Posts by Tony Greenstein
Free 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…
Read MoreReport on PSC AGM 2016
PSC Executive – Conservative and Fearful of Its Own Shadow Despite nominally opposing Prevent, PSC Executive opposed affiliating to the Together Against Prevent group Below is a report on PSC AGM by Gerry Downing. It is fine as it goes but fails to draw out many of the political conclusions from this year’s event. I…
Read MoreThe Attack on Israel’s Human Rights Organisations by the State
When Israeli Jewish Opponents of the Occupation are Targeted for attack the Israeli Labour Party Offers its Support Ezra Nawi – arrested Human Rights Worker The article below in Israel’s 972 Magazine illustrates graphically the attack on Israeli human rights organisations and groups which oppose the Occupation and highlight its casual brutality. Ezra Nawi has been detained,…
Read MoreIsraeli Police Simply Ignore Court Order to Release Palestinian –
Jewish Co-defendants Tried Under Different Legal System The police took Nasser Nawaj’ah out of the West Bank and into Israel to face trial. When that didn’t work, they ignored a court order to release him and smuggled him back to the West Bank and into military custody. Despite calling itself the ‘only democracy in the…
Read MoreEx-Netanyahu Aide Aviv Bushinsky Calls US Ambassador ‘A Little Jew Boy’
Zionist anti-Semitism in the ‘Jewish’ State Theodor Herzl – the original Jewish anti-Semite It would be difficult to find a more anti-Semitic and derogatory remark than ‘Jew Boy’. Possibly ‘kike’ and ‘yid’ might fit the bill. It was what the fascists called Jews in the ‘30’s and it has all but gone out of fashion…
Read MoreIsrael Herzog v Gideon Levy and the Bankruptcy of Israeli Labour
The debate in the pages of Ha’aretz between Gideon Levy and Isaac Hertzog, leader of the Zionist Union/Israeli Labor Party demonstrates the utter bankruptcy of the Zionist ‘left’. It is a useful reminder of how useless the Israeli Labour Party is since there are illusions among the Corbynistas, not least Corbyn himself, that the Israeli…
Read MoreJeremy Corbyn & the Retreat from Palestine
Jewish Chronicle report of Corbyn Backing Down Over Israel/Palestine Appeasing Zionism and Ignoring the Palestinians I have know Jeremy Corbyn for over 30 years. When I was the Chairperson of the Labour Committee on Palestine and Labour Movement Campaign for Palestine Jeremy Corbyn was a regular speaker at our fringe meetings at Labour Party conference. …
Read MoreDefend Ezra Nawi – an Israeli pacifist and Campaigner for Palestinian Rights
Palestinians in Bi’ilin march in support of a Jewish comrade Ezra Nawi at Susiya village which the army intended to demolish It comes to something when Palestinians take to the streets to demonstrate in favour of an Israeli Jew, but that is what has happened in the West Bank village of Bi’ilin. But it demolishes the…
Read MoreIsraeli Soldiers Enjoy a Day’s Shooting
Here you can see the reality of the fiction that Israeli soldiers only shoot when their lives are in danger. Palestinian teenagers throwing stones are targeted by Israeli snipers who thoroughly enjoy the occasion.
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