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[…] 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 […]

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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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Henry Jackson Society and the degeneration of British Neoconservatism: Liberal interventionism, Islamophobia and the ‘war of terror’ by Tom Griffin, et al

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] distinguished by his work as a news executive for Rupert Murdoch. In this latest Spinwatch report, the authors trace the line from the long-dead pro-Vietnam war, pro- Israel, pro-arms industry senator from Washington via a Cambridge group at Peterhouse through the ‘war on terror’ to Gove’s ‘Trojan Horse’ campaign against some Birmingham schools. Along […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Mind you, some of the testimony the Post quotes is gobsmacking in the incompetence and venality it reports. The lobby The climax of the campaign by the Israel lobby against Jeremy Corbyn and his faction within the Labour Party was the report in the week before the general election – splashed across all the […]

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