REVEALED: AIPAC's plans to drag UK into 'US sphere' over Israel

[TomSea]

REVEALED: AIPAC's plans to drag UK into 'US sphere' over Israel

Secret recordings suggest lobbying organisation has established 'AIPAC London' and is funding groups in UK to cultivate US-style campaigning

The Israeli embassy in London is working with the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee to set up pro-Israel groups and cultivate an American-style lobbying culture in the UK, secret recordings of an AIPAC event in the British capital appear to suggest.

In covertly filmed footage, a senior political officer at the embassy described how he had set up an organisation called the City Friends of Israel with AIPAC's support, and later brought AIPAC officials over from the US to address the group.

Shai Masot, the now-former embassy official at the centre of revelations about Israeli influence inside British politics, also told an Al Jazeera undercover reporter how he had arranged a meeting between Conservative and Labour party delegates and AIPAC's head of strategy in Washington in order that he could give them “some ideas for Britain”.

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However it is achieved, I think this is a good idea. It sounds a bit sinister when they say they covertly filmed some of this.

[EC]

Should be amusing, at least. American style lobbying is illegal over here (it counts as "Obstructing a Servant of the Crown), so, good luck with that for starters.

Also, we do have a rather, shall we say "complex" response to what goes on in the former British Palestine. Part guilt, part benign paternal neglect.