Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] would succeed John Smith as Labour leader. Three months before John Smith’s death in 1994, the then shadow home secretary Tony Blair went on a trip to Israel at the Israeli government’s expense. Blair was sympathetic to Israel, had shared chambers with the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Eldred Tabachnik,6 […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] lead them across the straits to restored power on the mainland. In the 1950s the so-called China Lobby enjoyed a status not unlike that enjoyed by the Israel lobby today. It is probably no accident that both KMT-ruled Formosa and Israel are substantial hubs for the whole range of offshore illicit traffic, whether drugs, […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] So I did. I make it 2,702,000, and that’s a minimum figure. And oil was at the heart of all of it – including the foundation of Israel – and the USA was responsible for much of the carnage. My hard copy of this got lost en route and the publisher emailed a digital […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] the US, the UK or France, the most likely providers of this hardware. The considered view is that South African acquired its nuclear weapons by collaborating with Israel, culminating in a nuclear test near Prince Edward Island, in the southern Indian Ocean, in September 1979.14 President Carter noted in his diary in February 1980: […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: Peer group pressure Colin Challen Whilst engaging in the topical parlour game ‘Who in the Labour Party is trying to shaft Jeremy Corbyn?’, my mind naturally turned to the master of dark arts, Lord (Peter) Mandelson. I took a look at his entry in the House of Lords Register of Members’ Interests, where I learnt […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] the affair I saw was by Daniel Margrain, who concluded: ‘Politically, the purpose of the misuse of antisemitism by Zionists is to quash all legitimate criticisms of Israel, its oppression of the Palestinian people and, by extension, Muslim/Arab nationalist aspirations more generally. The media attacks on Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and others are political […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] and may have also been a CIA informant. 4 Life after Tony An article in the Jewish Chronicle of 13 January reported that the Labour Friends of Israel is going to rebrand itself ‘as a membership organisation to argue actively for the two-state solution and develop the “progressive case” for Israel.’ Its new director, […]