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  • Stop Britain's pro-Israel lobby
     
    Name and shame British “Friends of Israel”

    By Redress Information & Analysis

    19 January 2009

    Redress Information & Analysis names and shames members of Israel’s network of stooges in the British Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democratic parties; it calls on its readers to challenge these stooges and to help it expose apologists for Israeli murder by supplying it with verified information about other Friends of Israel.

    In the 23 days of the Israeli war on Gaza that began on 27 December 2008, 1300 Palestinians have been killed by the Zionist war machine, including 417 children and 108 women, and a further 5320 have been injured. In the same period, 13 Israelis were killed. That is a ratio of 100:1, excluding the injured.

    In the meantime, Israel’s network of stooges in the British Parliament have been fighting a rear-guard action to justify the slaughter of Palestinians. You will find them justifying Israeli crimes at every opportunity and prevaricating to avoid action against Israel, such as sanctions in the wake of Israel’s targeting of United Nations compounds in Gaza, for example. They are apologists for murder.

    Israel’s stooges in Britain are spread far and wide and can be found at every tier of the British establishment. They include Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Foreign Secretary David Miliband, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, Conservative Party leader David Cameron and many other serving and former holders of political office.

    At the core of Israel’s network of stooges are the “Friends of Israel” groups in the three main political parties:

    • Labour Friends of Israel
    • Conservative Friends of Israel and
    • Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel.

    Below is a list of officials of the “Friends of Israel” groups in the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democratic parties. It is by no means exhaustive. Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, say that about 80 per cent of the party’s MPs and MEPs belong to the group.

    Labour Friends of Israel

    Chair
    Andrew Gwynne MP

    Vice Chairs
    Andrew Dismore MP
    Louise Ellman MP
    Gary Titley MEP

    Policy Council
    Stephen Byers MP (Chair)
    David Blunkett MP
    Lord Foster of Bishop Auckland
    Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
    Adam Ingram MP
    Denis MacShane MP
    Alun Michael MP
    Don Touhig MP

    Convenor
    Anne Snelgrove MP

    Parliamentary Executive
    Fabian Hamilton MP
    Sharon Hodgson MP
    Joan Humble MP
    Eric Joyce MP
    Ashok Kumar MP
    Stephen Ladyman MP
    Andrew Miller MP
    Dan Norris MP
    Nick Palmer MP
    Terry Rooney MP
    Dari Taylor MP

    Chair (House of Lords)
    Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale

    Peers
    Lord Archer of Sandwell
    Lord Clarke of Hampstead
    Lord Clinton-Davis
    Lord Davies of Coity
    Lord Glenamara
    Lord Haskel
    Lord Janner of Braunstone
    Lord Macdonald of Tradeston
    Lord Mitchell
    Lord Turnberg
    Professor Lord Winston
    Lord Wedderburn of Charlton QC

    Conservative Friends of Israel

    Director
    Stuart Polak

    Political Director
    Robert Halfon

    Projects Director
    Stephanie Leven,

    Research Manager
    Nathalie Tamam,

    Secretary
    Julie Tamir,

    Membership Secretary
    Charlotte Polak,

    Parliamentary Group
    Chairman
    James Arbuthnot MP

    Vice Chairmen
    Sir John Butterfill
    James Clappison MP

    Secretary
    David Amess MP

    Officers
    Alistair Burt MP
    Lee Scott MP
    Theresa Villiers MP

    Chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel Europe
    Timothy Kirkhope MEP

    Honorary Officers
    President
    Baroness Shephard of Northwold

    Vice Chairmen
    Jeremy Galbraith
    Betty Geller
    Lord Taylor of Holbeach
    Stanley Cohen
    Michael Heller

    Vice Presidents
    Sir Timothy Sainsbury
    Lord Lane of Horsell
    Sir Michael Latham
    Lord Sanderson of Bowden
    Lord Steinberg
    Lord Thomas of Gwydir

    Executive Board
    Richard Harrington (Chairman)
    Lance Anisfeld
    Lorraine da Costa
    Jonathan Gough
    Andrew Heller (Hon. Treasurer)
    Steven Kaye
    Edward Lee
    Howard Leigh
    Stephen Massey
    David Meller
    Jonathan Metliss
    Gary Mond
    Stephan Shakespeare
    Barry Welck
Hilda Worth

    Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel

    President
    Sir Alan Beith MP

    Chair
    Cllr Monroe Palmer

    Vice-Chair
    Gavin Stollar

    Secretary
    Matthew Harris

    Treasurer
    Alexander Gilbert

    Policy and Research Officer

    We call on our readers to do the following

    • Contact the above-mentioned Friends of Israel and ask them to justify their support for Israel’s murder of Palestinian civilians, its occupation of Palestinian territory, its blockade of Gaza in order to bring down the democratically elected representative of the Palestinians, Hamas, and its continuous colonization of occupied territories with American, European, Russian and other Jewish settlers. You can find out the contact details of MPs by clicking here or here
    • Be prepared with facts, figures and arguments – read our website to remind yourself; be succinct and try not to be emotional, aggressive or rude.
    • Name and shame the above-mentioned Friends of Israel, and other Friends of Israel not listed here, by exposing them to your local media, your friends, colleagues and other contacts – and urge them to expose these apologists for murder to their friends, colleagues and other contacts, and to ask why these agents of a foreign power hold positions of political influence in Britain.
       
    • Help us to name and shame other Friends of Israel not listed here by letting us know who they and how you found out that they are Friends of Israel.

    How long will people allow Israel and its elaborate network of stooges in the “Friends of Israel” lobby groups to morally blackmail them into silence over Israel’s crimes by abusing the memory of the Holocaust?

    As the Irish philosopher and political scientist Edmund Burke said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

    Do not let evil triumph.




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