Friends of Israel

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] newcomer on the block compared to the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) founded in 1760. Historically anti-Zionist, the BoD changed direction during the rise of Hitler, seeing Israel’s foundation as a safe haven for persecuted European Jews. It today continues to support Israel and took a very critical line against Corbyn and […]

Spandau blood

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: Spandau blood Andrew Rosthorn My article in Lobster 77 (February 2019) asked whether a DNA test had really ‘solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery’, as was claimed by a group of thirteen American and Austrian researchers. 1 In response to my question, the lead author of their research paper, Dr Sherman McCall MD, PhD (Cantab), […]

Misc reviews

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[…] through this foggy, booby-trapped interior landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b Somewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas Powers is a commentator on recent American […]

Murder in Cairo

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[PDF file]: […] S. Mayer15 , was wealthy but the date of Leo’s birth meant that at 18 he would have to be sent away to school in Switzerland, when Hitler came to power; and at 20, being unlawfully gay and living in Hampstead, he would need to be secretive and deceptive, especially when attending an anti-fascist […]

Churchill’s War Against D-Day by Graeme Bowman

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[PDF file]: […] (known officially as the Dodecanese campaign)3 killed off his hope of avoiding D-Day. There was, of course, a positive side to him that requires acknowledgement. He ‘read’ Hitler correctly from very early on; his defiance between May and September 1940 saved the UK and western democracy; and his opposition to the Nazi regime was […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] through this foggy, booby-trapped interior landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b Somewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas Powers is a commentator on recent American […]

Trump and Trumpism: The Destructive Politics of American Fascism by Andrew Kolin

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[PDF file]: […] a phoney, who undercuts his own message through policies that clearly benefit the upper classes’. His personal ‘fascist inclinations’ have been long demonstrated by his ‘admiration of Hitler, his rabid expressions of racism on the infamous Central Park Five case, the promotion of birtherism, his consistent antiSemitic remarks and his sexism and misogyny’. All […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

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[PDF file]: […] 22 year old, who led the way into Nancy Pelosi’s office and stole her laptop. A video of her giving the Nazi salute and pledging allegiance to Hitler later emerged. There were also a number of Republican Party officials and office holders involved as well. Doug Mastriano, a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

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[…] 22 year old, who led the way into Nancy Pelosi’s office and stole her laptop. A video of her giving the Nazi salute and pledging allegiance to Hitler later emerged. There were also a number of Republican Party officials and office holders involved as well. Doug Mastriano, a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate […]

The Christian Right Revisited

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[PDF file]: […] example, preacher John Hagee’s belief that the Harry Potter books are ‘a roadmap to witchcraft’ and that Potter’s forehead is marked ‘with the lightning bolt of the Hitler SS’ – something which convinced him that the arrival of the Anti-Christ was imminent. (p. 256) Keddie’s revelation that a 2014 poll showed that only 28 […]

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