21 Apr 2026, The National
https://archive.ph/Z7EZ5

Lede: NEW evidence reveals that a peer who sits on the board of the think tank
Labour Together participated in a "routine of almost wild abandon" while serving
in the Israeli military.

Jonathan Kestenbaum's IDF service was not referenced on his Wikipedia page at
all until my investigation was published last week, as reported by The National.

The National has now received excerpts from Kestenbaum's diary, buried in the
archives of the Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York Times, and seemingly never
published in the UK until now.

In one part of his diary, Kestenbaum describes "chasing a nine-year-old boy who
broke a 30-day curfew to try to retrieve bread from a gutter," and "rounding up
a group of elderly Palestinians who slipped into a field at night to pick a
bucket of tomatoes".

Cont'd ...