[…] ‘these groups’ non-transparent and unaccountable modus operandi and the intermittent scandals which occasionally illuminate their activities, as well the close informal working relationships cultivated by the Israeli embassy’. (p. 13)6 Aked styles the Zionist movement as a ‘social movement from above’ and contrasts its ‘astroturfing’ character with the Palestinian liberation struggle, BDS campaign and […]
[PDF file]: […] Rusty Firmin, was published more than ten years ago and – one suspects with good reason – is described as ‘The definitive inside story of the Iranian Embassy Siege’.1 If you’ll pardon the pun, the subject has truly been done to death. How, then, can The Siege add anything? Well it can’t, really, can […]
[…] Rusty Firmin, was published more than ten years ago and – one suspects with good reason – is described as ‘The definitive inside story of the Iranian Embassy Siege’.1 If you’ll pardon the pun, the subject has truly been done to death. How, then, can The Siege add anything? Well it can’t, really, can […]
[…] Rusty Firmin, was published more than ten years ago and – one suspects with good reason – is described as ‘The definitive inside story of the Iranian Embassy Siege’.1 If you’ll pardon the pun, the subject has truly been done to death. How, then, can The Siege add anything? Well it can’t, really, can […]
[PDF file]: […] by Prime Minister May, his assumption was that it was for his Middle East expertise. As far as the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) and the Israeli Embassy were concerned, however, his support for a Palestinian state made him completely unacceptable and it soon became clear that he was to have no involvement with […]
[PDF file]: […] Brown as an economically illiterate careerist who became leader of the Labour Party by sounding like a leftie to its members while cuddling up to the American embassy and international bankers.5 1 As for his economic record as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Henderson clearly lays out some of the dismal details.5 2 49 […]
[PDF file]: […] terrorist organisation called the Mujehadin-e Khalq (MEK). Previously financed by Saddam Hussein (and previously described as a terrorist group in Washington) these architects of the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London are now financed and backed by the US and Gulf Arab States.15 It is also likely that the MEK are getting logistical support […]
[…] invaluable commentator on the machinations of the state. On 28 May he wrote a very important piece, ‘The UK Rebukes the UN and Bows to the Israeli Embassy over “Terrorism” Arrests of Journalists’.60 It included this: There is a stunning contrast between the access given by the UK to the Israeli Embassy to influence […]
[…] invaluable commentator on the machinations of the state. On 28 May he wrote a very important piece, ‘The UK Rebukes the UN and Bows to the Israeli Embassy over “Terrorism” Arrests of Journalists’.41 It included this: There is a stunning contrast between the access given by the UK to the Israeli Embassy to influence […]
[PDF file]: […] his company jets. The inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, took place in Kyiv four days later.136 US Ambassador William Taylor, chargé d’affaires at the Kyiv Embassy, spoke repeatedly to President Zelensky about Kolomoisky’s influence, which obviously reflected unease within the US Department of State. Taylor later recalled: The influence of one particular […]
