The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Atlantic flash’, the title of his essay.4 8 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 45 Known advance warnings of 9/11 are listed at 46 This is expressed very clearly by Richard A. […]

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, […]

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 […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: Peer group pressure Colin Challen Whilst engaging in the topical parlour game ‘Who in the Labour Party is trying to shaft Jeremy Corbyn?’, my mind naturally turned to the master of dark arts, Lord (Peter) Mandelson. I took a look at his entry in the House of Lords Register of Members’ Interests, where I learnt […]

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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] and may have also been a CIA informant. 4 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, […]

View from Bridge 86 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] focused on Jeremy Corbyn claims that his defeat was not the result of millions of former Labour voters walking away, but a conspiracy authored by the ” Israel lobby” – the kind of antisemitic cliché that finds an echo at the other end of the political spectrum.38 This is seriously misleading – and spectacularly […]

Ten Years Hard Labour by Chris Williamson

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] what was behind the socalled ‘crisis’. He called it out for the political scam it largely was and so was subjected to ever more vilification by the Israel lobby and its political and media allies. This included death threats, the vandalisation of his constituency office and routine daily abuse by Labour MPs in Westminster. […]

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