israel lobby
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Foreign Office met pro-Israel lobbyist to discuss arms exports
Exclusive: Pro-Israel lobbyist Trevor Chinn offered top diplomat ‘recommendations’ on Middle East policy. Continue reading
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The Imperialism of Mearsheimer’s ‘Israel Lobby as Puppet Master’ Theory
A tiny speck of a nation somehow controls the most powerful empire in human history, home to the most powerful corporate giants and the wealthiest near-trillionaires ever. Continue reading
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Israel Lobby funds government review of ‘extremism’
Jonathan Woodcock, a member of the House of Lords, has spearheaded a government review aimed at combating ‘extremism’ and shutting down support for the Palestinian cause. Continue reading
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Network Contagion Research Institute Exposed
Israel apologists are citing a new report from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), which claims that Middle Eastern money is fueling a vast wave of anti-Semitic sentiment on U.S. college campuses. Continue reading
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15 Labour MPs have been directly funded by Israel
Tuesday, 13 February 2024 — MintPress News Labour MPs have received more than £280,000 in funding from the Israel lobby. Among Labour’s current MPs, at least twenty percent have been directly funded by pro-Israeli individuals or groups, with fifteen Labour MPs directly funded by the Israeli government. Continue reading
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UK Dept of Education pushing pro-Israel agenda in Schools and Universities
The British Department of Education is tendering a £5.5 million contract for an organisation to push a pro-Israel agenda in schools and universities Continue reading
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Kim Johnson row: Starmer is oiling Israel’s slide into fascism
What’s become all too clear over the past three years is that Labour leader Keir Starmer tolerates no criticism of Israel whatsoever – even when such criticism accords with international law, the verdict of the human rights community or just plain common sense. Continue reading
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Don’t Let The Pro-Israeli Lobby Cancel Lowkey! Sign the Petition
We artists, musicians and other public figures and organisations are deeply concerned by the coordinated campaign against rapper and campaigner Lowkey. Continue reading
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Iron Dome: Don’t be deceived – US aid to Israel is not about saving lives
Battles in the US Congress that erupted again this week, holding up an extra $1bn in military funding for Israel, underscored just how divorced from reality the conversation about US financial aid to Israel has become, even among many critics. Continue reading
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After Hartlepool there is only one question. Is Labour’s decline terminal?
It never ceases to amaze how the repetition of a lie quickly becomes a received truth. Goebbels must be turning in his grave. If only Labour had supported Brexit then all would be well. The statistics demonstrate that regardless of the position Labour took it would have done badly. Continue reading
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In Wake of HRW Apartheid Report, Israeli Propagandists Launch Global PR Offensive
Much of the online anger at the Human Rights Watch report was actually manufactured by an Israeli government-sponsored app, Act.IL, which organized supporters of the Jewish state to act in sync to create an artificial groundswell of opposition to it. Continue reading
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How the IHRA antisemitism definition became a pro-Israel cudgel
New research charts a five-year campaign by highly partisan, pro-Israel lobby groups to mislead the international community about the nature of what has been widely described as the “gold standard” definition of antisemitism. Continue reading
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Labour antisemitism allegations: How Corbyn and Starmer are judged by different standards
For years, allies of Jeremy Corbyn argued that allegations of antisemitism had been weaponised against the then-Labour leader and his supporters to undermine his socialist programme and stifle criticism of Israel. Continue reading
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Starmer isn’t ‘too cautious’ – he is ruthlessly tearing Labour apart
The completion of Keir Starmer’s first year as Labour leader might have passed without note, had it not been the occasion for senior party figures to express mounting concern at Labour’s dismal performance in opposition to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government. Continue reading
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With this flawed antisemitism definition, Britain is closing down academic freedom
In October, British Education Secretary Gavin Williamson ordered universities in the country to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s working definition of antisemitism. They are to do so by Christmas or face government sanctions. Continue reading
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Israel’s growing strategic threat to our freedom of speech
There is an old saying that you should not put the fox in charge of the hen house. It makes perfect sense, and yet that’s exactly what Western governments are increasingly starting to do when it comes to their freedom of speech policies. All bluster about “cancel culture” aside, the leading threat in the world… Continue reading
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Zoom censors events about Zoom censorship
Facilitating the agendas of Israel lobby groups, videoconferencing platform Zoom once again censored events in the US and UK featuring the Palestinian resistance icon Leila Khaled. Continue reading
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It is the equalities commission, not Labour, carrying out political interference
I recently published in Middle East Eye a long analysis of last week’s report by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission into the question of whether the UK Labour party had an especial antisemitism problem. (You can read a slightly fuller version of that article on my website.) In the piece, I reached two main conclusions. Continue reading
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The Lancet censors Gaza health letter after pro-Israel pressure
The letter – “Structural violence in the era of a new pandemic: the case of the Gaza Strip” – was duly published in the The Lancet online on 27 March. Just three days later, however, in a move unusual if not unprecedented for The Lancet, the letter was taken down without comment. Continue reading
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Scottish “friend of Israel” faked anti-Semitism for years
A pro-Israel lobbyist in Scotland may lose his teaching job over a series of anti-Semitic posts he has admitted making. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 