[…] among its members,9 is obviously essentially a smear from the right (routine party politics). But it is also an illustration of the central tactic in the pro- Israel media playbook: accuse anyone who criticises Israel of being an anti-semite.1 0 While the Labour Party’s membership has ballooned since Corbyn became leader,1 1 the Conservative […]
Contents Lobster 58 Spookaroonie! Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Page 132 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review them. […]
[PDF file]: Running Rings Colin Challen Before the post of North Yorkshire’s Police, Crime and Fire Commissioner was abolished in May 2024 – to make way for a new executive mayor – the incumbent offered residents in certain postcode areas, assumed to be at more risk of crime, free Ring doorbell video cameras. These currently sell for […]
[PDF file]: […] several points: the Gulf of Aden (Yemen and Somalia), the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt), the Suez Canal (Egypt), and across the Mediterranean ( Israel, Palestine (Gaza), Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco). In addition, a network of pipelines links North Africa with Europe. Many US companies operate in […]
[PDF file]: […] among its members,13 is obviously essentially a smear from the right (routine party politics). But it is also an illustration of the central tactic in the pro- Israel media playbook: accuse anyone who criticises Israel of being an anti-semite.14 While the Labour Party’s membership has ballooned since Corbyn became leader,15 the Conservative Party is […]
[…] here. I learnt more about this relationship and made some good friends. But the premise was unnerving as I listened to generals talking about the expansion of Israel as if we would all agree that that was necessary. Or Republicans discussing how to keep Japan in its place. So my reservations go back a […]
[PDF file]: […] and Hollick. In 2021 Labour Together was fined £14,000 for not properly declaring ‘around £700,000 in donations’ (p. 249) – a substantial part which came from the Israel lobby in Britain.8 Although Baldwin is quite open about the general part played by Labour Together, he omits the questionable funding issue. Mr. McSweeney is now […]
[PDF file]: […] Eye cited by me in these columns. This is a collection of essays on: * the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians and the slowmotion ethnic cleansing of Israel; * the British state’s handling of the domestic Jihadist threat; * the corruption of the ANC government in South Africa; * the creation of the Iraqi […]
[…] and Hollick. In 2021 Labour Together was fined £14,000 for not properly declaring ‘around £700,000 in donations’ (p. 249) – a substantial part which came from the Israel lobby in Britain.8 Although Baldwin is quite open about the general part played by Labour Together, he omits the questionable funding issue. Mr. McSweeney is now […]
[PDF file]: […] Al A’amah. Adham had bank-rolled the former spy Anwar Sadat, the third president of Egypt who expelled thousands of Russian military advisers before his surprise attack on Israel to re-capture the Sinai Peninsula in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. As the tide turned against the Soviet Union, Sadat and his vice-president Hosni Mubarak […]
