Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[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. […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] bad, enlightened US arrangements good. Fourthly: nowhere in the very extensive discussions in this book about Iraq is any mention made of the significant role played by Israel in persistently lobbying the US (and others) that a pre-emptive war against Saddam Hussein was justified, and in providing ‘intelligence’ of a dubious value. Given the […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] concealing the fact that she felt she was a woman might have given her the deception skills to be an intelligence officer. At 18 she joined the Israel Defence Force (IDF) as a woman, in preparation for entering Mossad. There are vivid accounts of military engagements and a couple of her operations penetrating anti-Israel […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] like The Institute for Government, has a significant following among Blairite supporters and activists. The existence of Progress as a (comparatively) well resourced pro-free market, pro-US, pro- Israel body within the Labour Party had led some to describe it as a ‘party within a party’ a la Militant and to demand, somewhat theatrically, its […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] to be a strange strategy for general election success. Only later did I learn that Ryan’s maintenance of her role as chair of the Labour Friends of Israel was seen by her supporters as a higher priority than a Labour majority, one reportedly supported by party HQ staff machinations.1 So I looked for a […]