Daivd abrahams; Jon Mendelsohn; Lord Levy (also known as "Lord Cashpoint"). Notice anything funny about those names, and some of the others at the heart of the previous and present furores over political funding? Maybe-and ideally-you don't. But some people have spotted a theme. A front page in the Daily Telegraph featured a photograph of Mr Abrahams-who donated more than £660,000 ($1,4m) to the Labour Party using illegitimate intermediaries-shaking hands with the Israeli ambassador. The nudge-nudge headline was "Hunt for the 'real donor'". An intrepid columnist in the Independent dared, as she put it, to incur "the wrath of Moses" by questioning the involvement of the "shape-shifter" Mr Abrahams and the others with a pro-Israel lobbying group.
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