A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[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, […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] at 4 Page 41 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 * 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, […]

Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] a Rayner) ascendency. Maguire and Pogrund follow the progress of ‘Project Ex’ – not even Starmer was aware of it until late on – comprising arch pro- Israel agitator Luke Akehurst; the veteran party insider (of Midlands vintage) Labour peer Roy Kennedy (whose wife also made it to the Lords); and Matt Pound, a […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

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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 […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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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, […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] documents, raw intelligence data and nontraditional sources such as tribal leaders’. And what does this intelligence paragon tell Jared Kushner? That Hezbollah was ‘an existential threat’ to Israel, and, on top of that, maintained a dangerous terrorist network ‘worldwide’. They gave Trump ‘a Reader’s Digest version of the Hezbollah briefing’ (pp. 108-110). This is […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[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: […]

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