Tag: UK ZIONIST LOBBY

NOVANEWS Israel lobby tries to intimidate another British MP By Stuart Littlewood Here we go again. On 8 July British MP “Battling” Bob Russell was speaking during a House of Commons debate on the national curriculum in schools Bob Russell (Colcheste, Liberal Democrat): The secretary of state referred to more coverage of world history. On the assumption that the 20th century will include the holocaust, will he give me an assurance that the life of Palestinians since 1948 will be given equal attention? Michael Gove, Education Secretary [and fervent Friend of Israel]: These are delicate waters, into which I fear to tread too definitively. One thing I would say is that there has been near universal welcome and support for the centrality of the holocaust and the unique evil inherent in the h...

NOVANEWS Israeli embassy backing campaign to topple Britain’s pro-Palestine student leader RT  Israeli authorities collaborated with student campaigners in an attempt to topple the president of the UK’s National Union of Students (NUS), Malia Bouattia, undercover filming suggests. Al Jazeera reports the Israeli embassy in Britain and the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) have sponsored attempts to influence student politics, manipulate NUS elections, and even bring down the current president. NUS vice president Richard Brooks is seen in footage telling an undercover reporter he is the one helping to organize Bouattia’s opponents. Bouattia, who represents more than 4 million students, ran on an openly pro-Palestinian platform, and has been criticized in the Briti...

NOVANEWS Israeli UK Embassy Scandal: Officer Who Sought to Destroy Tory Leader Worked for Strategic Affairs Ministry Israeli minister Gil Erdan meets with Conservative Friends of Israel MPs during the London visit, when he also met with Shai Masot By Richard Silverstein  The Guardian has uncovered a major element of the Shai Masot scandal. I speculated in my last post about this story that Masot worked for an Israeli intelligence agency. No one I consulted found it likely it could be the Mossad.  Masot was too public and too pushy to be Mossad. Others speculated that he worked for the IDF intelligence unit, AMAN, since he had until recently been an IDF Major. But his LinkedIn account noted that he’d left the IDF. Now the Guardian has put two and two together and gotten closer to key el...