Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] credulous party members. But ‘Labour anti-semitism’, the other issue which had beset Corbyn, still had great political asset value for Starmer, a Zionist with family connections in Israel who had discreetly drawn on the resources of others sharing that political ideology. Membership purges followed under Starmer’s loyal new staff at party HQ, including that […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] altercation with a Jewish taxi driver who refused to accept her as a fare. His home was later petrol bombed in retaliation, ‘precipitating his subsequent emigration to Israel’. The NSM newspaper, The National Socialist, proudly proclaimed that ‘the Second Expulsion of the Jews has already begun’. (p. 293) Once again, acts of terrorism were […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 Robin Ramsay I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review them. However, there are some things I can say […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] opium during the Vietnam war, has returned to subject of opium and the US state in his ‘Calling Afghanistan what it is: a drug war’.1 The pro- Israel lobby in Britain In November 2009 Channel 4’s Dispatches series broadcast ‘Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby’, a striking event in this country’s political (and television) history. The […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: The Black Door Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac London: William Collins, £30 T his new book by two respected academics has a lot to tell us about how Britain is run. We are told, for example, that at a CBI dinner in December 1971, the Labour Party leader, […]