Under revisions to the law implemented during the last decade with a view to providing the electorate with transparency concerning political parties sources of funds, parties are required to record in their internal accounts the sources of all donations of more than £200 but less than £5,000 and are required to report in their accounts lodged with the Electorate Commission (EC) the sources of all donations of £5,000 or more. These annual accounts are posted on the ECs web site for public examination. The Conservative Party is bought-and-paid-for by the powerful Israeli lobby - Conservative Friends of Israel. This bribery is effected not just by big cash donations to Tory Central Office and to the party leaders private office, but to the constituency organizations of individual MPs — or prospective parliamentary candidates. The CFI — and also the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) — gets around these EC regulations by making comparatively puny donations in its own name. It then tips off its corporate and wealthy individual members to make donations either to Conservative Central Office and/or to the constituency organizations of favored MPs or candidates — without any on-the-record mention of the CFI or Israel. In one case a man who is now a Tory MP described how before the 2005 election he was lobbied by the CFIs Stuart Polak at a social occasion. At the end of the meal, Polak asked the candidate if his campaign needed any money. A couple of weeks later two checks arrived at the constituency office. Both came from businessmen closely connected to the CFI whom the MP had never met and who had never, so far as he knew, ever stepped inside his constituency. In the other case, a Tory parliamentary candidate contesting a marginal seat had gone to see Stuart Polak, where he was tested on his views on Israel. Within a fortnight a check from a businessman he had never met arrived in his constituency office. Below is a list of organisations that make up the Israeli lobby in Britain... Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel UKIP Friends of Israel English Defence League Jewish Division (EDL) Northern Ireland Friends of Israel Scottish Friends of Israel Academic Friends of Israel European Friends of Israel Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) Zionist Federation (ZF) Jewish Agency Jewish National Fund (JNF) Scottish Council of Jewish Communities (SCoJeC) Community Consultative Committee (CCC) UK Task Force Union of Jewish Students (UJS) Community Security Trust (CST) Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) Fair Play Campaign Group CiF Watch BBC Watch Honest Reporting Honest Reporting UK Engage Friends of Israel Initiative Pro Zion Yachad Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ) Christian Friends of Israel (CFI) Anglican Friends of Israel Methodist Friends of Israel Methodist Friends of Judaism Catholic Friends of Israel Baptists for Israel Christian Friends of Israeli Communities (CFOIC) Bridges for Peace (BFP) Christians United for Israel (CUFI) International Christian Embassy (ICEJ) Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry Christian Middle East Watch British Messianic Jewish Alliance Rosh Pina Project Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Friends of the Israel Defense Force JTA
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:56:21 +0000
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