Posts by Tony Greenstein
Israel’s Ambassador Daniel Taub is Recalled Because of Child Sex Scandal
‘I prefer pigs myself’ First it was Grovel Janner, notorious serial paedophile and former President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and mainstay of Labour Friends of Israel and now Daniel Taub, Israel’s former Ambassador to the UK and a religious Zionist. How many more skeletons are there in the Zionist cupboard? What…
Read MoreSaudis Overturn Death Sentence on Palestinian Poet Ashraf Fayadh – Flogging & Prison Instead
Ashraf Fayadh Mahmoud Abbas and the PA’s UK Representative Manuel Hassassian Keep Silent Whilst it is welcome that the death sentence on Ashraf Fayadh has been overturned, the sentence of 8 years in prison and 800 lashes is nonetheless a barbaric outrage. It speaks volumes that the British Government has supplied some $3 billion of weaponry…
Read MoreBlack Victims of the Holocaust
Young Rhinelander, classified as bastard and hereditarily unfit (see image description) Although the fate of the Jews during the holocaust is well known, the fate of Germany’s Black population goes without mention. This an interesting article on the terrible experiences of Germany’s small Black population. Black people, like Arabs, were lower on the Nazi’s racial…
Read MoreWeaponising Jewish Suffering in order to Inflict More Suffering
It takes the genius of imperialism’s ideological and propaganda offensive to turn the industrial annihilation of 6 million people into a propaganda weapon in aid of further suffering and murder. Israel, a state that has either murdered or helped murder some quarter of a million people since its formation, has made the misuse of the…
Read MoreThe Strong and the Weak
Israeli Knesset Rejects Bill to Enshrine Equality in Law
A Palestinian citizen of Israel waves a Palestinian flag during a protest against the police killing of Khir Hamdan in Umm al-Fahm. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org) It should be no surprise that when faced with a choice of enshrining equality in Israel’s Basic Law (the equivalent of a constitutional law) the Knesset voted it down. Not…
Read MoreSupport Israel’s Refuseniks – Tair Kaminer and Tanya Golan
Tair Kaminer, a 19 year old Israeli, has already spent 20 days in a military prison for refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. She is being hauled up again and faces a repeat of the sentence. Joining her is another 19 year old, Tanya Golan. Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton has already…
Read MoreVideo Emerges of Netanyahu Praising Israeli Fascist Group Im Tirtzu
In this article from Electronic Intifada we learn of death threats to the Swedish Foreign Minister from Zvi Zameret, a former official of Israel’s education ministry. In his article Zameret recounts the fate of Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish diplomat who was murdered by the Stern Gang/Lehi in Jerusalem in September 1948. Bernadotte had been…
Read MoreFree Egyptian Union Activist Dr Taher Mokhtar
The Egypt Police State is one of the most vicious states in the world. Torture is normal for political activists who are arrested and many activists simply ‘disappear’. It is a state where hundreds of people are sentenced to death at the same time in what is a mockery of the idea of a fair…
Read MoreDenmark’s Nazi Like Treatment of Refugees
As this cartoon from Steven Bell shows, the decision by the Danish state to strip refugees of all valuables brings to mind the treatment of Jewish deportees by the Nazis. This is especially shameful given the heroic record of Danish people during the second world war when the vast majority of Danish Jews were saved…
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