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River Island: Why boycott?

River Island is owned by the Lewis family, via the Lewis Trust Group. The family owns a string of other businesses, as well as operating two charitable trusts which give significant sums to the Zionist project, including to 1. the Zionist occupation forces - the so called 'Israel Defence Forces'; 2. Illegal settlements; 3. Zionist fundraising and lobby groups; 4. Islamophobic think tanks;. The family also have economic interests in Israel. 
The River Island retail chain, was founded by Bernard Lewis. He built the business with his elder brother David Lewis.James Robinson, Rags mean riches for the River Island family, guardian.co.uk, 19 August 2007. When he died David was referred to as a 'pioneering champion of Zionism' by the Daily Express.https://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/266021/Obituary-David-Lewis-pionering-champion-of-Zionism-1924-2011/amp The family is headed today by Simon Lewis. 
==Philanthropy==
The family runs two charitable trusts which regularly donate to Zionist causes. These are Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust and David and Ruth Lewis Family Charitable Trust. The charities have given to the following:
===Funding the occupation forces===
UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers (£5,000) | | British ORT (£6,000)
===Funding illegal settlements===
Friends of Yad Sarah UK (£13,911) | Jewish National Fund (135,000) | Jerusalem Foundation (£632,131) | Aish Ha Torah UK Limited (£102,000)
===Funding Zionist lobby groups===
Alliance for Middle East Peace (£50,000) | Anglo-Israel Association (£31,950) | Campaign Against Antisemitism (£439,367) | Community Security Trust (£242,400) | Council of Christians and Jews (£18,000) | Friends of the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies (£13,313) | Israel Centre for Social & Economic Progress (£173,303) | Jewish Leadership Council |(107,500) | One Voice Europe (£313,900) | Palestinian Media Watch (£30,000) | Reform Judaism (£125,000) | Shalom Foundation of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland/Zionist Federation (18,125) | Solutions Not Sides (130,000) | The Coexistence Trust (£13,000) | Union of Jewish Students (£25,000) | United Jewish Israel Appeal | WIZO UK (£31,000)
===Funding Islamophobic think tanks===
Policy Exchange
==Political donations in the UK==
The Lewis Trust Group and family members have donated significantly to the Conservative Party.
==Other business interests==
*Founders of the iconic 60s retailer Chelsea Girl and later River Island diversified their portfolio of businesses to include real estate, private equity, hotels & leisure and other consumer driven businesses. These include Blue Coast Capital
===Interests in 'Israel'===
The Lewis family, also own the Isrotel hotel chain in Israel via LFH International the parent company of the Lewis Trust Group.
==Resources==
*Boycott Lewis Trust]
==Notes==
Riverstone Holdings

Riverstone Holdings is an energy and power-focused private investment firm founded in 2000 by David M. Leuschen and Pierre F. Lapeyre, Jr. with approximately $27 billion of equity capital raised. 
==Activities==
Riverstone 'conducts buyout and growth capital investments in the exploration & production, midstream, oilfield services, power and renewable sectors of the energy industry'. 
With offices in New York, London and Houston, the firm has committed approximately $24.8 billion to 104 investments in North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Riverstone Holdings, Overview, Company website 
==Investments==
Riverstone owns 45% of UK shale gas explorer Cuadrilla Resources Holdings Ltd, which is privately owned by its management team (10%) and the Australian drilling and engineering company AJ Lucas (also owns 45%).
Riverstone committed to Cuadrilla in 2010. According to Cuadrilla's CEO Francis Egan, “Riverstone is more than a shareholder. They contribute tangible value with their connections to globally recognized experts, fiscal knowledge, and unique understanding of all aspects of the energy sector and its relationship with society.' Riverstone Holdings Investments, undated, last accessed June 2019 
==Subsidiary==
Riverstone Holdings (RH) floated investment company Riverstone Energy in late October 2013 and said it would use the proceeds to invest across the global energy market. RH partner Lord Browne was initially on the board of the new company, alongside senior industry figures such as Sir Robert Wilson, former chairman of BG Group, and Jim Hackett, former chief executive of Anadarko Petroleum. Alec Mattison, Brunswick backs float of Lord Browne's Riverstone energy fund PRWeek,25 September 2013 
==People==
====Partners====
Lord John Browne - stepped down from the board in early 2015.
Stephen S. Coats
James T. Hackett | 
Michael B. Hoffman | 
N. John Lancaster, Jr | 
Stephen J. Schaefer | 
Andrew W. Ward | 
Elizabeth K. Weymouth | Mark Papa (from February 2015)
====Managing directors====
Includes Daniel Yergin
====Principals====
====Vice presidents====
====Associates====
*Matthew Powell, Chief of staff
*Brian Potskowski, associate, Riverstone Holdings LLC
=====Former vice presidents===== 
*Ben Moxham
==Lobbyists and comms firms==
Brunswick was mandated to lead the comms activities for the £1.5bn flotation of Riverstone Energy. The firm had previously worked with Lord Browne at BP, with founder Alan Parker personally advising Browne during his resignation from the oil giant after the publication of details concerning his personal life. 
==Contact==
right|thumb|300px|Riverstone's former London office, 3 Burlington Gardens
:Address: 3 St James’s Square
:London SW1Y 4JU
:England
:Website:http://www.riverstonellc.com/Section.aspx/1/Overview
==Resources==
See: Fracking Spads
See: Fracking lobbying firms
*Melissa Jones and Andy Rowell, Access all areas: Westminster's (vast) fracking lobby exposed, 29 April 2015.
*Alec Mattison, Brunswick backs float of Lord Browne's Riverstone energy fund PRWeek,25 September 2013
==Notes==
Category:Fracking
Rizvana Kausar

Rizvana Kausar is human resources director at Burson Marsteller.
==Career==
Kausar has worked in HR at the National Health Service, HCA International Ltd, Talk Talk and Burson Marsteller. Rizvana Kausar Linkedin, accessed 20 October 2014 Rizvana Kausar Burson Marsteller, accessed 20 October 2014 
==Education==
*BA Hons, Business and Human Resources, Middlesex University 1997 – 2001
*MA, Human Resources, University of Westminster 2003 – 2005
==Notes==
Road Haulage Association

The Road Haulage Association, which signed former Transport Minister Stephen Norris for £150,000 a year, is similar to the Freight Transport Association, except that it represents the hauliers (over 10,000 members) rather than the freight users. It has 30 staff. BBC, Steve Norris: Tory who ran as liberal, 5 May 2000.
==Members==
Edinburgh based PR firm Bell Johnstone Communications (also known as the Bell Johnstone Agency) is reported to be an Allied Industry Member of the Road Haulage AssociationBell Johnstone Communications FACTS Accessed 6th May 2008.
==Affiliations==
*Transport Forum All Party Parliamentary Group
==Lobbying on Fuel Tax==
It is reported that the Road Haulage Association and the Freight Transport Association met with Alistair Darling (Chancellor of the Exchequer) on 11 February 2008 to push for the abandonment of plans to increase fuel dutyBell Johnstone Communications FACTS Accessed 6th May 2008.
==PR and lobbying firms==
*Tendo Consulting, since 2015. Mark Leftly Ousted Lib Dem special advisers Peter Carroll and Will de Peyer turn to lobbying Independent, 13 July 2015, accessed 21 July 2015. 
==References==
Road to Copenhagen

Road to Copenhagen is the UK government's official ambitions and strategy in the run up to Copenhagen. The Road to Copenhagen document (and pamphlets which were widely distributed) was launched alongside Act on Copenhagen in June 2009.Road to Copenhagen, , Accessed 25/11/09
 
==Activities==
==History==
==NUS collaboration==
The National Union of Students and Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have launched an interactive website which aims to produce a 'democratic' and 'shared vision' to bring to Copenhagen. Students can add ideas to existing texts or generate their own texts on the areas of Mitigation, Adaptation, Forestry, Technology, Finance, and Governance which will be voted on before 5th December 2009.
NGOs such as World Wildlife Fund and Save the Children have also contributed alongside DECC itself.
The final Vision will be published on 5 December as part of the Stop Climate Chaos march, and presented to Ed Miliband ahead of his departure for the Copenhagen negotiations in December.Road to Copenhagen, Student manifesto, Accessed 25/11/09
==People==
==Funding==
==Clients==
==Publications==
==Contact==
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==Resources==
==Notes==
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Rob Clowes

Rob Clowes is an academic and is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. Specifically, he has written for Spiked and Culture Wars and is chairman of the Brighton Salon. "Profile of Rob Clowes", Brighton Salon website, accessed 3 May 2010
==Contact==
*Facebook Dr Rob Clowes 
* University of Sussex Rob Clowes at Sussex 
==Notes==
Clowes, Rob
Rob Marris

Rob Marris was the Labour Party MP for Wolverhampton South West from 2001 to 2010. Rob Marris Labour, accessed 22 April 2015 
Having returned to government in 2015, Marris was successfully elected in the May 2015 general election with a marginal majority of just 801 over closest competitor Conservative candidate Paul Uppal. Rob Marris Express, accessed 18 May 2015 
==Back for more! 14 Labour and Lib Dem ex-MPs given payoffs of up to £55,000 when they lost their seats are standing again==
In 2010 Marris was given a payoff of £32,383 after losing his constituency seat. He has however, been recalled by the Labour Party to stand for Wolverhampton South West for the general election in May 2015. Back for more! 14 Labour and Lib Dem ex-MPs given payoffs of up to £55,000 when they lost their seats are standing again Daily Mail, 5 February 2015, accessed 22 April 2015 
==Notes==
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Rob Pierson

::Rob is a Congressional Aide for a Congressman from the Silicon Valley. Prior to beginning his job in the House of Representatives, Rob was an intern for Senator Chuck Schumer. Before coming to DC he spent a year in Israel doing the Otzma fellowship. While in Israel, he taught English to Bedouins and started a youth group for refugees from the South Lebanese Army. He graduated from Reed College after becoming Editor-in-Chief of the Reed College Quest.About YPFP - Young Professionals in Foreign Policy, accessed 22 March 2008.
==Affiliations==
*Young Professionals in Foreign Policy
==Notes==
Rob Rees

Rob Rees is a former chef, restaurateur and former board member of the Food Standards Agency. He chairs Kraft's Health4schools project and is a trustee for the British Nutrition Foundation. He Chairs the SW Delivering Group for the Year of Food and Farming, the GOSW Transforming School Food Group and Stroud Educational Business Partnership. He is Director of 2 Companies Rob Rees Consulting Ltd, The Cotswold Chef Ltd. Rees is also a Member of the Food Standards Agency Advisory Committee on Microbiological Safety of Food and the Ambassador for Gloucestershire Food Vision. He was awarded an MBE in 2005 for Services to the Food Industry and the Image of Britain Award in 2006. Text taken from: School Food Trust Our Board
==Affiliations==
*British Nutrition Foundation, trustee
*School Food Trust, trustee.
*Health4schools, chair
*Food Standards Agency
*Chief Executive of The Wiggly Worm Ltd charity
Category:Food lobbyists and PR consultants
==References==
Rob Suss

Rob Suss is an investment banker. He is currently Director at Pace Holdings Corp. and was formerly Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.
==Israel Advocacy==
Suss is a Committee Member of Culture for Coexistence, an organisation that opposes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Harriet Sherwood, 'Star authors call for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue rather than boycotts', The Guardian, 22 October 2015, accessed 23 October 2015 Suss is a trustee of Lumos, a children's charity founded by JK Rowling. Rowling was one of the signatories to a letter in The Guardian launching CfC in October 2015.Harriet Sherwood, 'Star authors call for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue rather than boycotts', The Guardian, 22 October 2015, accessed 23 October 2015 LinkedIn Rob Suss. Accessed 23 October 2015.
==Notes==
Category:Israel Lobby
Rob Templeman

Rob Templeman is the chairman of Gala Coral Group and the RAC.
==Career==
Templeman has been chief executive of some of the largest companies in the UK including Debenhams, Homebase, Harveys Furnishing Group and Halfords.
He is currently the chairman of Gala Coral Group and the RAC. Gala Coral Leadership, accessed 7 April 2015.
==Support for the Conservatives==
On 1 April 2015 Templeman was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 7 April 2015.
==Notes==
Templeman, Rob
Rob Wilson

Rob Wilson has been the Conservative Party MP for Reading East since 2005.Rob Wilson, www.parliament.uk, 24 August 2013. 
He was appointed as parliamentary secretary to the cabinet office (minister for civil society) following the resignation of Brooks Newmark in September 2014.Tory minister Brooks Newmark resigns from government, BBC News, 27 September 2014.
In the 2015 general election, Wilson retained his seat with a majority of 6,520. Rob Wilson Express, accessed 19 May 2015 
==Notes==
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Rob Wright

Rob Wright became Deputy Minister of the Department of Finance in June 2006. He began his federal government career in 1975 as an economist with the Department of External Affairs.CDIC, CDIC Board of Directors—Biographies, accessed 31 March 2009.
==Resources==
*CDIC, CDIC Board of Directors—Biographies, accessed 31 March 2009.
==Notes==
Wright, Rob
Robert Alcock

Robert Alcock was appointed to the board of directors of Huntsworth in May 2005, following the merger with Incepta Group plc. He is the chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee. He has been a member of the board of directors of Incepta since 2001. He is currently a non executive director of Capita Group plc, where he chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of the Remuneration Committee. He is also chairman of Anglo & Oversees Trust plc and chairman of Next Pension Trustees Limited. Previous positions include group managing director of Norcros plc, European finance director of RJR Nabisco Inc., chief financial officer and senior vice president of Black & Decker Inc., director of Capita Group plc and director of strategic planning for Gulf Oil's international operations. Text taken from: Huntsworth website Group Board
==References==
Robert Andrew

Sir Robert Andrew is a former Permanent Secretary at the Northern Ireland Office.
Sir Robert was Private Secretary at the Ministry of Defence from 1971-73.Brits, Part 1, The Secret War, transcript, BBC News, accessed 10 April 2008.
Lobster magazine described him as 'Britain's top spook in Northern Ireland in 1984.Spooks UK, Lobster Magazine, August 1984. 
==Shoot-to-kill/Stalker Affair==
Sir Robert was head of the NIO at the time of the Stalker Affair.
::He says: "There was an argument for saying that prosecutions should have been brought to clear the air and to demonstrate that the government was not covering up illegal activities. On the other hand, there was a fear that if police officers, and even more so, officers from the security service, were put in the dock and had to answer questions on oath, intelligence-gathering methods and the identity of individuals would have become known and prejudiced [their] effectiveness".
::Sir Robert says his then political master, Tom King, judged that a prosecution was "undesirable". Shoot-to-kill evidence destroyed, by Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, 23 May 2000. 
==References==
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Robert Armour

Oil and Gas Authority non executive board member.
:Robert Armour is a solicitor with 30 years’ experience in the energy sector, starting in private practice before becoming General Counsel at Scottish Nuclear and British Energy Group plc. He is currently Non-Executive Director of Albion Community Power plc and The Nuclear Liabilities Fund and Deputy Chair of NuGeneration Limited.
==Affiliations==
*Former director Scottish Council for Development and Industry
* British Energy.
Robert Baer

Robert Baer is a former CIA officer who has been courted by both the left and the right. After leaving CIA he worked for CBS as a consultant, but now appears as a pundit for CNN and Fox News. With the rise of anti-Saudi sentiment, especially in recent years after Michael Moore's film, he has commented on the subject on various news programs. He presents himself as an expert on Saudi Arabia although he is not known to have visited Saudi Arabia. The recent hollywood film Syriana is an adaptation of his book on Saudi Arabia, See no Evil. 
Here's a sample of his views, in an article he authored for The Guardian called "This deadly virus":
:There is a new plague on the streets of London, the pathological virus of the cult of suicide bombing. The 7 July suicide bombings were a searing wake-up call for the British government and the British people. I can't say I was surprised.
:In fact I knew it was coming. It was only a matter of time.
:Suicide bombing is not new. I have spent my whole life studying suicide terrorism and the communities that glorify this cult of martyrdom. ...
:Suicide bombing is a weapon of terror. English friends joke about getting the 'Death Tube' home but when I was in London earlier this week I could not help but notice how one of my favourite cities was starting to look like some of the war-torn places I was stationed in by the CIA. The fear is palpable.
:How can you fight suicide terrorism in Britain?
:The first thing we have to do is understand the nature of our enemy. We are continually looking for the one foreign, turbaned, mastermind who we secretly hope will be responsible for everything. Kill him and our nightmare is over. Robert Baer, This deadly virus, The Guardian, 7 August 2005, accessed 9 April 2009
==Cult of the Suicide Bomber==
Baer was the main presenter in Cult of the Suicide Bomber. The Cult of the Suicide Bomber, Channel 4, 2005 and 8 Oct 2007
==On Lockerbie==
In August 2009, Baer told the Sunday Mail that Abdelbaset Al Megrahi would have seen his conviction for the Lockerbie bombing overturned if his appeal had gone ahead:
::"There is hard evidence of other nations - Iran particularly - being responsible for this atrocity.
::"The CIA knew this almost from the moment the plane exploded. This decision to free Megrahi was about protecting the integrity of your justiciary because the appeal papers prove Iran was involved.
::"That doesn't mean Megrahi is innocent but had it been presented at Camp Zeist, there would never have been a conviction. I knew this information back then so you can rest assured both MI5 and MI6 knew.Charles Lavery, CIA Spook Says Megrahi Was Freed Before Appeal Humiliated Justice System, Sunday Mail, 23 August 2009.
==References, Resources and Contact==
===Resources===
*Re-Inventing Saudi Arabia: The View from Washington, The Daily Star, January 17, 2004
*A Buzzflash Interview with Robert Baer, Buzzflash, September 12, 2003
*Interview with Robert Baer, BBC Three
*Panorama Profile, BBC News
===References===
Baer, Robert
Baer, Robert
Robert Balling Jr.

==Background==
=== Education ===
:1974: AB, Wittenberg University
:1975: MA, Bowling Green State University
:1979: PhD in geography from the University of Oklahoma
===Controversial Relations and Positions=== 
Balling has acknowledged that he had received $408,000 in research funding from the fossil fuel industry over the last decade (of which his University takes 50% for overhead). Contributors include ExxonMobil, the British Coal Corporation, Cyprus Minerals and OPEC.
His views have led to his enthusiastic adoption by various members of the free-market extremist Atlas Economic Research Foundation network. He writes regularly for the Cato Institute, Tech Central Station and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
His writings find him regularly in the company of other prominent climate change sceptics, including Sallie L. Baliunas, and S. Fred Singer of the Science and Environmental Policy Project.
In August 2004 Balling told Business Week "I'm convinced there will be engineering schemes that will allow our children's children to have whatever climate they want".
===Books===
*Robert C. Balling, The Heated debate: greenhouse predictions versus climate reality, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, April 1992, ISBN 0936488476
*Robert C. Balling, Martin A. J. Williams, Interactions of Desertification & Climate, Oxford University Press, October 1995, ISBN 0340632178
*Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, The Satanic Gases: clearing the air about global warming, National Book Network, 2000 ASIN: 1882577914
===Affiliations===
:European Academy for Environmental Affairs
:European Science and Environment Forum
:Environment & Climate News (Heartland Institute), Contributing Editor
:Greening Earth Society, Advisor
:International Policy Network 
===Contact information===
:Phone: (480) 965-6265 
:Fax: (480) 965-1473 
:E-mail: robert.balling AT asu.edu 
:Website 
===External Links===
*"Balling Central ", Robert Balling home page, accessed Dec 2003
*"Scientific advisors," Greening Earth Society
*Robert Balling, "Gorey Details", Goldwater Institute News, May 26, 2006
*Robert C. Balling, Wikipedia
===References===
#http://www.news-council.org/Outcomes/outcomes_det-118.html, Minnesota News Council, Determination 118 ("In the Matter of the Complaint of Drs. Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling against The Star Tribune"), April 16, 1998
#http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_33/b3896001_mz001.htm, John Carey, "Global Warming", Business Week, August 16, 2004.
==Notes==
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