Posts by Tony Greenstein
When Jews are Tortured the Zionist Right Throws Stones and Protests – but it is Silent over the Torture of Palestinians
Elisha Odess, one of the suspected killers of Dawabshe family. Caption: “We only have the Lord Blessed be He. We only fear Him.” Shorts The Times of Israel reports that those suspect of the firebombing of the Dawabshe family in the West Bank village of Duma, three of whom died as a result, are being…
Read MoreFree Kaya NOW – The Canine Hero of the Palestinian Revolution – from Adminstrative Detention
Bibi’s Dog Achieves More with One Bite than Mahmoud Abbas (Another Dumb Mutt) Ever Will Jewish Chronicle 18.10.15. Kaya, the pet dog of Benjamin Netanyahu, has been put in Administrative Detention (they call it quarantine but we know what means) for 10 days. There are great fears for her safety given the record of the…
Read MoreGrovel Dead – Good Riddance to a Man without a Single Redeeming Feature
Janner’s Death Cheats his Victims of Justice It’s normal to be kind to the departed of this world, even if you couldn’t stand the sight of them whilst they were alive. Such are the accepted proprieties of capitalism. This was why the BBC and bourgeois opinion was so horrified when people celebrated Thatcher’s demise and…
Read MoreThe ‘Only Democracy in the Middle East’ Steps Up Hate Campaign Against Breaking the Silence & Israeli Human Rights Organisations
As the Israeli state makes giant strides from a Jewish state to a Jewish Police State, so left-wing Israelis demonstrate in Tel Aviv. There is no doubt that the Israeli left, the anti-war left, is extremely isolated today. When the Israeli Labour Party/Zionist Union leader, Isaac Hertzog, asked Benjamin Netanyahu to condemn incitement and threats…
Read MoreWhen Jews Supported a Boycott Campaign
Comparisons between the Boycott of Israel and the Boycott of Nazi Germany In 1933 the Zionist Movement’s Trade Agreement (Haavarah) Betrayed German Jews In 2005 dozens of Palestinian organisations called for the implementation of a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. A year later the Boycott took off in Britain when the Association of University Teachers,…
Read MoreThe Israeli Communist Party (Maki):
I am posting this important analysis of Israel’s Communist Party (Maki) by a veteran Israeli anti-Zionist Tikva Honig-Parnass. The Israeli Communist Party, in the form of its electoral front Hadash, has 5 out of the 13 seats of the Jewish-Arab Joint List in the Knesset. This is an important article because Maki is a major…
Read MorePoland’s New anti-Semitic Government – Israel Keeps Silent
Although Poland’s Michal Kaminski has now deserted Law & Justice for the right-wing Civic Platform party, the differences between the two parties are marginal. Both oppose abortion and the right of women to control their own bodies, both are homophobic and anti-gay rights, both oppose same sex marriages, euthenasia and the decriminalisation of soft drugs. Both…
Read MoreAbbas Takes Exception to Satirical Depiction of the PA’s Relationship to Israel
It would seem that the Prison Authority of the West Bank, presided over by the Quisling Abbas, has taken exception to the cartoons of the ‘virulently anti-Israel’ (according to The Times of Israel) Baha Yassin. Clearly his cartoons depicting the relationship of the PA with Israel, in sexual terms, were too close for comfort. In…
Read MoreThe Fake Fight Against Jihadism
At this time when the United States and its satellites in Europe are embarking on new foreign adventures in Syria it is useful to remind oneself of the history of such interventions. Today it is the battle against Jihadism and ISIS. Yesterday the Jihadists were our friends in the war against the Soviet Union. Our…
Read MoreIsraeli Military Court Gaols Khalida Jarrar, an elected Palestinian parliamentarian
If you want to know why Israel is not, contrary to its claims, a democracy, then the case of Khalida Jarrar says it all. Khalida, a secular and left-wing Palestinian, a member of the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is an elected member of the Palestinian legislative assembly. But she is a…
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