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Exclusive: UK funded therapy for Israeli soldiers

Post author:PHIL MILLER
Post published:13 August 2026
Post last modified:13 August 2026

British taxpayers funded “therapeutic healing” for Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza, Declassified can reveal. An Israeli organisation received the undisclosed sum via a UK charity, with 25% Gift Aid added on by the British government. Emails obtained by Delcassified show how the Yahalom Foundation – an Israeli veterans group – tells British supporters to channel their donations via its “registered partner platform in the UK”. “Processing your donation through them ensures you receive full tax recognition and enabled Gift Aid, maximising the impact of your contribution,” it says. “100% of your gift is routed directly to Yahalom to support our…

Bridget Phillipson, new Labour chair, funded by pro-Israeli lobbyists

Post author:Jody McIntyre
Post published:30 July 2026
Post last modified:30 July 2026

On June 28th, unelected Prime Minister Andy Burnham appointed Bridget Phillipson as the new Labour Party chair. What many in the mainstream media did not report, however, is Phillipson’s connection to Stuart Roden, a lobbyist with links to Israeli intelligence. Stuart Roden In 2023, Phillipson registered two £40,000 donations from Roden, the co-founder of Hetz Ventures, a Tel Aviv-based venture capital firm he set up with London-born former Israeli intelligence officer Judah Taub. According to a Declassified UK report, Roden’s Hetz firm employs: an array of former Israeli soldiers, many of whom have served in elite intelligence units. Last year, leaked…

Andy Burnham was funded by director of Gaza genocide-linked arms firm

Post author:Jody McIntyre
Post published:30 June 2026
Post last modified:1 July 2026

Any illusions of Labour Party “change” under Andy Burnham were dispelled last week when he appointed lobbyist, Blairite minister, ex-Labour Friends of Israel chair, and Peter Mandelson’s “boy” James Purnell as his chief of staff. The line from Team Burnham is that Purnell has cut all ties with Flint Global, the lobbying firm he led and held shares in until last week. But it seems that the firm has a history when it comes to conflicts of interest. Flint Global Flint Global’s current Defence Advisory Practice lead, James Clark, was previously outed as being a co-founder of the All Party Parliamentary…

Education ministers funded by corporate and pro-Israel lobbyists

Post author:Ed Sykes
Post published:3 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

Keir Starmer’s government, true to its deeply shady form, has filled the Department for Education (DfE) with people close to both corporate and pro-Israel lobbyists. And the overlapping right-wing network flows from old Blairites like Peter Mandelson and Jim Murphy to the more recent Starmerites at Labour Together. Electoral Commission statistics show us just how much influence dodgy lobbyists have in the DfE today. The rot of Blair, Mandelson, Murphy, and Labour Together New Labour corporate cronies — from Tony Blair to Mandelson and Murphy — just refuse to go away. But it’s the shadowy lobbying and fundraising networks around them…