Keir Starmer, the Jews and Israel. Riots

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Keir Starmer, the Jews and Israel

With the recent election and subsequent appointment of Sir Keir Starmer as the new Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland there has been a lot of celebration in jewish and pro-Israel circles. This is because until Starmer’s election in 2020 – which was incidentally heavily funded by jewish businessman and long-time pro-Israel lobbyist Sir Trevor Chinn – (1) the British Labour party was less pro-Israel than the Israel Lobby and Britain’s jewish community would have liked with an awful lot of loud claims about ‘Labour’s anti-Semitism’ being made which even resulted in a formal report from the ‘Equality and Human Rights Commission’ in the same year of Starmer’s election to head the Labour Party. (2)

The plaudits from the Israeli government and the jewish community around the world weren’t slow in coming with Philip Rosenberg – President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews – boasting that:

‘Nobody in the Jewish community will forget the state the Labour Party was in when Keir took it over in 2020, riddled with antisemitism and—frankly—unfit to govern. The fact that the incoming Prime Minister has changed the party so profoundly, transforming Labour’s fortunes from seismic defeat to landslide victory, is an enormous testament to his personal strength, determination, and political courage.’ (3)

While Israeli President Isaac Herzog stated that:

‘I look forward to working together with him and his new government to bring our hostages home, to build a better future for the region, and to deepen the close friendship between Israel and the United Kingdom.’ (4)

Indeed, Israeli politicians were positively queueing up to congratulate Starmer on his election with the ‘Times of Israel’ detailing how:

‘MK Merav Michaeli, the most recent former leader of Israel’s Labor, tweeted her “warmest congratulations” to Starmer and “to the entire party for an important victory in the elections.”

Michaeli said she worked “extensively” with her party’s British counterpart “to strengthen the ties between the countries and promote our shared values of equality and freedom. This is no ordinary victory: it is a beacon of hope for social democratic parties around the world in an era that is becoming more and more radical and conservative.”’ (5)

‘Yesh Atid lawmaker and former Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy said of Starmer on X: “When we met he emphasized his commitment to combating antisemitism within the Labour Party, and I trust he will extend this effort nationally. I am confident that our countries’ relationship will flourish under his leadership.”’ (6)

Meanwhile jewish leaders around the world also promptly supported the newly-minted British Prime Minister with the corrupt jewish President of the Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stating that:

‘Ukraine and the United Kingdom have been and will continue to be reliable allies through thick and thin. We will continue to defend and advance our common values of life, freedom, and a rules-based international order.’ (7)

The effusive public plaudits given to Starmer aren’t surprising per se, but what is surprising is the unashamed focus on Starmer’s stridently pro-jewish stance – no doubt helped by the fact that Starmer’s wife Victoria Alexander is herself jewish although not halakhically (because her father not her mother was jewish although the latter converted to the ultra-liberal Reform/Liberal Progressive Judaism) (8) and also reportedly has a significant influence on his ‘centrist pro-Israel’ political stance as well as his policy-making – (9) which is clearly vital for Israel and the jewish Diaspora at this time with militant anti-Zionism and jew-aware European (as well as American) nationalism on the march.

His victory in both the general election of 2024 and the Labour party of 2020 was heavily underwritten by jews such as Sir Trevor Chinn (10) providing £195,210 – a quarter of which he used to get Starmer appointed the head of the Labour Party in 2020 – to 11 Labour MPs; 8 of whom which were in Starmer’s Labour Shadow Cabinet of 2020 to 2024 and 7 of whom are now in his new Labour Cabinet. (11)

Other similarly jewish pro-Israel donors are jewish equity fund manager David Menton (12) and jewish hedge fund manager (and former chairman of ‘Labour Friends of Israel’) Jonathan Mendelsohn. (13)

Nor is this anything particularly new since before the 2024 election (and since 1999); 41 out 197 sitting Labour MPs had accepted money from the Israel Lobby and 15 were directly given money by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (14)

Indeed, during the period of Starmer’s leadership to present; the number of Labour MPs who are members of ‘Labour Friends of Israel’ has actually risen to 75 and has risen further since the start of the Israeli invasion of Gaza in October 2023. (15)

This increasing jewish control over the British Labour Party is not without its problems however with large falls in Labour votes of on average 15 percent across a swathe of (often safe) Labour seats triggered by Starmer’s pro-Israeli stance and Muslims voting for independent anti-Israel candidates or simply abstaining altogether. (16)

The hidden earthquake under Starmer’s Labour party can be further illustrated by the fact that they actually lost 5 MPs - including two members of Starmer’s 2024 Shadow Cabinet - to independent candidates purely over Starmer’s stance on the Israeli invasion of Gaza due to the increasingly organized and rising number of Muslim voters. (17)

Any political party would be worried about such a situation where – despite appearances – Labour significantly underperformed with electorate (as did the similarly pro-Israel Liberal Democrats) and the ‘First Past the Post’ electoral system saved them while heavily punishing both the Reform and Green parties.

The challenge posed by both the increasingly militant and organized right (who Reform attracted a lot of protest votes from), the environmentalist left (the Greens) and the radical anti-Zionist left (the independents centred around former Labour Jeremy Corbyn [who is ironically jewish himself]) (18) to the jewish-run Labour party is significant and also potentially even existential.

Since as David Rosenberg in ‘World Israel News’ alludes; Corbyn and the radical anti-Zionist left are becoming more militant and intransigent in their opposition.

He writes how:

‘During his visit to the Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, Corbyn called Thursday’s election results a “victory” for “the Palestinian people,” adding that the defeat of the Conservatives would mark the end of weapons sales to Israel.

“This is also a victory also for those who believe in peace and the rights of the Palestinian people to live in peace, to end the bombardment, to end the sale of arms and destruction of the West Bank.”’ (19)

This political earthquake which Starmer is all too aware of has led Starmer to tolerate former Corbyn allies who are still influential within the Labour party – such as Angela Raynor (now Deputy Prime Minister) and Dianne Abbott - much to the chagrin of jews - such as Lorin Bell-Cross at the ‘Jewish Chronicle’ and Jake Wallis Simons at ‘Mosaic Magazine’ - who have continued to froth at the mouth demanding they be ‘purged’ for the ‘crime’ of criticizing Israel and jewish attempts – both successful and unsuccessful – to direct Britain’s foreign and domestic policy to suit their interests rather than those of the British people. (20)

By contrast Andrew Bernard at ‘World Israel News’ does a good job of realistically summarizing Starmer’s dilemma when he writes how:


‘Since Oct. 7, he has repeatedly said that he supports Israel’s right to defend itself; that there is no moral equivalence between Israel and the Hamas terror group; and that he would not promise to cut off arms sales to the Jewish state.

Yet he has also been critical of Israel’s conduct of the war and has called for a ceasefire, even though he has frequently emphasized that he wants a sustainable, lasting one in contrast to demands from the left for an immediate, unilateral Israeli ceasefire.

That divide between Labour and the anti-Israel left proved sharpest in Thursday’s election among Britain’s sizeable Muslim population, who are traditionally Labour stalwarts.’ (21)

Put more succinctly Starmer and his pro-Israel allies – both jewish and non-jewish – are having to carefully walk a political tightrope between full-throated support for Israel – what they would like to declare – and the politically expedient ‘pro-Israel but pro-peace’ position they have adopted in order to pacify both the Muslim population in Britain and the pro-Gaza radical left within the Labour party itself as even Lorin Bell-Cross implies. (22)



Helen Rowe writes more or less the same thing in the ‘Times of Israel’ to the effect that:

‘Labour says it is committed to recognizing a Palestinian state “as a contribution to a renewed peace process which results in a two-state solution,” but has not set out any timeline for doing so.

Other commitments include pushing for an immediate ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, the release of all hostages held by the terror group and an increase in the amount of humanitarian aid getting into Gaza.’ (23)

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And David Baron qualifies in ‘Israel Hayom’:

‘Starmer's policy platform is characterized by pragmatism rather than radical promises. He supports a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and advocates for a permanent ceasefire, contingent on the release of hostages and the exclusion of the Hamas terrorist organization from any future Palestinian government. Domestically, he faces the challenge of addressing the housing crisis and reforming public services without increasing taxes or the deficit.’ (24)

The point is simple in that Starmer and the Israel Lobby – notably his increasing number of jewish appointees and proteges such as Luke Akehurst (Labour MP for North Durham) and Josh Simons (Labour MP for Makerfield) – (25) have taken control of Britain’s Labour Party but in order to – shall we say – keep the plebs happy they’ve thrown out various bits of inconsequential red meat such as dropping the British government’s legal challenge to the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (26)

This in itself has provided a sufficient fig leaf for Starmer’s continued – but more careful – purge of the radical anti-Zionist left from the Labour party which he has spearheaded since 2020 (27) but is likely to widen into an attempt to ‘purge anti-Semitism’ (read any criticism of jews and/or Israel) from British society since – as Robert Philpot writes in the ‘Times of Israel’ – ‘Starmer’s hatred of antisemitism also has a personal element.’ (28)

This then renders Starmer’s pledge to ‘tear up anti-Semitism by its roots’ (29) all the ominous because he believes the Labour party (and Britain) have ‘failed the Jewish people’ (30) and thus ‘combating anti-Semitism’ is an absolute priority for him personally (31) because of his jewish wife – Victoria Alexander - who directly and indirectly influences his beliefs, positions and policies on jews and Israel. (32)

In turn this will be modulated by Starmer’s similar pledge to combat so-called ‘Islamophobia’ – in order to attempt to shore up his support from the Muslim population resident in Britain – (33) while avoiding overtly targeting Islamic anti-Zionist activism (as well as jewish anti-Islamic activism) and thus will end up primarily targeting White British people who either oppose Israel and/or Islam.

The truth then is the only real losers from Keir Starmer’s new government will be the actual British people, while the jewish and Muslim populations only stand to gain power and influence.

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