Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] their wealth to promote themselves into the top echelons of Israel’s political parties.’ Think then what that might mean for international politics, given the close ties of Israel to the United States and the extent to which the latter’s election process depends on huge cash injections. Kochan also tells us that laundered money […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] the Breznev regime in the then Soviet Union. He arrived penniless. He is now a multibillionaire and has claimed that he is the fifth richest person in Israel. After a succession of low-paid jobs he was a gardener for a while he established a business as a technical translator. This gave him […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] from Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Baron de Rothschild – was the first demarche in the process that eventually led to the creation of the state of Israel. The timing of the declaration, five days before the Bolshevik take-over in St. Petersburg, was related, it has been argued, to a British attempt to deploy […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] Life about the influence of the Israeli lobby in the UK, is on-line.(5) Most usefully, it includes details of the Conservative as well as Labour Friends of Israel. The authors comment: ‘In the meantime your Committee is aware how the lobby group, Friends of Israel, has embedded itself in the British political establishment and […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: Right-Wing Zionism and Donald Trump Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel David Rubin Shiloh Israel Press, 2021 https://www.shilohisraelchildren.org/about-us/shiloh-israel-press/ John Newsinger In 2010, David Rubin published his The Islamic Tsunami: Israel and America in the Age of Obama. The book came with powerful recommendations from, among others, David Horowitz and Pat Robertson. According […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] the striking features of the apartheid years was the courageous determination of many South African Jews to bring down a regime significantly sustained through close alliance with Israel. In part this was a relationship of mutual economic and military interests. But as the author of this excellent book points out there was more to […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] of Israel’s assaults on Gaza Norman G. Finkelstein London and New York: O/R books, 2014, £11/$17, p/b There is little I find more depressing than reading about Israel. Not just the slow-motion ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians (by a state founded for the victims of ethnic cleansing, FFS) but also the denial and hypocrisy […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] causality and sometimes not. Consider the following sequence of events: in January 1994 Tony Blair, then Shadow Home Secretary and career-long member of the Labour Friends of Israel, took a four day freebie trip to Israel, with his wife, at the expense of the Israeli government. Two months later Tony Blair was introduced to […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] life of David Sainsbury, arguably the single most significant individual political donor in post-war Britain? LFI news Thoughts of political donations quickly bring the Labour Friends of Israel to mind and with it the deafening media silence that has descended on this controversial area since the succession of Jon Mendelsohn to the job done […]
