Since the Berlin Wall fell the information from the former USSR about the Cold War that I am aware of has mostly been confirmation of what we knew already: the Soviets were apparently not running Alger Hiss or Roger Hollis; but they were funding the World Peace Council and the rest of the well known […]
[…] received Israeli government money fronted by ‘businessmen’. Either way, as has been demonstrated in Bernard Donoughue’s Dairies of the 1974-76 Wilson government, reviewed in Lobster 49, Labour, Israel and British Jewish businessmen is not a new story. Now that David Cameron looks like a possible winner, he is starting to attract Jewish donations. See […]
[…] account of himself: ‘ Israeli journalist Barry Chamish is the most outspoken and document-laden of the dozens of Rabin murder “conspiracy theorists”. The Canadian-born Chamish moved to Israel in 1975, got an MA at Hebrew University and in ’82 fought in the Lebanese War. Following the critical success of his book, The Fall of […]
[…] by the Jewish Chronicle as saying: ‘I have been with him since he became leader and I will be at his side until the end.’ The strong Israel network in New Labour is likely to continue beyond the retirement of Blair and Levy. Gordon Brown has often spoken to his attachment to the Israel […]
[…] for a war on Iraq and now for similar intervention in Iran and Syria. Ledeen was a regular contributor on terrorism and the defence of Ariel Sharon’s Israel in The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator when Conrad Black was owner. In the April 3 2005 radio interview with Los Angeles public radio KPFK, Vincent […]
[…] daily Liberation, moreover, the CIA itself proposed to Israeli arms dealers and officials that the bank serve as a financial intermediary on weapons sales between Iran and Israel. The bank allegedly set up letters of credit between Tehran and the Israeli arms merchants, the paper reported, ‘without in any way excluding the “parallel operations” […]
[…] US, began circulating on the Net. Its most striking paragraph was this: ‘I can tell you from personal experience that, at least in the Congress, the support Israel has in that body is based completely on political fear – fear of defeat by anyone who does not do what Israel wants done. I can […]
[…] its hands. The following morning, Mandelson was interviewed on Radio 4’s Start the Week by BBC political editor Andrew Marr. Mandelson had much to say on Iraq, Israel and the United States, but was not questioned about Blackwood. The editor’s removal was only briefly mentioned in The Independent, on whose international board Mandelson sits. […]
Friends in high places Friends of Israel: The Backlash against Palestine Solidarity Hil Aked London and New York: Verso, £18.99 ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-765-9 John Booth My only direct experience of the Friends of Israel network was as a Labour party member. It came during the 2017 general election campaign when I tried to volunteer in […]
Friends in high places Friends of Israel: The Backlash against Palestine Solidarity Hil Aked London and New York: Verso, £18.99 ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-765-9 John Booth My only direct experience of the Friends of Israel network was as a Labour party member. It came during the 2017 general election campaign when I tried to volunteer in […]
