Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] 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’ […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
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
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] our understanding of the Holocaust is brought home in Gerhard Steinberg’s opening essay. Here he argues that the history of the early days of the Nazi mass murder of Russian Jews has been transformed by intelligence materials revealing the extent of Order Police involvement in the massacres that accompanied Operation Barbarossa. Whereas it had […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] be allowed to rest. While it is absolutely clear that the loyalist campaign was a great help to the British, Davies goes further. He argues that the murder gangs were actually being directed by British intelligence; in effect, the British were carrying out a campaign of assassination by proxy. Nelson, a member of the […]