[…] to withdraw that support. If Nick Cohen is a sell-out then so am I. When Peter Hitchens accuses the SWP of anti-Semitism, questions the absurd idea that Israel is responsible for all of the problems of the Middle East and slams the Left for defining Hizbullah as freedom fighters, he is right. At its […]
[…] Morris London: I. B Tauris, 2002, £24.50, h/b In report after report on the major media we hear about or see pictures of ‘refugee camps’ in Israel – and no-one ever explains from where the refugees came. Perhaps editors think we know already. Benny Morris is an Israeli historian who became well known […]
[…] continental control of our utilities. It is difficult to imagine a British foreign policy that is not heavily influenced by the interests of the United States or Israel, with a dangerously free hand given to the Russian oligarchs in London. Revitalising the country that ran the world’s largest empire was never going to be […]
Our masters: on his WebsiteConservative MEP Ashley Mote has a list of all 3000 plus of the EU’s hither-to unidentified committees, comprised of officials and ‘experts’. Hamas and Israel:It has long been known, ‘understood’, that the Israeli state was involved in the formation of Hamas as a way of splintering the PLO an outstanding […]
[…] lot about ‘terrorism’, they don’t use the word in the way we do. For them ‘terrorism’ is the activities of all anti-imperialist movements in the Third World. Israel, with its unwanted Palestinian population, is an enthusiastic supporter of this line and had a major hand in launching it via the 1984 Jonathan Institute conference. […]
Contents Israel, the lobby and its critics If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew Mike Marqusee London and Brooklyn: Verso, £9.99 (UK) 137 Winter 2010 ‘This Time We Went Too Far’: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion Norman G. Finkelstein New York: O R Books, £12 War Crimes in […]
[PDF file]: […] ISBN 9781682191149 John Booth In the swirl of controversy over ‘Labour’s anti-Semitism problem’ that has followed Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader in 2015, the complex subject of Israel and Palestine has rarely featured in popular discussion. These three books offer those who wish to move beyond this largely faux confection more understanding of an […]
[…] ‘even-handed’ approach taken by Henry Kissinger and Nixon during the 1973 Israeli war with the Arabs, the Israeli lobby set about remaking US foreign policy to protect Israel. This involved first recreating the Soviet Union as the big bad wolf (Cold War 2). As Curtis showed, this entailed the wholesale fabrication of a renewed […]
[…] in Southern Iraq, I was informed. Heavy casualties resulted. The operation, directed by the Central Intelligence Agency, was a counter-strike, following an Iraqi Scud that fell on Israel. The missile had contained Sarin. Fuming, the Israelis had prepared to detonate a nuclear warhead high above Baghdad. Only the swift intervention of President George Bush […]
[…] He didn’t manage to match Sikorski’s rise to the top job, but his influence remains considerable (Lobsters passim) through his work on behalf of Labour Friends of Israel and friendship with newly appointed Independent editor Roger Alton. McShane’s partner is Joan Smith, a columnist on Tribune and The Independent on Sunday. Friends of ‘the […]
