Posts by Tony Greenstein
Brighton & Hove’s Monster Demonstration Against Trump
Praise from one racist Israel’s Prime Minister to Donald Trump – it’s what I’ve already done Netanyahu tweeted Only Israel and Netanyahu Welcome the Mexican Wall and the Ban on Muslims Completely blocked – the intersection of Bartholomew Square, where Brighton town hall is situated, with Prince Albert Street and The Laines, with Cafe Rouge…
Read MoreIsraeli Labour Party Supports Netanyahu’s Attempt to Expel an Arab MK, Basel Ghattas
Basel Ghattas is the latest Arab member of the Knesset to come under attack from the Jewish majority It is one of the boasts of Israel that it is the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’. Arabs can vote goes the narrative, therefore we are a democracy. Of course the idea that a democracy…
Read MoreLetter from 112 Labour Party members to Jeremy Corbyn
It is time for Labour to say Goodbye to Labour Friends of Israel Update: People are still writing in saying they support this – so I am updating it continuously as many people feel strongly about allowing a lobby funded by another state to interfere in the internal workings of the Labour Party I have…
Read MorePersona Non Grata & Banishment – The Price of Jon Lansman’s Displeasure
The Motto? Telling the Truth to Power Doesn’t Always Pay! Be gone Spot and never grace my Inbox again! Jon always liked to cultivate an image of power – little did I realise it would go to his head They say the personal is political, but that isn’t always true. Sometimes the personal is,…
Read MoreTam Dalyell RIP – A Remarkable MP
When Tam got thrown out of the House by corrupt Speaker, Michael Martin for insisting on a debate on Iraq A Brave Internationalist and anti-imperialist It is with genuine sadness that I learnt tonight of the death of Tam Dalyell. He was one of the most extraordinary Labour MPs, an Old Etonian. For much of…
Read MoreBrighton and Hove Momentum Overwhelmingly Rejects Lansman’s Coup
B&H Momentum Votes to Oppose the Witch-hunt and for Labour to Break all links with Labour Friends of Israel After Jon Lansman’s coup against democracy a couple of weeks ago [Lansman’s Kitchen Coup Against Momentum’s Membership] members of Brighton and Hove Momentum had the chance to give their views on what had happened. Momentum’s self-appointed…
Read MorePalestine Solidarity Conference 2017 – The Carthorse Continues on its Leisurely Pace
Conference Strongly Critical of Lethargy Over Anti-Semitism Campaign but Executive Survives with Union Block Vote The Conference had around 300 delegates I’ve often thought that Lowes cartoon description of the TUC as a lumbering carthorse was also a good description of PSC Executive. Its inability to react in a crisis, to map out a strategy…
Read MoreOpen Letter to Jeremy Corbyn – Don’t Play with an Apartheid Organisation – Labour Friends of Israel
Cut your links with Labour Friends of Settlements, Apartheid & Ethnic Cleansing Jeremy Corbyn at the LFI fringe meeting – they wouldn’t have dreamt have inviting him b4 being elected The Jewish Labour Movement and LFI play up their false anti-Semitism narrative for all its worth I am posting this to ask that if you…
Read MoreFake claims blown apart
Al Jazeera’s The lobby exposes the establishment’s ‘anti-Semitism’ claims for what they are, writes Tony Greenstein This article also appears in this week’s issue of Weekly Worker The Jewish Labour Movement at the 80th anniversary of the anti-fascist Battle of Cable Street – in 1936 the Zionist movement opposed confronting the fascists Corbyn betraying everything…
Read MoreThis is Zionism – The Demolition of Umm al-Hiran
Umm al-Hiran on the morning before the bulldozers moved in for a spot of ethnic cleansing Racism and Zionism are like Siamese Twins Shami Chakrabarti, who was enlisted by Jeremy Corbyn to write a report on racism and anti-Semitism spouted a load of nonsense about Zionism, the racist ideology and movement that gave birth to…
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