Mandelson given Washington role so he could read secret intel for Israel? Ex-ambassador Peter Ford
Peter Mandelson: the untold Israel connection https://politicsthisweek.gn.apc.org/2026/04/the-bristol-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-19/ After new, public revelations that Labour Party grandee Peter Mandelson failed security vetting but was appointed ambassador to the United States anyway, figures across the political spectrum are calling for the resignation of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. https://electronicintifada.net/content/peter-mandelson-untold-israel-connection/51369 But as the debate surrounding who knew what and when about Jeffrey Epstein’s “best pal” continues, many in the mainstream media have failed to interrogate Mandelson’s links to the pro-Israel lobby. The initial tranche of the Epstein files have already caused a political earthquake within the British establishment. For many years, the media and political class have willfully ignored the relationship between the convicted pedophile and Mandelson. But photographs of the man who revelled in the nickname, the “Prince of Darkness,” standing in his underpants may have proven to be the straw that broke the back of Starmer’s Labour government. Mandelson’s long-time protégé and Israel lobby favorite Morgan McSweeney has already resigned in disgrace after insisting on his mentor’s appointment as US ambassador last year, even in the face of British security service warnings. And the Mandelson scandal only seems to escalate. In February, he was spectacularly – yet briefly – arrested by police on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The same month, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince and another Epstein accomplice, was also arrested and is being investigated for the same reason, after emails in the latest Epstein releases suggested that both men handed over sensitive government information to the convicted paedophile and likely Mossad intelligence asset. In April, continued questions about how Mandelson came to be appointed ambassador despite failing security vetting threatened Starmer’s tenure as prime minister. Loyalty to Israel The Mandelson-Epstein relationship goes back decades. Ian Maxwell, the brother of Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, revealed in a September 2025 interview that Mandelson worked in their father’s Mirror Group headquarters in the 1980s as a consultant. Their father was Robert Maxwell, himself a former Labour MP and – according to investigative journalists Martin Dillon and Gordon Thomas – a key Mossad asset. After his body was found floating in the sea, Maxwell received an Israeli state funeral attended by the Israeli president, prime minister, and at least six serving and retired intelligence chiefs. Not bad for a British newspaper owner. In the early 1990s, working in Labour headquarters, Mandelson enjoyed a salary paid by Brian Basham – Ghislaine Maxwell’s public relations adviser. According to Ian Maxwell: “Epstein was always interested in having interactions with people with influence and Peter Mandelson was certainly influential.” By the time Tony Blair won the 1997 general election, Mandelson was in the cabinet. The relationship endured. Newly released files reveal an email sent by Ghislaine Maxwell to Peter Mandelson on 14 September 2002. Maxwell writes: “Clinton … will do what you want at the conference.” Two weeks later, former US president Bill Clinton addressed the Labour Party conference in Blackpool. Leaked documents show that Jeffrey Epstein funded Friends of the IDF and the settlement-financing Jewish National Fund, toured Israeli military bases, and was visited in his New York apartment by former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak over 30 times. However, as with media coverage surrounding Epstein that so often refuses to acknowledge his most obvious foreign link, the British press are determined to convince us that “bad luck” Mandelson’s biggest mishap was offering to help his “best pal” Epstein obtain a Russian visa. My research suggests that the media are hiding a bigger story: Peter Mandelson has a history of service and loyalty to the Israeli state. Epstein’s UK source In June 2024, less than a year before his inexplicable appointment as US ambassador, Mandelson addressed an event at the Israeli embassy in London to celebrate “Israel Independence Day,” also known as the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” which saw the wholesale displacement, murder, rape and ethnic cleansing of Palestine’s indigenous population. Mandelson, who once admitted endeavoring to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the party “every single day,” said at the embassy that he now believed that the “overwhelming majority” of the Labour Party had an “unwavering” belief “not only to Israel’s right to exist, but its right to defend itself against those who want to extinguish the state today.” Mandelson also referred to former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as his “hero,” a man famous for ordering Israeli soldiers to break Palestinians’ bones....
Peter Mandelson: the untold Israel connection https://politicsthisweek.gn.apc.org/2026/04/the-bristol-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-19/ After new, public revelations that Labour Party grandee Peter Mandelson failed security vetting but was appointed ambassador to the United States anyway, figures across the political spectrum are calling for the resignation of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. https://electronicintifada.net/content/peter-mandelson-untold-israel-connection/51369 But as the debate surrounding who knew what and when about Jeffrey Epstein’s “best pal” continues, many in the mainstream media have failed to interrogate Mandelson’s links to the pro-Israel lobby. The initial tranche of the Epstein files have already caused a political earthquake within the British establishment. For many years, the media and political class have willfully ignored the relationship between the convicted pedophile and Mandelson. But photographs of the man who revelled in the nickname, the “Prince of Darkness,” standing in his underpants may have proven to be the straw that broke the back of Starmer’s Labour government. Mandelson’s long-time protégé and Israel lobby favorite Morgan McSweeney has already resigned in disgrace after insisting on his mentor’s appointment as US ambassador last year, even in the face of British security service warnings. And the Mandelson scandal only seems to escalate. In February, he was spectacularly – yet briefly – arrested by police on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The same month, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince and another Epstein accomplice, was also arrested and is being investigated for the same reason, after emails in the latest Epstein releases suggested that both men handed over sensitive government information to the convicted paedophile and likely Mossad intelligence asset. In April, continued questions about how Mandelson came to be appointed ambassador despite failing security vetting threatened Starmer’s tenure as prime minister. Loyalty to Israel The Mandelson-Epstein relationship goes back decades. Ian Maxwell, the brother of Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, revealed in a September 2025 interview that Mandelson worked in their father’s Mirror Group headquarters in the 1980s as a consultant. Their father was Robert Maxwell, himself a former Labour MP and – according to investigative journalists Martin Dillon and Gordon Thomas – a key Mossad asset. After his body was found floating in the sea, Maxwell received an Israeli state funeral attended by the Israeli president, prime minister, and at least six serving and retired intelligence chiefs. Not bad for a British newspaper owner. In the early 1990s, working in Labour headquarters, Mandelson enjoyed a salary paid by Brian Basham – Ghislaine Maxwell’s public relations adviser. According to Ian Maxwell: “Epstein was always interested in having interactions with people with influence and Peter Mandelson was certainly influential.” By the time Tony Blair won the 1997 general election, Mandelson was in the cabinet. The relationship endured. Newly released files reveal an email sent by Ghislaine Maxwell to Peter Mandelson on 14 September 2002. Maxwell writes: “Clinton … will do what you want at the conference.” Two weeks later, former US president Bill Clinton addressed the Labour Party conference in Blackpool. Leaked documents show that Jeffrey Epstein funded Friends of the IDF and the settlement-financing Jewish National Fund, toured Israeli military bases, and was visited in his New York apartment by former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak over 30 times. However, as with media coverage surrounding Epstein that so often refuses to acknowledge his most obvious foreign link, the British press are determined to convince us that “bad luck” Mandelson’s biggest mishap was offering to help his “best pal” Epstein obtain a Russian visa. My research suggests that the media are hiding a bigger story: Peter Mandelson has a history of service and loyalty to the Israeli state. Epstein’s UK source In June 2024, less than a year before his inexplicable appointment as US ambassador, Mandelson addressed an event at the Israeli embassy in London to celebrate “Israel Independence Day,” also known as the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” which saw the wholesale displacement, murder, rape and ethnic cleansing of Palestine’s indigenous population. Mandelson, who once admitted endeavoring to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the party “every single day,” said at the embassy that he now believed that the “overwhelming majority” of the Labour Party had an “unwavering” belief “not only to Israel’s right to exist, but its right to defend itself against those who want to extinguish the state today.” Mandelson also referred to former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as his “hero,” a man famous for ordering Israeli soldiers to break Palestinians’ bones....