Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: Reporter: A Memoir Seymour M. Hersh London: Allen Lane, 2018, £20, h/b John Newsinger This is a tremendous book. Hersh is the embodiment of the journalist as public benefactor and we have never had a greater need for his skills. Towards the end of Reporter he laments that, because of developments in the Middle East, […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] 6 or 7 million pounds from the British Jewish community for then Leader of the Labour Party Tony Blair.76 And thus the operation against Labour by the Israel lobby is complete: it now has an Israel-supporting leader, dissenting Jews are being expelled, and it will soon be dependent on Jewish money. Or is that […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] other words, Morgan connected with just about everyone in this story. Morgan first met Roselli in the 1950s through Greenspun, who was convicted of running guns to Israel before launching his career in newspaper publishing.6 2 Starting in late 1966, Morgan worked with Maheu, Greenspun, Roselli and Hoffa to persuade the owners of a […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] Ireland: the Kitson Experiment (London: Zed Press, 1983) and subsequently in Lobsters 1, 10, 18 and 19. Important reports Two important reports have appeared recently. The Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre: Giving peace a chance? by Tom Mills, David Miller, Tom Griffin and Hilary Aked is a study of BICOM, its creation and […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] Corbyn and anti-semitism,44 he discusses some of the internal politicking on the issue of those around Corbyn. Inter alia he writes: In short, giving in to the Israel lobby was seen as a price worth paying, given that those who bore the brunt of the witchhunt were Palestinian and Muslim members. They were apparently […]