “instigators” are “singled out” from
so-called “soft critics” of Israel.
According to The Jewish Daily Forward, the strategy
– jointly developed by the Reut Institute and the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) – “calls for a big tent
approach that accepts progressive critics of Israel”
while also demanding “an all-out assault on leading
critics of Israel, sometimes using covert means.”
“The instigators must be singled out from the other
groups, and handled uncompromisingly, publicly or
covertly,” the Reut-ADL report states, according to
The Forward, which obtained a copy on condition it
not publish the entire document.
The Jewish Labour Movement, a pro-Israel
organization within the UK’s main opposition Labour
Party, appears to be on board with this strategy.
Al Jazeera’s recent undercover documentary The Lobby
revealed the Jewish Labour Movement’s close ties to
the Israeli embassy, as well as its campaign against
BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.
Splitting the left >>>
14. 1. 2017
How the
Israel lobby fakes anti-Semitism -
Asa Winstanley Lobby Watch - 14. 1. 2017 -
Undercover video shot by Al Jazeera reveals
the lengths to which some leaders of the
UK’s influential pro-Israel networks will go
to discredit their critics.
Part three of The Lobby, broadcast on Friday
night, shows the chairperson of Labour
Friends of Israel falsely claiming a
Palestine Solidarity Campaign supporter had
abused her with anti-Semitism. Speaking to
an undercover reporter who she thought was a
pro-Israel activist, lawmaker Joan Ryan
claimed the PSC activist had said Labour
Friends of Israel was a route to getting a
job at a bank in the City, London’s
financial district.
“You heard her say … ‘join you lot and you
get into Oxford’ or ‘you get into working in
the bank,’” Ryan says. But the film shows
that PSC supporter Jean had said no such
thing. “A friend of mine’s son’s got a
really good job at Oxford University on the
basis of having worked for Labour Friends of
Israel,” the undercover footage proves Jean
saying at the LFI stall at the Labour Party
conference in September. At no point does
the PSC supporter mention banks or the City
of London.
Ryan accuses Jean of falling for “rumors”
and claims that “it’s a trope. It’s about
conspiracy theorists and cabals.” She later
claims Jean had invoked “classic
anti-Semitic tropes.” Soon after, Ryan went
to the press with her claims. And she told a
Jewish Labour Movement event that evening
that the incident “tells you something about
why we need to be having this Against
Anti-Semitism Rally.” Ryan reported Jean to
the Labour Party for formal investigation.
The experience had a profoundly disturbing
effect on Jean’s life, leaving her under a
cloud of suspicion.
In episode two of The Lobby, Israeli embassy
agent Shai Masot is seen telling the
undercover reporter that complaints of
anti-Semitism should be pursued against
long-time anti-racism activist and Labour
Party member Jackie Walker. “Do not let it
go,” Masot says. He encourages similar
tactics against others: “Not just her, all
of the party.” “I reported that incident
with that woman,” Ryan later tells LFI
supporter and chair of the Home Affairs
Select Committee, Chuka Umunna, who was
checking up on the stall. >>>
The Israel
lobby scandal and Labour's anti-Semitism
'crisis' are intimately linked -
Ben White's - The manufactured crisis was
weaponised against Jeremy Corbyn and
pro-Palestinian activists to stifle any
criticism of Israel. - The latest
revelations to emerge from the Al Jazeera
investigation into the work of the Israeli
embassy in London and pro-Israel lobby
groups in Britain are a reminder of an issue
that once dominated the headlines: the
Labour Party's so-called "anti-Semitism
crisis". Like Israeli embassy official Shai
Masot being caught on camera seeking to
"take down" British politicians, the fact
that Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) director
MP Joan Ryan is shown to have misrepresented
and smeared a pro-Palestinian party member
is instructive, but not a shock.
The so-called 'anti-Semitism crisis' – that
involved a handful of individuals in a
political party of more than 400 MPs and
peers and around 500,000 members – was also
used as a stick with which to beat Corbyn by
his enemies.
For Ryan to claim that it is "anti-Semitic"
to describe LFI as a well-funded,
prestigious group, membership of which can
be "a stepping-stone to good jobs" is
instructive about just how willing Israel's
apologists are to drain the term of all
meaning. It is also a reminder of how the
charge of anti-Semitism has been weaponised
by both the Israeli government and the
enemies of Labour Party leader Jeremy
Corbyn. The latter occurred during Corbyn's
leadership election bid in 2015, when papers
such as the Daily Mail and Jewish Chronicle
ran a series of articles attacking the
veteran left-winger, including attacking him
through crude efforts at guilt through
(tenuous) association.
But the Labour "anti-Semitism crisis" really
got going in February 2016, with the
resignation of a former intern at Israel
lobby group the Britain Israel
Communications and Research Centre (BICOM)
from the Oxford University Labour Club in
protest at its endorsement of Israeli
Apartheid Week. >>>
AIPAC’s secretive
strategy to transform UK politics
- Ali Abunimah - AIPAC
is hoping to turn UK politics into a carbon copy of
the US Congress, where the powerful lobby group has
long quashed virtually all open criticism of
Israel’s violent suppression of Palestinian rights.
The final episode of The Lobby, Al Jazeera’s
groundbreaking investigation of the Israel lobby’s
activities in the UK, casts light on the extent of
AIPAC’s transatlantic ambitions.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the UK’s
main opposition Labour Party, has called on the
government to investigate Israeli interference in
the British political system. Though AIPAC’s
influence is increasingly under challenge, it
remains one of the best organized and effective
players in US politics.
Episode four of The Lobby, which can be viewed
above, shows Al Jazeera’s undercover reporter
attending a meeting of City Friends of Israel, a
group established with the help of Israeli embassy
agent Shai Masot to build support for Israel within
London’s financial district.
The meeting was coordinated with AIPAC and is
addressed by Joe Richards, the lobby group’s “Wall
Street director,” who explains how it focuses on
building relationships with lawmakers. “The real
strategic goal is to get the UK to behave more like
the US than Europe, when it comes to Israel, pull
them, tug them into the US sphere,” another of the
US attendees at the meeting explains to Al Jazeera’s
undercover reporter. >>>
Is Labour Friends
of Israel an Israeli embassy front?
- Asa Winstanley -
Part two of Al Jazeera’s film The Lobby dives deep
into the UK’s pro-Israel networks. It uncovers a
startling reality: many of the organizations posing
as independent support groups for Israel are
operated effectively as covert extensions of the
Israeli embassy.
Speaking to an undercover reporter, a key Labour
Friends of Israel officer clarified the need for
secrecy. “We work really closely together,” said
Michael Rubin. “But a lot of it is behind the
scenes.” Labour Friends of Israel, which counts
dozens of lawmakers among its supporters, is a
pro-Israel lobby group inside the UK’s main
opposition party.
The Al Jazeera reporter was posing as a Labour
activist wanting to volunteer for Israel. Known to
them as “Robin,” the reporter had been put in
contact with Rubin by the embassy’s senior political
officer, Shai Masot.
Masot was caught on camera during the six-month
investigation plotting to “take down” senior
government minister Alan Duncan and other lawmakers.
Masot approached Robin with the idea of starting a
youth wing of Labour Friends of Israel. But he
emphasized the need to keep the embassy’s role in
the background: “You can tell him [Rubin] that I
suggested to contact him, but not [tell him you
have] my support because LFI is an independent
organization.”
“No one likes that someone is managing his
organization,” he said, with a smile. >>>
Israeli government
cash to UK’s Union of Jewish Students exposed
- Asa Winstanley -
12 January 2017 - The Union of Jewish Students
receives funding from the Israeli embassy in London,
a six-month investigation into the Israel lobby has
revealed. “The Israeli embassy in the UK gives money
to the Union of Jewish Students,” pro-Israel
activist Adam Schapira says, speaking to an
undercover reporter. This comes to light in episode
one of Al Jazeera’s groundbreaking film The Lobby
which was broadcast on Wednesday, and can be watched
in the video above.
“Once you’re involved with the Union of Jewish
Students, they then connect you,” said Schapira. “My
sister worked for the embassy for a bit, as her
first job. It’s a good platform to do for like a
year.” The UJS sent students critical of the union’s
president Malia Bouattia on trips to Israel. The Al
Jazeera film shows another pro-Israel operative in
UJS scheming to overthrow Bouattia because of her
stance in support of Palestinian rights and the
boycott of Israel.
Israel lobby - The UJS has long been an
important part of the Israel lobby in the UK, so it
is little surprise that evidence has emerged of
financial links with the embassy. UJS’s constitution
commits it to “inspiring Jewish students to making
an enduring commitment” to Israel. As The Electronic
Intifada revealed, one previous UJS president, Ella
Rose, later went on to work as an officer at the
Israeli embassy. She moved straight on from there to
her current position at the Jewish Labour Movement,
another Israel lobby group.
Links between pro-Israel organizations in the UK and
the Israeli state go deep. In September a cable
leaked to an Israeli newspaper revealed the embassy
had lodged a complaint with the Israeli foreign
ministry that Israel’s strategic affairs ministry
was “operating” UK groups in a way that could
violate UK law. The strategic affairs ministry has
been given a $45 million budget to try to sabotage
the Palestine solidarity movement through what a
veteran Israeli analyst has termed “black ops.” >>>
Who
is lying about Israeli embassy agent Shai Masot?
- Ali Abunimah - 12 January 2017 - Israel’s
strategic affairs minister Gilad Erdan has denied
outright that an official at Israel’s London embassy
exposed plotting to “take down” UK lawmakers deemed
hostile to Israel works for his ministry.
But the embassy official, Shai Masot, revealed to an
undercover reporter working for Al Jazeera that he
was indeed working on a secret project for Israel’s
ministry of strategic affairs.
In the fourth and final part of Al Jazeera’s
groundbreaking film The Lobby, to be broadcast on
Saturday, Masot will be seen telling the reporter
that he is involved in a project to set up a front
company run by the strategic affairs ministry to
help fight the BDS – boycott, divestment and
sanctions – movement.
Masot’s statements secretly recorded during Al
Jazeera’s six-month undercover investigation of the
Israel lobby’s influence in the UK directly
contradict Erdan’s flat denial made in a series of
tweets on Thursday. >>>
Did
Israeli embassy spy on Scottish National Party? - 9
January 2017 - SNP activist Andy Murray was banned
from entering Israel soon after meeting Israeli
embassy agent Shai Masot.
A prominent Scottish National Party activist has
told The Electronic Intifada that he has “no doubt”
that the Israeli embassy official who plotted to
“take down” a “hit list” of UK lawmakers was
responsible for his deportation by Israel.
Andy Murray, founder of SNP Friends of Palestine,
was detained and questioned at Tel Aviv airport in
November 2015, when travelling in advance of a
parliamentary delegation. During his interrogation,
Murray was presented with a series of photographs of
him manning the Friends of Palestine stall at the
SNP conference in Aberdeen the previous month. The
SNP is the governing party in Scotland.
At the conference Murray had been approached at the
stall by a man who later identified himself via a
business card as Shai Masot, a “senior political
officer” at the Israeli embassy. >>>
13. 1. 2017
Geldzuwendungen
der israelischen Regierung an britische jüdische
Studentenvereinigung aufgedeckt
- Asa Winstanley -
12.01.2017 - Wie eine sechsmonatige Recherche bei
der Israel-Lobby aufgedeckt hat, hat die Union of
Jewish Students (UJS) Gelder von der israelischen
Botschaft in London erhalten.
"Die israelische Botschaft in Großbritannien gibt
der UJS Geld", sagt der pro-israelische Aktivist
Adam Shapira im Gespräch mit einem undercover
Reporter. Das kommt in Episode One im Film The Lobby
von Al Jazeera ans Tageslicht; (der Film) wurde am
Dienstag ausgestrahlt und kann im Video unten
angesehen werden.
"Wenn du einmal mit der UJS zu tun hattest, dann
kontaktieren sie dich", sagte Shapira. "Meine
Schwester hat eine Weile bei der Botschaft
gearbeitet, es war ihr erster Job. Es ist eine gute
Plattform, für ungefähr ein Jahr."
Die UJS schickte Studenten, die Maila Bouattia, die
Präsidentin der Union, kritisch sahen, auf Reisen
nach Israel. Der Film von Al Jazeera zeigte eine
weitere pro-israelische Agentin in der UJS, die
gegen Bouattia intrigiert, um sie wegen ihrer
Unterstützung der palästinensischen Rechte und dem
Boykott Israels zu stürzen.
Israel Lobby - Die UJS war lange ein wichtiger Teil
der Israel Lobby in Großbritannien, sodass es wenig
überrascht, dass Beweise für finanzielle
Verbindungen mit der Botschaft aufgetaucht sind. Die
Satzung der UJS verpflichtet sie, "jüdische
Studenten zu motivieren sich nachhaltig für Israel
zu engagieren".
Wie die Electronic Intifada aufgedeckt hat, wurde
eine ehemalige Präsidentin der UJS, Ella Rose,
später leitende Angestellte in der israelischen
Botschaft. Von dort wechselte sie geradewegs auf
ihre derzeitige Position bei der Jewish Labour
Movement, einer anderen israelischen Lobbygruppe.
Die Verbindungen zwischen pro-israelischen
Organisationen und dem israelischen Staat sind tief.
Im September deckte ein an eine israelische Zeitung
geleaktes Telegramm auf, dass die Botschaft sich
beim israelischen Außenminister beschwert hatte,
dass der israelische Minister für strategische
Angelegenheiten in einer Weise auf britische Gruppen
eingewirkt hat, dass es britisches Recht verletzen
könnte.
11. 1. 2017
Israelischer Diplomat plante den
britischen Vize-Außenminister zu
"stürzen", weil er die Siedlungen
kritisiert hatte
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Philip Weiss - 09.01.2917 - Im
Vereinigten Königreich passieren
Dinge, die in den USA nicht
passieren: Al Jazeera ist im Begriff
eine vierteilige Investigativserie
mit dem Titel "Die Lobby" über den
Einfluss der israelischen Lobby auf
die britische Politik zu
veröffentlichen.
Am Wochenende hat Al Jazeera eines
der belastendsten
Untersuchungsergebnisse
veröffentlicht: dass ein Funktionär
der regierenden Konservativen Partei
in London mit einem israelischen
Diplomaten darüber konspiriert
hätte, wie man einen großen Skandal
verursachen könnte, wie (z.B.) "den
britischen Vize-Außenminister (Sir
Alan Duncan) ... zur Strecke zu
bringen", weil er Kritik an den
israelischen Siedlungen geäußert
hatte. Duncan ist Mitglied der
selben konservativen Partei.
Al Jazeera beschreibt seine
Investigativserien so: Die britische
Regierung ist mitten in einer
dreisten verdeckten Kampagne zur
Einflußnahme, wie eine sechsmonatige
undercover-Ermittlung durch Al
Jazeera enthüllen wird.
Wann wird sich eine
Mainstream-Nachrichtenorganisation
in den USA ein solches Projekt
vornehmen? (Die New York Times hat
die Enthüllung heute auf Seite 3A.)
Die britische Regierung hat sich
jetzt entschuldigt und gesagt, sie
weise die Äußerungen zurück; der
britische Außenminister hat die
Entschuldigung angenommen.
Al Jazeera beschreibt den
undercover-Vorfall wie folgt: Robin
(alias für einen Journalisten von Al
Jazeera) stellte sich so, als sei er
Aktivist und Akademiker mit großen
Sympathien für Israel, der bestrebt
sei bei der Bekämpfung
der in Britannien bedeutenden
BDS-Bewegung mitzuhelfen...
Robin
filmte in einer Londoner Brasserie
heimlich den Moment, als Shai
Masot, ein ranghoher politischer
Amtsträger (Offizier) bei der
israelischen Botschaft, Maria
Strizzolo, die damalige Stabschefin
für den Parlamentsabgeordneten
Robert Halfon, den stellvertretenden
Vorsitzenden der Konservativen
Partei, fragte: "Kann ich Ihnen
einige Abgeordnete (MPS) nennen, die
ich Ihnen vorschlagen würde zu
stürzen?"
Strizzolo antwortete: "Na ja, Sie
wissen, wenn Sie genau genug
hinschauen, bin ich mir
sicher, dass da etwas ist, was sie
zu verbergen suchen."
"Ja, ich habe (die Namen von) ein
paar Abgeordnete", antwortete Masot.
"(Strizzolo) weiß, welchen
Abgeordneten ich stürzen möchte...
den Vize-Außenminister." Masot bezog
sich dabei auf Sir Alan Duncan, den
Vize-Außenminister. >>>
UK
MPs urge probe into Israeli plot
against politicians >>>
Israel embassy scandal sign of
panic, as much as influence
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