Posts by Tony Greenstein
Farewell Comrade Willem Johannes Meijs 12th April 1941—21st March 2017
Willem Meijs – A friend and fighter for Palestine and a better world On 21st March, Willem Meijs, the husband of my dear friend Sue Blackwell, passed away in a hospice in the Dutch town of Hoorn. Six days later I made my first foreign trip since having a liver transplant 18 months ago to…
Read MoreFull Support to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Hunger Strike
Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian Mandela, on why the prisoners have no other option On April 16th 700 Palestinian prisoners began a hunger strike. Israel reacted in the way that you would expect a State of Terror to react. It declared that the hunger strike, a weapon of last resort used by prisoners the world over…
Read MoreZionism’s Court Historians – Reinventing the past in order to manipulate the future
Lying in the service of the Israeli state Oxford’s Professor Jane Caplan Attacks Ken Livingstone the “Beitar Heart” Instagram account of Jerusalem’s Beitar fan club featured an image of a candle lit to commemorate Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. The image was tagged with #Death to Arabs! Jane Caplan, Emeritus Professor of History in Modern European History…
Read MoreJim Crow is Alive and Well in Israel
Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second class…
Read MoreIs there a Hebrew nation in Israel and does it have the right to self-determination?
The overthrow of Zionism is incompatible with a Hebrew nation My article in this week’s Weekly Worker, is a reply to the article Palestine and Hebrew self-determination by veteran Israeli socialist and anti-Zionist, the founder of Matzpen, Moshe Machover. It is a debate about something that people rarely debate any more in the Palestine solidarity movement, strategy. We…
Read MoreFighting the Tories – Within and Without
No Overall Control is a likely outcome A good opening start to the election campaign – In Brighton the key dilemma is whether to concentrate on the winnable Kemptown seat or throw them away in Pavilion when the current MP is to the left of most Labour MPs We had an interesting discussion at Brighton…
Read MoreLabour Can Win if Corbyn is Bold – the Key Issue is Poverty and the Transfer of Wealth
John Woodcock Must Not be Allowed to Stand There is no reason that this scab should be a Labour candidate It was Harold Wilson who said that a week is a long time in politics. Seven weeks is a political eternity. Theresa May has taken a gamble that her 21% lead will hold. It is…
Read MoreThere is only one slogan that matters now!
Land Apartheid in Israel – Knesset Votes for New Bill to Demolish Arab Homes and Villages
Israeli Arabs are 20% of the population yet they occupy 2½% of the land Israeli policemen stand guard as bulldozers demolish homes in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, on January 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana) You might think that a new Bill to prevent building contrary to the planning…
Read MoreYitzhak Yosef Advocates a Nazi-solution for the Palestinians
Stephardic Chief Rabbi, ethnic cleanser, Yitzhak Yosef I realise that I will probably be accused of ‘anti-Semitism’. However the ‘solution’ to the Jewish Question when the Nazis came to power was also ethnic cleansing i.e. expulsion. In fact expulsion and genocide are two sides of the same coin. The Orthodox Rabbis are also at the…
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