Major Farran’s Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War Against Jewish Terrorism 1945-1948 David Cesarani London: William Heinemann, 2009, h/b, £20 On 6 May 1947 a British undercover squad, under the command of Major Roy Farran, picked up sixteen-year-old Alexander Rubowitz, a young Zionist activist. He was taken away for ‘interrogation’. After an hour […]
[…] is impossible to evaluate. This is an extremely complicated episode in an extremely confusing period. The best published account of the period I know is in Political Murder in Northern Ireland (Martin Dillon and Dennis Lehane, Penguin 1973), especially chapter 12. My best estimate is that the UCA was indeed a leftish organisation at […]
[…] Office press release, 7 December 2005) () Murrell update Andrew George had another day in court on 9 June when his appeal against his conviction of the murder of Hilda Murrell was rejected by the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division.() However a number of interesting points did find their way into Lord Justice Moses’ […]
[…] Jews again report a rise in antisemitism. I read these books after hearing Sir Gerald Kaufman in the Commons denounce Israeli attacks on Gaza. He described the murder of his Polish grandmother by a German soldier and then said: ‘My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in […]
[…] assassination researchers have followed this advice. For many it is practically axiomatic that complicity in the cover-up following JFK’s shooting implies complicity in, or knowledge of, the murder conspiracy. From the cover-up the trail can be followed back to the crime. But practically the entire U.S. establishment took part in the cover-up: national and […]
[…] thesis that the Mafia killed Kennedy rests on a number of circumstantial points. The Mafia hated JFK and RFK. True, a motive but not evidence of the murder. Various Mafia leaders talked about a hit on JFK. True, but unreliable. The majority of evidence relates to construction of alleged conversations a number of years […]
The Trial of Saddam Hussein Abdul Haq Al-Ani, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA., 2008 Abdul-Haq Al-Ani’s troubling manifesto on behalf of the murdered Iraqi leader exposes bloody doings of empire from a lucid political-juridical perspective. ‘Imperialism is a universal historical phenomenon, but it remains, nevertheless, evil’, he writes (p. 23). ‘I use the term European [imperialism] … Read more
[…] It’s Not Over… ‘Til it’s Over Rumors to the contrary, the twin conspiracies that murdered President John F. Kennedy and that covered up the facts of that murder are still the subjects of intensive research by a group of dedicated investigators writing for: The Third Decade A Journal of Research on the John F. […]
[…] freelance journalist in Northern Ireland with a long career behind him: editor and radio presenter for the BBC in Northern Ireland, co-author of the Penguin Special, Political Murder In Northern Ireland (1973), and author of a biography of Second World War SAS hero Lt. Col. Robert Blair Mayne, and an investigation of Loyalist sectarian […]
[…] said that police enquiries have been frustrated by the silence of a former military officer, Colin Wallace, currently serving a ten-year sentence in Lewes, Sussex, for the murder of his mistress’s husband in 1980. Wallace told both the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Sussex police that he would be in breach of the Official […]
