The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] confirmed. A few years later Oborne dipped his toes into the ocean explored in The Fate of Abraham with his Dispatches programme on the work of the Israel lobby in Westminster.2 With it he opened the eyes of those who cared to look to the powerful financial influences on our mother of Parliaments. Oborne […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] wife insisting he attend a medical appointment.33 While Bremer was quickly framing the ‘war on terror’ narrative around Osama bin Laden in a New York studio, former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak was doing the same from a BBC World one in London.34 His ‘the world 27 28 or 29 30 31 or 32 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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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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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] a Rayner) ascendency. Maguire and Pogrund follow the progress of ‘Project Ex’ – not even Starmer was aware of it until late on – comprising arch pro- Israel agitator Luke Akehurst; the veteran party insider (of Midlands vintage) Labour peer Roy Kennedy (whose wife also made it to the Lords); and Matt Pound, a […]

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, […]

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