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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 […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

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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.25 See this column in Lobster 85 under […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Sir John Sawer’s speech and some aspects of SIS PR

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] the Ottomans – demand recognition equal to their huge populations and status. How does the Foreign Office grab a share of the consumer markets without offending both Israel and the royal princes of Arabia? Besides which, their re-emergence was never one it envisaged – Turkey with its years of understanding of Russia, the Balkans […]

Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] but became Labour’s communication director for the 2005 general election. In the 2019 one Campbell canvassed for former Liverpool Labour MP and director of Labour Friends of Israel, Luciana Berger, when she stood in London as a Liberal Democrat.4 He has worked for Rupert Murdoch as well as in commercial public relations. He is […]

lob86View from Bridge

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.6 This is seriously misleading – and spectacularly […]

lob86View from Bridge

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.6 This is seriously misleading – and spectacularly […]

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