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[…] 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 […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] would succeed John Smith as Labour leader. Three months before John Smith’s death in 1994, the then shadow home secretary Tony Blair went on a trip to Israel at the Israeli government’s expense. Blair was sympathetic to Israel, had shared chambers with the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Eldred Tabachnik,6 […]

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 Rule of the Tech Lords

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] in 2020. (pp. 2, 150, 161, 162, 167, 169) What seems to have been decisive in pushing Karp to the hard right was the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. Palantir had already let Mossad have its tech at a generous discount, but after the Hamas attack Karp made support for Israel […]

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, […]

Killing Machines: Trump, the Law of War, and the Future of Military Impunity by Thomas Gift

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] that the war would be short-lived, the Iranian regime brought to heel by an overwhelming bombardment, with few US casualties. Almost always overlooked is the fact that Israel has a covert ally in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi regime has been Israel’s accomplice for many years and without doubt its influence was brought to bear […]

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 […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] the US, the UK or France, the most likely providers of this hardware. The considered view is that South African acquired its nuclear weapons by collaborating with Israel, culminating in a nuclear test near Prince Edward Island, in the southern Indian Ocean, in September 1979.14 President Carter noted in his diary in February 1980: […]

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 […]

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