Ten Years Hard Labour by Chris Williamson

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[PDF file]: […] what was behind the socalled ‘crisis’. He called it out for the political scam it largely was and so was subjected to ever more vilification by the Israel lobby and its political and media allies. This included death threats, the vandalisation of his constituency office and routine daily abuse by Labour MPs in Westminster. […]

The MOSSAD Spy by Olivia Frank

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[PDF file]: […] concealing the fact that she felt she was a woman might have given her the deception skills to be an intelligence officer. At 18 she joined the Israel Defence Force (IDF) as a woman, in preparation for entering Mossad. There are vivid accounts of military engagements and a couple of her operations penetrating anti-Israel […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq by John W. Dower

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[PDF file]: […] bad, enlightened US arrangements good. Fourthly: nowhere in the very extensive discussions in this book about Iraq is any mention made of the significant role played by Israel in persistently lobbying the US (and others) that a pre-emptive war against Saddam Hussein was justified, and in providing ‘intelligence’ of a dubious value. Given the […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

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[PDF file]: […] Colonel Gaddafi/EU foreign policy and interviewed on Newsnight she wore a noticeable gold broach. Glinting in the camera lights, it looked like the 6 pointed star of Israel doing neither Israel nor the EU any favours.2 4 Note 21 continued: ‘warned’ and traumatised. It ended, in PR terms, in America six months later when […]

Labour, the anti-semitism crisis & the destroying of an MP by Lee Garratt

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[PDF file]: […] to be a strange strategy for general election success. Only later did I learn that Ryan’s maintenance of her role as chair of the Labour Friends of Israel was seen by her supporters as a higher priority than a Labour majority, one reportedly supported by party HQ staff machinations.1 So I looked for a […]

Running Rings

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[PDF file]: Running Rings Colin Challen Before the post of North Yorkshire’s Police, Crime and Fire Commissioner was abolished in May 2024 – to make way for a new executive mayor – the incumbent offered residents in certain postcode areas, assumed to be at more risk of crime, free Ring doorbell video cameras. These currently sell for […]

Britain alone The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens

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[PDF file]: […] and voluntarily opted out of a major space exploration programme. Arrangements like these were so obviously at odds with what any other country would do (think here Israel, India, Pakistan, China and how they acquired nuclear deterrents) that one considers there must be something else at play – a psychological rather than a political, […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] among its members,9 is obviously essentially a smear from the right (routine party politics). But it is also an illustration of the central tactic in the pro- Israel media playbook: accuse anyone who criticises Israel of being an anti-semite.1 0 While the Labour Party’s membership has ballooned since Corbyn became leader,1 1 the Conservative […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] among its members,13 is obviously essentially a smear from the right (routine party politics). But it is also an illustration of the central tactic in the pro- Israel media playbook: accuse anyone who criticises Israel of being an anti-semite.14 While the Labour Party’s membership has ballooned since Corbyn became leader,15 the Conservative Party is […]

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