Ruth Smeeth

Ruth Smeeth
Born	29 June 1979 Edinburgh, Scotland
Alma mater	University of Birmingham
Spouse	Michael Smeeth
Member of	Community Security Trust, Index on Censorship, Labour Renaissance
Party	Labour
Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent North In office 7 May 2015 - Present Preceded by Nick Harvey, John Thurso  Director of Public Affairs and Campaigns In office 2005 - 2007 Employer BICOM

Ruth Smeeth (born 29 June 1979) is a British Labour Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent North at the 2015 General Election.

Unhappy with Jeremy Corbyn

On 30 June 2016, Ruth Smeeth stormed out of the press conference when Jeremy Corbyn responded to the report by the Chakrabarti Inquiry into Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.

A former BICOM spin doctor, Smeeth later called for the resignation of Jeremy Corbyn.

Funded by Israel lobby

It has since emerged that after becoming an MP, Ruth Smeeth continued to be funded by the Israel lobby.

The Register of Members' financial interests shows that Smeeth declared a donation of £5,000 ($6,200) from Poju Zabludowicz’s company Tamares Real Estates in June 2015. She declared a donation worth £2,500 ($3,100) from Trevor Chinn, former chair of the Kwit-Fit chain of motor garages, at the same time.

Zabludowicz is the billionaire property speculator who was once reported to own 40 percent of downtown Las Vegas. He used his wealth, inherited from his Israeli arms dealer father, to establish BICOM, the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre.

Chinn, who sits on BICOM’s executive committee, has long been a Labour donor, and has funded leadership rivals to pro-Palestinian Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Herzliya Conference/2007	21 January 2007	24 January 2007	Reichman University Tel Aviv Israel	"The conference examined the array of dangers, threats and difficulties Israel has faced since early 2006, identified a broad web of problems in all of the fundamental strata upon which national security is based, and proposed strategies for action."

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Anti-semitism is cover for a much deeper divide in Britain's Labour party	Article	20 February 2019	Jonathan Cook	Paradoxically, the Labour breakaway group may have inadvertently exposed the weakness of its hand. The eight MPs have indicated that they will not run in by-elections, and for good reason: it is highly unlikely they would stand a chance of winning in any of their current constituencies outside the Labour Party.
Document:Is this the Epicentre of Corbyn’s Antisemitism Story?	Article	8 April 2019	TruePublica	We are being immersed in a disgraceful environment of political propaganda, disinformation and downright lies cooked up by those with vested interests and promoted by the billionaire offshore owners of the press and fellow travellers such as Ruth Smeeth and contriving organisations such as the British-American Project
Document:Manufacturing consent on "antisemitism"	article	20 October 2016	Tony Greenstein	Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party is the target throughout this ill-conceived, politically tendentious and risible Home Affairs Select Committee report entitled "Antisemitism in the UK". The presumption of innocence has been abandoned by lawyer Chuka Umunna and his Tory friends.
Document:Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 13	blog post	20 September 2020	Craig Murray	“Strictly protect” is nothing to do with security classification, which is what protects national security information. As Nicky Hager said, its normal use is to prevent political embarrassment. As in Australasia, it is a term largely used to protect their secret political assets.

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