The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] the political editor of unherd.com.9 Recently he wrote a profile of Morgan McSweeney, the Labour Party’s campaign director.10 In that there is not a word about the Israel lobby money which has been supporting McSweeney’s pressure group within Labour, Labour Together.11 Not so much unherd as unsayable, apparently. Spycops The spycops inquiry formally the […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] and fall.13 See or . 10 11 or 12 The author’s other articles in this field are listed at . 13 Available from . 5 *new* The Israel lobby According to Lobster’s search engine, AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, was first mentioned more than 20 years ago in issue 49 by Tom […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] and fall.13 See or . 10 11 or 12 The author’s other articles in this field are listed at . 13 Available from . 5 *new* The Israel lobby According to Lobster’s search engine, AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, was first mentioned more than 20 years ago in issue 49 by Tom […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] South Atlantic flash’, the title of his essay.49 This event was loaded with complications because (a) it was the official policy of the US to deny that Israel had nuclear weapons and (b) the Israelis and South African were engaged in various military collaborations – the two pariah states were working together.50 Weiss was […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] affair I saw was by Daniel Margrain,4 4 who concluded: ‘Politically, the purpose of the misuse of antisemitism by Zionists is to quash all legitimate criticisms of Israel, its oppression of the Palestinian people and, by extension, Muslim/Arab nationalist aspirations more generally. The media attacks on Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and others are political […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] even a few years ago, that isn’t because the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee managed to keep voting the right way. 3 or 3 *new* The unsayable The Israel lobby may be boasting about their operation to destroy Jeremy Corbyn4 but our major media is still unwilling to use the term ‘Israel lobby’; probably for […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] even a few years ago, that isn’t because the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee managed to keep voting the right way. 3 or 3 *new* The unsayable The Israel lobby may be boasting about their operation to destroy Jeremy Corbyn4 but our major media is still unwilling to use the term ‘Israel lobby’; probably for […]

View from Lob 73

Lobster Issue

[…] the affair I saw was by Daniel Margrain, who concluded: ‘Politically, the purpose of the misuse of antisemitism by Zionists is to quash all legitimate criticisms of Israel, its oppression of the Palestinian people and, by extension, Muslim/Arab nationalist aspirations more generally. The media attacks on Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and others are political […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] at 4 Page 41 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 * Life after Tony An article in the Jewish Chronicle of 13 January reported that the Labour Friends of Israel is going to rebrand itself ‘as a membership organisation to argue actively for the two-state solution and develop the “progressive case” for Israel.’ Its new director, […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] lead them across the straits to restored power on the mainland. In the 1950s the so-called China Lobby enjoyed a status not unlike that enjoyed by the Israel lobby today. It is probably no accident that both KMT-ruled Formosa and Israel are substantial hubs for the whole range of offshore illicit traffic, whether drugs, […]

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