View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] anti-semitism smear against Jeremy Corbyn The recent detailed account of the rise of Keir Starmer9 massively underplays the anti-semitism smear against Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour Friends of Israel get two passing references. The major media in this country is still unable or unwilling to present the episode honestly. And it’s not because there is […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] anti-semitism smear against Jeremy Corbyn The recent detailed account of the rise of Keir Starmer26 massively underplays the anti-semitism smear against Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour Friends of Israel get two passing references. The major media in this country is still unable or or There are currently no British politicians listed as members of the […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] book and will have read a summary prepared by someone. What do you suppose she found so shattering in a summary of its contents? *new* 9/11 and Israel I don’t know much about the mountain of 9/11 research. The subject just didn’t grab me. Even though it looked like the Twin Towers had been […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] at . 25 or 26 Forget the Palestinians On 13 August the BBC News carried the story of the agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel to normalise relations.27 There was much related talk about how good this would be for trade in the Middle East. So presumably about oil, then. Just […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] profile of the man, based on many conversations: ‘What Keir Starmer can’t say’.18 In that, Starmer offers no economic ideas or views (and declined to comment on Israel and Gaza). Commenting on the article, Richard Murphy wrote: The overarching theme of the whole article was, in fact, that Keir Starmer really does not know […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] profile of the man, based on many conversations: ‘What Keir Starmer can’t say’.17 In that, Starmer offers no economic ideas or views (and declined to comment on Israel and Gaza). Commenting on the article, Richard Murphy wrote: The overarching theme of the whole article was, in fact, that Keir Starmer really does not know […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] onto the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ line as the pretext. From the horse’s mouth O ne Luke Akehurst has recently become the director of BICOM, the Britain Israel Communications & Research Centre, the leading PR outfit for Israel in the UK, and a profile of him 40 shows how a section of the Israeli […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] else but let me note two things about it. First, on page one he complains about the influence in the Tory Party of the Conservative Friends of Israel – a recurring theme in the volume.12 Second, he has nothing but contempt for many of his colleagues in the Conservative Party. In this aspect, Duncan’s […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Williams, ‘”They will be back”: why attacks like the Colonial Pipeline hack keep happening’ at or . 9 10 or 11 4 of the Conservative Friends of Israel – a recurring theme in the volume.12 Second, he has nothing but contempt for many of his colleagues in the Conservative Party. In this aspect, Duncan’s […]

The rise of New Labour

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] the rise of NuLab, was not the American state, which was doing what it had always done since about 1950, but the role of the state of Israel. Now let’s be careful here. This is not about Zionism or even Judaism: this is about the actions of a state, the Israeli state. Tony Blair […]

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