🏦🧭 Tracking Political Donations
Sleekit Scotsman ☮️🏴 guide to tracking political donations
In the spirit of Sleekit Scotsman ☮️🏴 being an open source reference for advocates of social justice and human rights, here are a number of key sites for tracking donations to politicians, specifically from the pro-Israeli Lobby.
You can then verify the correlation between the donor and the actions of the politician, with expected results.
This is divided by AUKUS countries with links to articles for each country with a deeper-dive.
🇦🇺 Australia
Key Sleekit Scotsman ☮️🏴 article on Australian politicians:
🇦🇺📢🇮🇱 Australian Pro-Israel Lobby: Modus Operandi (first published Jan 10 2024)
Comprehensive review of the modus operandi of the Australian pro-Israel lobby in a fully referenced research article. Regularly updated with version history. The article covers:
organisational structures & policy platform
influence in Parliament
influence in business, law and public figures
influence in the media and the pro-Israeli PR machine
Political donations in Australia are much harder to track - and the politicians like it that way. Nevertheless a few links below:
🇮🇱✈️ Flights to Israel
Crikey - Register of Australian Politicians and Journalists who have taken paid trips to Israel: LIVE - updated as facts come out (they are rarely declared due to loopholes). You can see a direct correlation in pro-Israeli behaviour here.
To caveat - some may have taken personal trips but generally paid for. There are also Palestinian trips - but they are few and far between, and politicians pay for their own flights.
🏦🇦🇺 Politicians Register of Interests
Federal
Open Politics: Private Assets of Australian Federal Politicians
Australian Senate (Government register)
Australian House of Representatives (Government register)
State
NSW State Parliament: Sample register from 2021/22 - This register is a disgrace - it’s handwritten non-searchable PDF statements registered at the start of each parliamentary citizen. No accountability or visibility for one of the largest “Friends of Israel” lobbies in the largest economic state. Not at the top of the list to change it…
🇺🇸 US
Key Sleekit Scotsman ☮️🏴 article on US politicians:
Comprehensive review of the US pro-Israel lobby in a fully referenced research article. Regularly updated with version history (first published Jan 10 2024). The article covers:
Congress - ensuring political advocacy - PAC funding, AIPAC, Billionaire megadonors, ADL concerns fast-tracked to legislation, one unbiased Congressman
Pro-Israel protectionism - example motions and bills passed 2023/24 with blatant pro-Israel protectionism including the ultimate Bill - “Countering Antisemitism Act” and ICC counteraction bills
Military aid packages to Israel 2023/24
United Nations - ensuring a free rein through the US veto
Political donations in Australia are much
These are salient links to websites detailing US Government Political Donations
🇺🇸 🇮🇱💰 US Political Donations from the Pro-Israeli Lobby
🇮🇱💰 Pro-Israeli Lobby: LIVE tracker of political donations per pro-Israeli Lobby
👤💰 Individual Congress members: LIVE tracker of Congress Members who have taken donations from the Pro-Israeli Lobby
🇺🇸 💰FEC Official Donations Tracker:
US Government official register LIVE tracker but difficult to navigate
🇬🇧 UK
Key Sleekit Scotsman ☮️🏴 article on 🇬🇧 UK politicians:
🇬🇧 UK Articles
🇬🇧📢🇮🇱 UK Parliamentary Pro-Israel Lobby - on the UK 2024 election, reflecting on the operating model and history (first published Jun 3 2024).
Conservative Party: legal advice on Gaza, biased Ministers and Speaker, funding of Conservative Friends of Israel, speaking out - Sir Alan Duncan
Labour Party: the campaign against Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party Friends of Israel: candidate compulsory pre-screening, funding, Israel trips. Fixing pro-Israel candidates in the 2024 election.
Two sources:
TheyWorkForYou datasets - including expenses
UK Parliament Register of Member’s Financial Interests: Government source - here is Keir Starmer’s infamous 2020 entry from the pro-Israeli lobby as example from what’s on these pages
The primary corruption concerned about in the UK is the manipulation of the UK Parliament in changing laws to restrict protest - by Ministers directly responsible who are clearly biased towards Israel.
